20 year- old Madison Stewart, many know her as shark girl, is an underwater filmmaker and a dive master. The young Aussie grew up living on a yacht from just two years old, she has spent nearly every day of her life in the water. When she first started snorkeling, one thing grabbed her eye and that was seeing sharks in the wild, She instantly feel in love with the animal and decided to have a future being around sharks every day of her life. When she was young she didn’t once think that she would have to fight for sharks and their lives. When she returned to the Great Barrier Reef at the age on 14 years old, she had expectation’s such as seeing the same beautiful reefs and the same sharks, but what she saw and discovered changed her life forever. …show more content…
In some ways this documentary is bias because it is not showing different points of views, all it’s showing and talking about is why we shouldn’t kill sharks. But for some people especially the Japanese and Chinese eating shark is a delicacy and it their country it’s normality. In a way it’s hypocritical to ban shark meat and not to ban other meat such as chicken and cow.
Shark fin soup is a very big part of the Chinese and the Chinese think it shouldn’t be interfered with. The reason Madison is trying to ban shark meat is because, she is trying to save and sustain the amount of sharks in the ocean. Unlike maybe chickens which we have plenty of and do not need to save, plus chickens are not dangerous to our health.
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Half of the documentary is filmed underwater, which is called underwater video videography, this is used multiply times in the film to show sharks in the wild and how the are peaceful animals. Narration is used throughout the whole film. Narration is a style of storytelling, which involves using a narrator of camera and he or she is never seen. This style is mostly used in informative documentaries. Host, is a style of storytelling where you learn about the story through a guide or a host. You see this person on the camera and they take you through a story in their own words. Recreations are used twice in shark girl one was to show when she was a child and was living on the great barrier reef, and the other one was a flash back to the 1950’s to show the over fishing of sharks along the great barrier reef at this time. This technique is to show important events that have already taken place. Madison uses personal point of view, this is where she tells the story from her personal perspective and her opinion. Camera tracking shots were used when she was on a boat to go diving with the sharks in the Bahamas, a camera tracking shot is where a camera is mounted on a camera dolly, which is a wheeled platform that is pushed along rails while the picture is being taken. Extreme long shots were used on the sharks to show us emotion. A birds eye view was used on the great barrier reef to show us how beautiful
Sharks have also been subjected to medical research, games and competitions, jewellery, souvenirs and cosmetics. We need to take into consideration that sharks play a vital role in the natural world that we live in. it is imperative that we look after these majestic creatures and ensure they remain protected. We need to be aware of the dangers of sharks, swim in protected areas where there are shark nets, and do not swim after dark in the sea (especially not alone) as the sea is the sharks home. Humans should also be wearing wet suits as protection in the ocean. The sea is where they live, they swim freely and they eat – they do not particularly target humans but rather prey on food that is available to them in their habitat.
The film Sharkwater is a documentary directed and produced by Rob Stewart. Rob is an underwater photographer and a biologist that has a fascination with sharks, and their behavioral aspects. His way of studying these creatures he is able to learn about life and how to survive on this earth. This film showed the characteristics of reflexive documentary, this is because of the attention drawn into the sharks, their behaviors, and how we are affecting them. A statement that really stuck the documentary is people are taught their whole entire lives that sharks are dangerous but when you finally see it underwater your whole life can change in a flash. Rob made a very valid point as well, which is believed to be his thesis statement.
The scene utilizes long takes, point of view shots, split diopter, and the iconic Hitchcockian zolly shot to dramatize the events leading up to and subsequently, the shark attack itself. The establishing shot of the Amity Beach scene is a long take
The bull shark may be responsible for many shark attacks in the world but I believe that we have no right to kill them. Sharks are very important to animals food cycles and if the food cycles get messed up it can greatly effect the world. In fact, the bull shark is more vulnerable to human impact due to their ability to live in fresh and salt water but many sharks that are killed are for either shark fin soup or their liver oil. The sharks liver oil has many uses now but it started as a machine lubricant. Another way that sharks die is by recreational fishing. The sharks can get caught up in the fishermen's nets and eventually suffocate and die. As an environmental community, I feel like we need to inform people about shark habits and how to keep sharks safe. The water is their home and we are
Spielberg incorporates these various styles in order to show how much tension the shark brings and how focused Brody is on the beast. The audience is forced to watch from the shark’s point of view as it rips apart a little boy. The shark POV shot and the inability to even see the shark suggests that instead of a man versus nature approach, the shark is a seemingly lifeless monster that represents fear. Spielberg’s use of quick cuts, color scheme, and diegetic sound helps build tension and make the film Jaws come to
middle of paper ... ... help them to relate with the film. Home footage is used throughout the documentary, mostly of the children growing up. Archive footage is also used to break up the film a little, and to make the narrative more interesting between scenes. Valid presentation of factual information is used in the form of on-screen statistics.
The documentary Kind Hearted Woman is an excellent documentary that showcases the hardships that many Native Americans encounter on a daily basis. It is a documentary that emphasizes the many issues surrounding Native American lives. Alcoholism and sexual abuse are just two of the topics that are addressed in this documentary, thus it is evident that these two problems are significant on reservations. Robin has faced both of these issues in her life, and she truly gives us viewer hope that she and her family will surpass the hardships that face them. It is also evident that Native Americans are continually oppresses in our society, thus something must be done to prevent sexual abuse and alcoholism on reservations.
Information (sub-point): The solution to the problem of shark finning is to sign petitions and force the government to pass legislature that will ban shark finning, as well as ban the import of shark fins. In 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000 (SFPA), which “banned finning on any fishing vessel within United States territorial waters, and on all U.S.-flagged fishing vessels in international waters” (Speigel, 2011). Currently, it is also illegal to hunt sharks in many parts around the world due to various restrictions set by other government, but it is not illegal to import and sell shark fins. Finding shark fins in the US can be as easy as walking into an Asian restaurant and ordering shark fin soup. If we truly want to make a difference, and see a rise in the shark populations around the world, we need to ban the sell and trade of shark fins
To begin with, the influence of consuming shark fin is from unverifiable beliefs while this is academically proven that sharks have neurotoxins. There are many beliefs that become proven later in the later generation, but shark fin eating is yet not one of these. Conversely, instead of finding more nutrition values in sharks, a research found that shark, which some species could have 50 years or more average lifetimes, containing a large amount of poison from eating toxin-laden fish within their bodies along their lives. To illustrate, pregnant women are especially warned not to consume shark meat as mercury could cause dangerous neurological impacts on fetuses(Xu, 2013). The other types of toxin shown in a recent study by Deborah C. Mash, a researcher at the University of Miami, that 79% of shark fins high level of BMAA or Beta-methylamino-L-alanine, a harmful neurotoxin which could lead into higher risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseas...
Throughout the US, millions of POC students exposed to the traditional, rather outdated version of US History. Never do the textbooks explicitly mention and/ or explain the terrorizing, constant stripping down of others’ cultures and appropriating it into the dominant group of predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon and protestant. For many Mexican American students, they can’t relate to anything in the text, nor do they share an interest in the coursework provided. The way US history sets up doesn't teach and somehow excludes Indigenous backgrounds or for the most part was never taught in the classroom but, rather briefly mentioned in one or two paragraphs. Immigrants from diverse groups built this country yet their culture is consistently shown
As soon as the film starts, from the title sequence, these techniques are being used. The music begins very quietly and slowly. In my opinion, I get the impression that danger is on its way, and, also, it is dark, which builds up the suspense. The opening credits are written a sharp pointy writing, which is perhaps suggesting the teeth of the shark, and its capabilities.
In 2015 only 59 shark attacks have occurred around the world compared to the millions of sharks killed by humans every year. Due to these accidental shark attacks people tend to think that sharks, especially Great Whites are evil creatures with malice intentions when attacks do occur; but, on the contrary that is wrong. Sharks are not the only beautiful and unique creatures in the ocean, they also play a vital role in our ecosystem; however, due to human interference they might not be around much longer, through awareness sharks can be protected from endangerment.
Thesis: Sharks should be conserved because they are an important part of the ocean, attacks are often incidental, and human behavior influences the behavior of sharks.
This is a critique of" Roger And Me", a documentary by Michael Moore. This is a film about a city that at one time had a great economy. The working class people lived the American dream. The majority of people in this town worked at the large GM factory. The factory is what gave these people security in their middle working class home life. Life in the city of Flint was good until Roger Smith the CEO of GM decided to close the factory. This destroyed the city. Violent crime became the highest in the nation, businesses went bankrupt, people were evicted from their rented homes. There were no jobs and no opportunity. Life was so bad that Money magazine named Flint the worst place to live in the entire nation. When news of the factory closing first broke, Michael Moore a native of flint decided to search for Roger Smith and bring him to Flint.
.... It looked like its skin was so smooth and soft. Before I knew what I was doing I put my arm out an inch at a time, until I stroked the shark as it swam less than a foot away from me. I had realized instantly that it was a nurse shark, and it was very calm, which is common in nurse sharks. I noticed the light flickering above me, the other explorers were returning to the boat and I knew it was time to go back to my own familiar world. As I rose to the surface I knew that I would never forget that day, and all the new unusual creatures I saw. That day will stick with me forever, the new experience, the beauty of it all, but the thing I will remember the most is facing my fear. To actually touch one of the strange creatures that was the root of my fear was very invigorating and freeing, even if it was a harmless relative of the real the real man eaters I had feared.