A film technique which affirms documentary makers do depict their documentaries in an objective manner to sway audiences towards a particular point of view is editing. When documentary makers edit their productions, they added and cut interviews and casted in cuts from television news to form a seemingly objective film to influence the audience to believe a certain perspective. The Up Series is a documentary series directed by Paul Almond and presents children in the same and different social classes of 1960s Britain. The particular point of view is that although they may have the same or different beliefs; all of them lead totally different lives and that the future does not operate as smoothly as you wish. The first documentary of The Up Series, Seven Up!
I often found my self-pondering one fact or another forgetting that the movie was still on! To watch the Lockheed Martin manager stumble when Michael Moore ask if Columbine’s mass destruction could have been influenced by the kid’s admiration for their parent’s jobs, there in the Columbine plant, creating weapons of mass destruction. How Michael Moore continued to ponder exposure to violence, considering Asian video games, then realizing that the United States has nearly 12,000 gun-related deaths while other nations have comparatively none. Before too long I even found myself analyzing the facts themselves. Would gun-related deaths per-capa been more accurate?
TV news creates a false picture of a country under attack by rampaging criminals, and especially nonwhite criminals. The people who watch the most TV news, Americans older than 50, also happen to be the group most likely to own a gun. Only one-fifth of young Americans own a gun; one-third of over-50 Americans do. Republicans are twice as likely to own a gun as Democrats. Maybe not so coincidentally, Republicans are more likely to watch the scariest news channel of them all: Fox.
Shadin Kaskas English 100 Paez Argumentative Writing August 1, 2011 Fear? Or Just to Easy Prompt: #1 In the documentary Bowling for Columbine American filmmaker Michael Moore, Moore points out the ridiculously high amount of gun violence use in the United States. Michael Moore grew up in Michigan, “the gun lover state”. He questions why the American people have the highest rate of gun violence compared to wealthy industrialized nation. Throughout his documentary Moore addresses the roots of this violence, and explores the Oklahoma City bombing and the Columbine shooting, which he blames on fear.
eBowling for Columbine Michael Moore’s ”Bowling for columbine” is a documentary, which shows that the Americans live in a nation with millions of handguns, but that is not what bother Moore the most. What bothers him the most is that the Americans so frequently shoot them at one another. Michael Moore tells us about the National Rifle Association, and about the Columbine massacre. Horrifying security-camera footage from the massacre is being showed, and Michel Moore introduces us to two students from Columbine High school, who both lives with bullets in their bodies. What is especially fantastic in this documentary is that Michael Moore is able to shows us those scary pictures who make people think.
Through interviews moore's makes people look how he wants them to look. He makes the farmer that he interviews seem like a crazy person he dose this by puting into his mouth. It is a very different story with Marlene Manson he made his sound really smart and he didn't stop him when he was talking he just let him go and let him get his point across. This showed us that he was very careful in his interviews and thought about what he was going to say and who he was saying it to. I think that Moore used his interviews really well and they were really effective.
One of every eight Hollywood movies has a theme of rape. By the time the average American reaches the age of 18, he or she will have viewed 250,000 acts of violence, including 40,000 murders on television. Mystery writers can count on making a good living by exploring the theme that almost anyone can be driven to kill. The reach of these violent images has been greatly extended by the proliferation of electronic communications—the Internet, DVDs, even cell phones, to which the young seem addicted. What about the good people among us?
In the decade of the 1990s, the number of guns in this country increased by roughly 40 million—even while the murder rate decreased by almost 40 percent. “Accidental” gun deaths in the home decreased by almost 40 percent as well.” (www.gunowners.org.) Did you know that if they were to outlaw guns they would be violating are Constitutional right? Well they would be, in the Constitution of the United States of America states that’s, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Many people also believe that you are either for gun control or against it, but that’s not true, I believe that, yes there should be rules to owning a gun and yes they should have to be locked in some way when there are kids (0-17) around, and I also think that
Edward Valiente English 120 Professor Taylor 11/20/11 Gun Control The United States is the leader among nations in deaths caused by firearms. According to the Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV), the “gun epidemic” kills more than 30,000 and causes almost 70,000 injuries each year (para 7). Eventually, this leads to an uprising of gun control advocates, who seek to reduce crime and death rates by setting a variety of gun control legislation among the state and federal levels. Although, anti-gun control advocates believe that heavy restrictions on the access of firearms is unfair to American citizens, and a violation of the 2nd amendment in the U.S. constitution. However, evidence shows that a lower restriction on gun control ensures
Much of today’s television programming is violent. One study conducted by four schools under UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and financed by the cable industry found that of nearly 2,700 shows analyzed in a 20 week survey of 23 channels, 57% were said to contain atleast some violence. Wrestling and boxing competitions are the obvious examples but there are also shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the X-files, CSI, Law & Order, to name a few. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and the X-files can always be counted on to show violent deaths. Similarly in Law& Order, shootings, murders and rapes are constant factors of the show.