UNIT 31: SOCIAL ACTION SUMMER HW

Documentary 1:

“Student Suicide/BBC” 

The main purpose of this documentary  is to specifically raise awareness about suicide, being something that ends a young person’s life, and raises the audience’s awareness about understanding the experiences the families and friends of these students as well as the stories and how it could potentially be stopped. As the BBC is a media company that is completely exclusive to the UK this documentary is reaching a national audience, however due to the availability it has on the internet due to larger platforms such as YouTube, it allows for a more global audience as it becomes more available thanks to the internet being easily accessible. In terms of any techniques used,

The producer  uses an interview technique with people that had a close relation with the victims, to give the audience a feeling of what life after suicide is like capturing the feeling of what people go through and potentially telling the audience that there’s pain in the interviewee’s minds. The use of music is used to build up tension, and also to express the sadness that’s expressed within each of the stories. By using stories from actual family members as well as friends, we can see the emotion and connection that the family’s and the victim’s friends all had making us all feel sympathetic and somewhat in their shoes. Using                           archival footage to show the past and what these people were like giving the audience an idea of who they were, furthermore, voice-overs were also utilised to give off forms of narration and help shape the story in a better light for the audience.

Documentary 2- “Eyes of a child”

The main purpose of this documentary is to spread the word of poverty to the world as a social issue, that needs to be stopped and taken care of to do so the story is done and told from the perspective of a young child to give the audience more of a sympathetic feeling towards the child. In terms of any techniques that the producers use with the documentary, they like the aforementioned documentary have conducted interviews with these children that have different stories, regardless of their background and had them speak about their thoughts on their lives. Furthermore, the use of narration at the beginning starts with a very powerful first few words to get inside the viewer’s head and reel them in understanding what this documentary is about. This particular documentary is set in the UK however as it’s been distributed by a non-British company on a world wide platform such as YouTube, then this means that the documentary is available worldwide, meaning that a wider variety of audiences can watch into this documentary.

Documentary 3- 

Hungrybox: Toxicity & Retirement 

The main purpose here is to get people to realise that people considered celebrities can even be bullied or receive bad reception and in this particular documentary, Melee player Juan “Hungrybox” Dibiedma talks about his story and how he received bad press from the smash community overall and that it shows the audience that fame isn’t everything and that everyone can be seen as a villain or depicted as someone that they’re not. This also shows that no matter what background anyone’s from they're still able to achieve their dreams. This documentary is mainly available to a world wide audience as it’s been published on Youtube which is a world available platform that has amazing accessibility allowing anyone with a good internet connection to watch. Producers would use techniques such as a direct  interview segment with the players themselves, as well as a montage to get an idea of who the documentary is about essentially giving exposition of the player to the audience.