Sharks, an animal that has survived multiple stages of extinction and surprisingly an extremely shy animal. The documentary Sharkwater by Rob Stewart is an extremely eye opening movie. The documentary primarily takes place in the Galapagos and the Cocos Island. During this video Rob shows the audience things that don’t get talked about on the news like shark attacks do. After watching the documentary I was shocked about what was happening to these animals and how big of an industry it is.
Discuss how the director of The Cove subverts expected conventions of documentary to persuade the audience to a point of view. Despite conforming to the conventions of an investigative documentary ‘The Cove’ covertly seeks to persuade viewers to a particular point of view. The film is set in the small fishing village of Taiji Japan, and features the industry based around capturing and or killing dolphins. The purpose of the film is to inform its audience of the industry and try to persuade them to become activists to stop it. Although Louie Psihoyos has used fundamental aspects of a documentary for this film, such as location shots and interviews with key people, he has diverged from a traditional documentary through the inclusion of visually confronting footage and persuasive filmic techniques.
The use of pathos and logos is essentially what Psihoyos depends on to draw in his audience and make them want to take action. By using various strategies throughout the film to make appeals to both pathos and logos, Psihoyos is able to persuade his audience to become interested in the issue and take action to end dolphin hunting in Taiji. The most prominent strategy being used throughout the whole film is definitely the appeals made to pathos, or emotions of the audience. Making appeals to pathos seems to be the most widely used strategy because the slaughter of dolphins or any animals is going to be emotional for most people, plus no one wants to see them to get hurt or put in harm’s way. There are many examples in the film from the beginning to the very end.
The sea that day is so red because it is contaminated by the blood of Sean’s dad. Also, the sea is full of blood, thanks to the capaill uisce, and that same reason is why Sean’s father is dead. If anything is to happen to Sean, the Kendrick bloodline would be extinct, or dead for good. This is how the quote, shows and symbolizes how the death of Sean Kendrick’s father is a main and important event in the story The Scorpio Races. Finally, one last example of
Chapter three mainly focused on the filming of a movie, this movie was about shark attacks and could be related to the movie “Jaws”. I found this chapter interesting because you see how different growing up in Hawaii in the 1950’s was. Some differences that I have noticed are that you had less supervision and generally there was a lot more you were able to do. For example now a days there would be no way any sane parent would let their eight or nine year old child out on a motorboat by themselves to go try to catch a shark. Also some other difference I noticed was that technology even for that time frame was behind.
Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
Japan’s heavy involvement in whaling throughout the twentieth century has caused quite an uproar over the years due to the fact that over 1.5 million whales have been slaughtered and are being inhumanely treated. An ABC News 24 opinion piece entitled “Saving whales: a cause worth fighting war” was written by Reese Halter in response to the ongoing debate about Japanese whaling. Using an informative and authoritative tone, Halter urges that whaling needs to be stopped in order to end the “War against Nature” and thus provide whales the ability to swim freely in the ocean without threat of extinction. The article is categorically targeted towards those with an immense interest in the concept of conservation and particularly the whales in addition to the stakeholders who comprise of politicians, environmentalists, pro and anti whaling organisations and the general public. Halter commences his article with an accusing tone that provides a background on the “war against nature” and the Sea Shepherd organisation, whilst highlighting the fact that the Institute of Cetacean Research in Japan has provided little to no credible research over the past century, despite this being their agenda for whaling.
The Navy Seals were formed on the beaches of World War 2. They were known as “frogmen” who cleared the way for invasions, but they earned most of their fame in the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War the Navy Seals weren’t used. The modern Navy Seals got created from the Iran hostage crisis, when Americas best rescue team on a mission lost eight men, seven helicopters, and a plane before they were even able to contact the militants that were in control of the us embassy in Tehran. After this happened Congress decided to form a joint command to control the Special Forces.
Jaws textual analysis There are many themes that are present in the movie Jaws. The biggest theme through the movie Jaws is the theme Man vs. Nature. This is obviously displayed through Brody wanting to keep the island safe from the shark. The head sheriff of this tourist town has a man-eating shark on the loose and wants to keep everyone out of the water until the capture the shark.
Recently after numerous attacks, the Western Australian government stated a hunt and kill policy on any shark that is a tiger, bull or great white over the size of 4 meters. For numerous reasons this should be deemed illegal by the government and stop the culling in Western Australia. Australia is home to more diverse, unique and beautiful animals than any other place on earth, and included in these animals are the three sharks that have been focused on about in the cull in Western Australia. Ever since people have been utilising beaches for swimming and surfing, there have been shark attacks. And sadly on the flip side, ever since people have been swimming/ surfing at beaches, there have been attacks on sharks.