Bra Boys Essay

A documentary demonstrates an interpretation of the truth by attempting to persuade an audience to side with the makers to endorse their interpretations of issues and events. In the instance Bra boys; Blood is thicker then water, directed by Sunny Abberton, the Bra Boys gang is viewed as a imitation of a prodigious brotherhood gang of surfers that are victims from occurrences and backgrounds opposed to a gang that dispute with the law by an act of violence. The Bra Boys have interpreted issues and events by emphasizing the importance of family, belonging, brotherhood and multiculturalism. The use of presenting constructed footage and personal interviews endorses viewers to see the Bra Boys from a positive light, boys who are role models to

Firstly, it is important to understand how the documentary form is best suited to illustrate the film’s theme. In order to do this, one must have an overview of the documentary style of filmmaking. Documentaries concern themselves with the “exploration of

While the absence of a narrator may allow viewers to establish their judgment, there are hints of subjective material within the film. The opening of the film immediately sets the possibility of bias in place as it opens up with a quote from a young Indigenous child telling the audience about how the ‘tall man’, who is later revealed to be Hurley, is “tall, ugly, fat and stinky” and how it’s necessary to avoid him. Instantly, this starts to position the audience in a certain direction to coincide with the documentary’s stance on the incident.

After the release of the record breaking Australian documentary Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water, there have been a lot of conflicting feelings about the controversial gang, whether they are upstanding members of society who are misunderstood or are violent thugs.

Analyse the representation of a race, class, gender (or other roles in society) in two feature films or television dramas you have studied.

In Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni’s essay “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” they put forward the central argument that film is a commercial product in the capitalist system and therefore also the unconscious instrument of the dominant ideology which produces it. In opposition to the classic film theory that applauds camera as an impartial device to reproduce reality, they argue that what the camera reproduces is merely a refraction of the prevailing ideology. Therefore, the primary and political task for filmmakers is to disrupt this replication of the world as self-evident and the function of film criticism is to identify and evaluate that politics. Comolli and Narboni then suggest seven categories of films confronting ideology in different ways, among which the second category resists the prevailing ideology on two levels. Films of this group not only overtly deal with political contents in order to “attack their ideological assimilation” (Comolli and Narboni 483), but also achieve their goal through breaking down the conventional way of depicting reality.

A documentary is a genre of film that provides a factual report on a particular story, viewpoint, message or experience. In this essay, two documentaries, Bowling for columbine by Michael Moore and Made in Bangladesh by CBC news will be explored to show how persuasive techniques are used to make an audience feel a particular way.

Ensuring that the cast of a documentary are real people and not actors is also a technique that The Cove incorporates to create a sense of realism. The entire cast of The Cove are established activists who were well known prior to the film for the work they have contributed towards marine protection in organizations such as ‘The Ocean Preservation Society’ and ‘The Sea Sheppard Conservation Society’. Short clips of Ric O’Barry’s history with Flipper the dolphin, and news clips concerning his several arrests were displayed various times during the documentary. Moreover, the featuring of established politicians such as Japan’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) delegate, Joji Morishita and Japan 's Fisheries Agency Hideki Moronuki, assists in visually showing the audience that the cast and featured people are not actors, and have been working in their current field for years. These codes and conventions of naturalistic aesthetics concerning content, constructs a sense of realism due to the information and footage presented being filmed from ‘the real world’.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s compelling documentary, Blackfish, tells the story of former SeaWorld trainer, Dawn Brancheau, and her tragic death. The film focuses on exposing the truths about working at SeaWorld, and the inhumane treatment of the Orca’s that live there. It successfully appeals to logos by conducting interviews with former SeaWorld trainers while they explain firsthand the working conditions, training requirements and living conditions of the whales. Interviews, catastrophic death stories, court cases and eyewitness accounts are all used as persuasive devices and logical support. Moreover, pathos heavily influences almost every aspect of the film due to the filmmakers’ music choice and strategically placed footage clips. Blackfish also sheds light on the sequence of events that led up to the

When the documentary was produced, media exposure was limited to private and expensive mediums such as television, movies and radio. These outlets were plagued with marketing agendas designed to sell products under the guise of authentic music and entertainment. Formerly non-existent cultural archetypes such as the

In “Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History” the audience discovers Hurley’s cowardly side when Nasht portrays Hurley neglecting his family. This discovery is made influential in the film as Nasht presents it through in an interview with Hurley’s twin daughters, making the information presented both personal and confronting. The Mise-en-scene in these interviews is a family home, but the background is darkened to symbolise the lack of a complete family home environment, making the audience empathetic towards the daughters. This new perspective challenges the heroic view that had been created about Hurley in the opening of the documentary and complicates how the audience now perceive

The documentary “Swimming South” premiered on 29 January 2017, would have sent a shock through many of the viewers of channel 9’s weekly 60 minutes program. As it describes a threat that could cost the Australian tourism industry billions, the Irukandji jellyfish. The documentary makes the jellyfish out to be an alien type creature, doing well to capture the viewers’ attention on the matter, specifically showing examples of the deadliness of the jellyfish to provide fear in the minds of people.

The documentary “Swimming South” which premiered on 29 January 2017, would have sent a shock through many of the viewers of channel 9’s weekly 60 minutes program. As it describes a threat that could cost the Australian tourism industry billions and even have the potential to kill, it is called the Irukandji jellyfish. Throughout the documentary 60 minutes has cleverly depicted the jellyfish to be a lethal killer, to really gain the audiences focus while then informing viewers of the damage this animal can do to not only us but to are whole economy. With various techniques being used to the capture viewers’ attention on the topic such as language, camera techniques and archival footage combining well together to make a well presented and informative

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The popular culture particularly visual media affects our opions and attitude towards race and racial minorities group. our assumptions about race and racial minorities are both successeded and reflected in the streotypes presented by the visual media. i strongly believe in the George Gebners scientific examintaiton of televison that how we perceive ourselves and how we view those around us are affected by what we see on television. Visual media has such a heavy impact on us that even though they present a grossly distorted picture of the real world. people tend to accept more readily than reality itslef. the popular culture deals with symbolic realm of social life, the image which it creates, represents