The Documentary

Assignment #3: A Documentary AUDRIE & DAISY 1.) Who or what is the subject of the documentary? This main subject of this documentary are the sexual assaults of Audrie Potts and Daisy Coleman. The video focuses on the details of the crimes and more importantly the photos and videos that accompanied them. As we follow these families through their journeys we see the emotional toll, the stress, and the heartbreak that these cases have caused. 2.) What is the occasion? The occasion of this piece…

is manifested in her posture. When the audience sees an old women, around seventy or eighty years old alone in a house, there is a feeling of unease. Because the focus has been primarily focused on Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey throughout the documentary, the shift in the episode comes across as surprising. It seems that the show had been only showing the opinions of the family members as opposed to their everyday lives. The audience sympathizes with the helpless women as she can only wait to…

Another example of why she is a powerful teen activist is because she was inspired by the documentary, ¨The Cove¨. ¨The Cove¨ is a documentary about a vicious dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan. Ever since then, she made it her mission to put an end to harming these animals. And lastly, Ella Van Cleave is a very powerful teen activist because she created a campaign. This is because she wants make a documentary that spreads awareness about protecting aquatic species. And this campaign helps her to…

In the documentary, they interview multiple handfuls of former SeaWorld trainers and more. The goal of this is to get different stories about their experiences about SeaWorld when they first started working and how they felt about the injuries and death performed…

Night produced a sympathetic documentary about 10 innocent oil rig workers who are caught in amongst a massive storm along with the choice of the Captain on the Mermaid Vigilance a passing ship to leave the men to their death. This documentary represents the situation as it says by the title Murderous, Cowardice and heartless. As soon as the documentary starts, it opens with a re-enactment of the men clinging to the life raft to try and stay afloat. As the documentary continues there is a voice…

Marcel Mettelsiefen’s documentary “Children of Syria” tells one family’s story of surviving in Syria’s war-torn city of Aleppo. After their father is kidnapped, the family begins their journey to Germany to escape the violence in Syria and start a new life. The documentary, which debuted on the TV program “Frontline”, films the family and their experience for over three years. The hour long segment mainly focuses on the children Sara, Farah, Helen and Mohammed. Producers used multiple…

The title of the documentary is very significant because it makes a powerful argument about women in the media. The argument that this documentary makes is that women are not properly represented in the media and that they are both misrepresented and underrepresented and this is proven in numerous ways throughout the documentary. The way women, specifically women reporters, are addressed in the media is a very big problem. When they are shown in the media, people tend to attack women for things…

that is a real in a certain situation which is frequently negative. Hope is the driving force that often causes people to migrate to a different place, where they seek for new opportunities like as jobs. Moreover, there is a documentary called Farmingville and a documentary called The Overnighters that portrays the central idea of having hope and the cause of people migrating to other places to pursue the key to success.…

Leonard Cohen, Gladwell explains, is an experimental innovator, because he had worked for days, months, and even years slowly and steadily to fight to create Hallelujah. In contrast, Ed Sheeran is an example of a conceptual innovator. In a documentary called Nine Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran, filmed for MTV, Ed sheeran explains that he had been writing songs since he was young and he was influenced greatly “after [he] listened to an album by Damien Rice when [he] was about 11 or 12 years old…

Armadillo, (Mentz, 2010) is a Danish documentary that follows a platoon of soldiers as they complete a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The filmmaker follows the men and observes each personally as the war progresses. This is done through the use of camera work, graphics, editing and sound. Mentz (2010) structures the story of the documentary chronologically. This is shown by onscreen text. He begins by filming the solders preparing, their final goodbye to loved ones, time at the camp, challenges…