Bowling for Columbine and audience response
Clip
1:
In clip one the question is raising, why
isn’t bowling blamed for columbine? The last activity the children were doing
before the shooting was bowling. This is a dominate clip because it shows that
you can blame the event prior to a disaster. People around the world go bowling and that does
not mean people get influenced to shoot people. There were also clips of other
potential reasons such as heavy metal, violence video games and films. This
video
is giving the message that people are not directly influenced by violence
things. It is possible that the influence for gun crime comes from a personnel
background. Other
countries
such as the UK, Germany, France and Japan have gun crimes but, the USA has had
11,127 gun crimes (so far). People may have guns because they feel safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSlhzsE8sc
Clip
2:
This clip is an animated video on the history of
America. It shows how the people of America felt insecure about the world around them. Guns are
seen as a method of protection and people feel that they have control. This
clip shows a negotiated response to the ownership of guns. In America
people are consumed by status
and people
who do not own guns are considered weak; this is because they are seen as
unable to protect themselves. The
animation
is childish and mocks the
ownership of
guns. The clip shows
that people use guns so that they feel less stressed. They are less stressed
because the use of a guns seemed to solve their problems. Although
guns seem to solve programs, they are cause them too.
Clip
3
This clip shows an oppositional response
to the initial meaning of the director. This is the introduction to the film Bowling
for columbine, it shows Michael Moore responding to an advert in the newspaper.
The advert
was from a bank that was giving guns to people when they open an account. He is
quite vague in showing the process of obtaining a gun. It seemed like you could
just walk in, open an account and they would casually give you a gun. In
reality is that you would have to wait 6 months after the bank had done a
background check.
This is misleading to the audience because the director cut out the
middle man and did not show the whole process.
M3: You have been graded a MERIT for 6.3. You explain how media audiences respond to media products with reference to detailed illustrative examples and with generally correct use of subject terminology. To improve your grade you would need to comprehensively explain how media audiences respond to media products with elucidated examples and consistently using subject terminology correctly.
ReplyDeleteEsther you choose some really good examples here and use them to discuss each theory, your images relate to the discussion and you map out the key terminology in your writing. Well done.