1. How was selection of detail used to position you?
- The documentary BLM uses footage of only white cops shooting
black American citizens, to give the impression to the viewer that black people are the only ones being shot by police in America. They leave out/ never recognise footage of white people getting shot by cops. - The specific selection of detail is used to make the viewer have more sympathy and resent for the black community.
2. How were the codes and conventions in the documentary
used to position you? - Graphically re-enactments of black murder cases are used to give the viewer a bias and possibly over exaggerated version of the murders of black people. - Interviews with official BLM organisers and leaders, used to educate the viewer and try to position them in understanding why the movement exists. - Music is used to represent the black culture in America and position the viewer into unknown territory and to make it cooler/more appealing to the audience about the black communitys cultures.
3. What were the values and attitudes of two of the people
involved in the documentary? (Black Lives Matter) - The Catholic Priest helping the black community has an understanding that it was his duty to help the teenagers get off the streets and into anything they could (basketball). He believed it was the right thing by helping the young Black youth into sports and school, he saw the black community as a minority and oppressed by the white America. -