Thursday, 23 January 2014

Conventions of documentary - bowling for columbine ( notes )

MICHAEL MOORE

Interviews
footage
VT
news
bowling for columbine
racism
fear
stupidity
guns
gangs
crime going down
fear of crime rising
tragedies
shootings
low wage jobs for single mothers
6  year old shooting of kayla
research
9/11
feeling safe
requesting to stop selling bullets and guns
cinematography
sound
editing
mise en scene
narrative - issues, facts and information
strange opening - footage from another film (found footage)
using humour - taking the Mick
repetition
terrorism
forces you to make links between things that you wouldn't usually see - connections
linking a woman holding a gun - combined with statue of liberty
threads of stories
all coming together by the end of the documentary
linking together
'OPEN A BANK AND WELL GIVE YOU A GUN'
normal in USA
opinions
biased
using facts to show his opinion
balanced
unbalanced
no good things about guns
guns/knives?
alcohol
fags
society's attitude
Canada's news wasn't broadcasted that much about guns but they all had them.
media.

why did they do it? why did they go bowling before they killed 13 people?
voice over - linking everything together
murder in columbine
gun ownership -
psychotic
influence of the media
racism
fear
'the other'
ignorance
CONFLICT
big money for a lot of people - making guns, security reasons
making money from fear
capitalism
statistics of crime going down but the fear is going up.
crimes involving guns are normalised
we are shocked but wouldn't be in america
american values
biased



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