Documentaries.

Title:   Every Mother’s Son

1. Who made this film? What do I need to know about the filmmaker(s) to analyse this film?

Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson, who wanted to bring these issues across America, made this film.

2. What central questions is the film trying to answer?

Showing that the mothers are sick and tired of the police shooting their sons first because they are black or a different ethnic background.

3. What is this film about? What ideas, values and information are overt (clear and obvious)? Implied?

Justice for the entire mothers who have lost their son to the Police.

4. What techniques does the filmmaker use to communicate ideas?

To let the mothers share their story and how unjust it was. Photo’s, interviews and footage was used.

5. Who are the voices of authority & sources of information in this film?

The voices are the mothers’, the public and the Narrator.

6. Who might benefit from the message(s) in this film? Who might be harmed or disadvantaged by   them?

The people who this will benefit would be the mothers of America and the disadvantaged would be the Police.

7. What have I learned from this film? Why might the film’s message(s) matter to me?

This film matters to me, because it shows that I will never trust police in America if they shoot first then ask questions.

8. What kinds of actions might I take in response to this film?

I feel sorry for the mothers in this film and I would like to know why the police target them in the first place.

9. How might others see this film differently to me? Why?

They will be appalled of the police in America Justice system.

Plus Sized Wars

Documentaries.

Title:   Plus Size Wars

1. Who made this film? What do I need to know about the filmmaker(s) to analyse this film?

This film was done by Alice Bowden, who directed and produced it.

2. What central questions is the film trying to answer?

It’s showing that big girls can dress sexier then thin models and those shops to up market.

3. What is this film about? What ideas, values and information are overt (clear and obvious)? Implied?

Making plus size clothing for big people.

4. What techniques does the filmmaker use to communicate ideas?

To tell people that big girls want to dress sexy than being dull and a lot of interview with a voice over.

5. Who are the voices of authority & sources of information in this film?

The information is from the people who have taken part in doing this and sharing their opinion, which shops having their sales figures and senior staff at Evans. The voice over in this episode was Lisa Riley.

6. Who might benefit from the message(s) in this film? Who might be harmed or disadvantaged by   them?

It’s aimed to big girls and telling them that they can dress fashionable. But its down side is that it’s not healthier.

7. What have I learned from this film? Why might the film’s message(s) matter to me?

A lot, since Jacamo is for men who are big. Why not for women, but it doesn’t help being over weight or under.

8. What kinds of actions might I take in response to this film?

Well, my response is that not to be that big.

9. How might others see this film differently to me? Why?

Well people may find it useful, like big people or may find it not acceptable, like doctors and health experts.  

March of the Penguins

Documentaries.

Title:   March of the Penguins

1. Who made this film? What do I need to know about the filmmaker(s) to analyse this film?

Luc Jacquet who Directed and wrote it with Michel Fessler. Luc is a Frenchman who was born in 1967, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France and his trademark is wild-touch.

2. What central questions is the film trying to answer?

It tells how Penguins mate, feed and breed. Also telling you how they survive in the harsh cold when bringing up their little one (since the males is looking after the babies while the mother goes and feed herself, so she can feed her baby).

3. What is this film about? What ideas, values and information are overt (clear and obvious)? Implied?

Showing nature and how to raise their young in any part of the world.

4. What techniques does the filmmaker use to communicate ideas?

Expository.

5. Who are the voices of authority & sources of information in this film?

Morgan Freeman and he got his information from a script.

6. Who might benefit from the message(s) in this film? Who might be harmed or disadvantaged by   them?

This will benefit to all nature lovers and children to let them know what kind of animals live in this world and how they survive.

7. What have I learned from this film? Why might the film’s message(s) matter to me?

It tells me that penguins have a hard life, like any other creature that live in this world. They work as one and they are all equals.

8. What kinds of actions might I take in response to this film?

I already know my responsibilities toward this film.

Positive and Negative Reprsentations

Positive

The view from the window of the College shows the heart of Birmingham.

Here are some of the College's Awards, which are displayed in a cabinet for visitors to see once coming into the college.

The College is great for their Recycling of paper, cans and plastics. 

Negative

The male toilets on the second floor  of the College is not taken care of by some students, which do not flush or aim into the bowl. 

I do not know why the College library has to be the only printer that prints in colour, while the other printers in the College prints black and white. 

Students that never clean up their mess after having lunch in the College canteen.