Bowling for Colombine Notes
• Intro
Codes and conventions of a documentary ( Voiceover, Archival footage, “real footage”, Interviews with ‘Experts’, use of text, Sound [music used, background noises], set-ups, visual coding)
The documantry being analised, what it’s about and the director (Bowling for columbine, Reasoning behind the columbine massacre and other gun related violence in the United States, Directed and narrated by Michael Moore.
• Audience and purpose
6 characteristics
Age (18-30)
Gender (Male and Female)
Race (Caucasian)
Socio economic Background (Middle class)
Hobbies and interests (Guns, movies, video games, outdoor sports)
Prupose ( to draw attention to the reasoning behind gun related crimes in the US and ways to reduce it)
1 Paragraph
• Textual analysis
1 Paragraph
• Symbolic
3 examples
• Audio wonderful world while gun violence in background happiness is a warm gun with People buying guns.
• Residents of Virgin, Utah, a town that passed a law requiring all residents to own guns.
• People firing rifles at carnivals and shooting ranges.
• Footage of Denise Ames operating a rifle.
• Footage of Carey McWilliams, a visually impaired gun enthusiast from North Dakota.
• Footage of Gary Plauche executing Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped and molested Plauche's son.
• The suicide of Budd Dwyer.
• A 1993 murder where Emilio Nuñez shot his ex-wife Maritza Martin to death during an interview on the Telemundo program Ocurrió Asi.
• The suicide of Daniel V. Jones, an AIDS/cancer patient who was protesting HMOs.
• A man who takes his shirt off and is shot during a riot
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2-3 examples
• Technical
3 examples
• Conventions
4 examples
• Persuasive
4 examples
• Conclusion
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Codes and conventions of a documentary ( Voiceover, Archival footage, “real footage”, Interviews with ‘Experts’, use of text, Sound [music used, background noises], set-ups, visual coding)
The documantry being analised, what it’s about and the director (Bowling for columbine, Reasoning behind the columbine massacre and other gun related violence in the United States, Directed and narrated by Michael Moore.
• Audience and purpose
6 characteristics
Age (18-30)
Gender (Male and Female)
Race (Caucasian)
Socio economic Background (Middle class)
Hobbies and interests (Guns, movies, video games, outdoor sports)
Prupose ( to draw attention to the reasoning behind gun related crimes in the US and ways to reduce it)
1 Paragraph
• Textual analysis
1 Paragraph
• Symbolic
3 examples
• Audio wonderful world while gun violence in background happiness is a warm gun with People buying guns.
• Residents of Virgin, Utah, a town that passed a law requiring all residents to own guns.
• People firing rifles at carnivals and shooting ranges.
• Footage of Denise Ames operating a rifle.
• Footage of Carey McWilliams, a visually impaired gun enthusiast from North Dakota.
• Footage of Gary Plauche executing Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped and molested Plauche's son.
• The suicide of Budd Dwyer.
• A 1993 murder where Emilio Nuñez shot his ex-wife Maritza Martin to death during an interview on the Telemundo program Ocurrió Asi.
• The suicide of Daniel V. Jones, an AIDS/cancer patient who was protesting HMOs.
• A man who takes his shirt off and is shot during a riot
•
2-3 examples
• Technical
3 examples
• Conventions
4 examples
• Persuasive
4 examples
• Conclusion
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