Our documentary, for year 10 English, is based on owning a newly trending global toy, the Fidget Spinner. We examine closely and use opinions. The film is a mixture of a social look on reality, a project of truth, and some facts which make it a subjective documentary. We decided to title the documentary ‘Spinning Fidgets’, the name is catchy and suits the theme of Fidget Spinners. In our documentary ‘Spinning Fidgets. We attempt to persuade years 4 and 5 the issues of bringing a Fidget Spinner to school. My group used an extensive range of persuasive techniques. We deliberately created an emotional impact or response from the audience, mainly humour. I used Anecdotal evidence, very rarely, reflecting on events and telling stories of my own life. We exaggerate a lot using hyperbole. Rhetorical questions were predominantly used at the beginning at the documentary. Our film is a subjective documentary. It relies on opinions and is created to persuade you. The film has a narrator shown on camera. Just as in Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine, we interviewed people questioning their opinion on the situation on Fidget spinners. Nelson, Bryce and I used many other subjective aspects. We tried to relate accurately to Bowling for Columbine, using examples from the film. …show more content…
It was a fun experience to have to shoot your own documentary and presenting it to a younger audience. Working in a group of three was perfect. We all did an equal amount of tasks for the video. Opinions did differ at some point but were easily resolved with a classic game of rock, paper, scissors. The film Bowling for Columbine improved my understanding my understanding towards subjective documentary. Doing a subjective documentary seemed more simple than an objective documentary. Bowling for Columbine was more entertaining and related to the audience more than the objective documentary Spellbound we