Who needs Netflix? Docos and chill!By Sabrina Delgado I snuggle in for another movie night as the buttery smell of palm oil free popcorn wafts through the room. But I’m not waiting for the newest blockbuster to load, I’m waiting for an acclaimed documentary that has snagged my interest. No longer are they stifling classroom videos from the ‘golden ages’, but intriguing films that are enjoyed by many. Including me. As a twenty-year-old who can’t afford to travel, I have taken a liking to documentaries that allow me be anywhere in the world, even if it’s just for an hour or so. Years of Living Dangerously (2014), produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows the scary reality of climate change and how the …show more content…
Thanks to oceanographer Ben McCartney, I know now that to find the perfect wave one must know the “length, durations and speed of winds associated with a storm developing over open ocean.” Now all you need is a surfboard and bom.gov.au and you’re ready to let loose. Not only did I learn the science behind surfing, but also the life-threatening risk that Visser was putting himself into by attempting to ride a 10-meter wave at the perilous location of Jaws. The suspenseful non-diegetic sound alerted me to the dangers of the deep as Visser endeavoured in his first deep diving experience. The enthralling music played with my thoughts as I sat en the edge of my seat, biting my nails. This was truly a moment in surfing history. In this digital age of likes, comments and snaps, it’s extremely easy to lose focus on things that are right in front of you. Although, unlike many people of my generation, I don’t immediately turn my nose up at anything old, dusty or dull. In fact, I share a love for an old but intriguing man by the name of David Attenborough. In his newest documentary, David Attenborough: Natural History Museum Alive (2014), directed by Dan Smith, the fascinating facts of both creatures long gone and the museum itself and its development are exposed. With extinct animals brought to life through the magic of CGI, it felt more like an adventure movie than a documentary. I
Now, I never really engage myself with documentaries as they have the tendency to be monotonous and put me to sleep rather than capture any sort of my
The filmmaker uses evidence and Rhetorical appeals in several ways to support the claim that global warming poses a real threat. Imagine the world being like the movie wall-e.
The film demonstrates how the earth is being affected by global warming by the simple fact the temperature has risen more now than in the past 10,000 years. They have also found hard evidence that the warming is not only real, its accelerating. Droughts are increasing in the American Southwest, sea levels are rising in places like Louisiana and Bangladesh, tropical diseases are spreading north, and there is an increased frequency of extreme weather from Florida to France. The climate
Society tends to associate propaganda films with issues such as Nazi Germany and their film messages for their country; however, it is also possible for small independent companies, groups of like-minded people and individuals to use the media of film to incorporate messages for our society (The Independent, 2010). These messages are often in relation to changes that individuals should make in order to improve the standards by which they live their lives and changes to everyday habits that will benefit the individual, the individual’s family, a group of individuals or even a single person (Barnhisel and Turner, 2010).
Today we discuss a specific documentary and the social issues involved with it. Joining me today is Warrick Digovich, an animal cruelty media analyst activist who is fighting for the rights of animals. Today, Warrick be investigating the influences of documentaries in moulding social change and social difference. With an attracting illumination
In Mr. Holdeman’s biology 1 class we watched Discovery’s Racing Extinction. In the film a group of artists put together a “light show” on buildings displaying images of endangered creatures to show what we are doing to our world. Many creatures are being killed for our own selfishness and carelessness, these beautiful animals have living on this earth for longer and contribute greatly to the world around us. The film displays what is actually happening in the world around us and what we can do to help.
There are about 15 major sites in the world for big waves surfing that are the most amazing and challenging for a professional surfer. In this article, I chose to present three of them in what I consider the most incredible and life threatening experience.
In the background I can hear the TV playing an educational documentary that my dad has carefully selected on Netflix after browsing through the documentary category looking at all of his options. Despite the fact that that category is familiar grounds for my dad as he performs the same search nearly every night, he loyally looks through the 75 titles again so as not to exclude any newcomers. He’s in the middle of eating dinner as he just returned from a busy day at work, and has likewise equipped himself for the
Due to modern-day industrial activities, environmental issues continue to occur including, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. Unfortunately, however, for the past decade scientists have been warning the public of climate change but have hardly made any progress to express the urgency of the matter, all of which was discussed in the 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Subsequently, the world has fallen short on implementing serious industrial change. On the contrary, the trailer for “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”, published by Paramount Pictures under the direction of Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, effectively convinces its audience to watch the documentary by conveying the devastating effects of
His focus is on Timothy Treadwell, a man who had completely devoted his life to grizzly bears. Treadwell would leave civilization every summer for 13 years ‘alone’ and eventually would be killed by one of his fellow bears in 2003. The core to this documentary may be correlated to man’s individualism and connection to the beauty of nature. With many intervening themes Herzog creates a masterpiece that allows the viewers to truly understand Treadwell’s questionable
You can learn from his passion and enthusiasm. If you have a passion you want to pursue, you can take inspiration from David Attenborough and learn from how he managed to do what he has done. I think that David Attenborough has really changed the world in several ways. He has been able to share so many facts about wildlife through his documentaries and shows. He changed the way Animal Planet works entirely by bringing the cameras out to the animal’s habitat and showing how they really act out in the wild instead of one that grew up in captivity. He has educated so many people across the world about wildlife, which I really think that it is important to at least know a little bit about it. I think that David Attenborough changed the world for the
2:55 friday afternoon, I took a deep breath as my stomach turned inside itself as if doing somersaults over and over. I sat there waiting for the interview call from Connor. Conor McMurdo, A highschool graduate now at Cal Poly, offered to to help me on my project. I had never met him before; however, he was recommended by my english teacher for doing his senior project on making his own surfboard. Interviewing someone you have never met is always a little nerve racking. My stomach felt these first time jitters as I picked up the phone to call Connor.
For this field experience I decided to get out of my comfort zone and give up Netflix for four days. I choose Netflix because it is something that I watch everyday. I do not have cable in my room so I always turn on Netflix when I am cleaning, doing homework, about to fall asleep or any daily activity. It is always on and playing in the background of my life. I tend to only watch one show in repeat, Friends. I was excited to start this little experiment to see how addicted I truly was to Netflix.
For the first fifty years, filmed images of nature documentary were perceived as a simple expansion of human vision, a world not visible to the audience allowing them experience the pleasure through the act of visualization in moving images. Soon after the end of World War II, Walt Disney produced a hugely successful series True-Life Adventures in which nature in the continental United States was depicted. The style Disney influenced virtually every wildlife film made for theatrical release or television in the next twenty years. The influence of human civilization on the natural environment was not an agenda until the end of 1960s when the arrival of a new ecological movement in the political landscape leading to the concept of ‘Gaia hypothesis’,
Netflix and chill anybody? Find a movie in an instant with the website Instantwatcher.com. It might not be as ecstatically pleasing as others, but it gets the job done. According to Janet Murray a website is well designed if the medium used incorporates good inscription, transmission, and representation.