Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Write down specific criteria for evaluating a documentary

There are some specific criteria for evaluating a documentary.
1. Is the documentary use a objective view to talk about this topic issue?

2. Are there many emotional words using in this documentary?

3. Do many people can easy follow the issue talking in the documentary, and can understand what is the main idea the author want to bring to us?

4. Do the documentary have any entertainment function?

5. After watching the documentary, can it give you some motivation to do something you never done before?

First, due to the upper questions list, the Bowling for Columbine is using a subjective view to film this documentary. Beacuse the director, Michael Moore, interviewed many different people including the victims in the Columbine and other people whom they were affected by other relevant violence events.

Second, the director use many emotional ways to evoke the commiseration in people's deepth heart. Therefore, after the audience watching this documentary, they would always feel want to something serious to prevent such direful thing happened again.

Third, this documentary shows very vlear actions and clues to audiences. In hence, the audiences are not easily miss the concept of main issue in this documentary.

Forth, this documentary is talking about a very serious issue in the U.S. society. Therefore, this is no entertainment function in this documentary.

Fifth, I think after all the audiences watching this documentary, the film must evoke some ideas from your mind. And which can help you to do something different that you never thought before or never done before to improve this society become less violence. At the end, this society will become full of love not violent.

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