Blog post #3 Environmental Documentary Flim Review

A Plastic Ocean

What makes a environmental film effective and persuasive?
Footage: What they choose to show in the film can make it very persuasive towards one side.
Targeted Audience: Whom the film marker chooses to target while producing the film can be a huge factor in making the film persuasive.

The film A Plastic Ocean was a successful in persuading the viewer to recycle and not use single use plastics. They played on the ethos side at the beginning of the film when they showed shoots of sea life struggling due to plastic. Then they made the audience aware on the large scale of the accumulative plastics that are in our oceans by stating facts. This played with the logos appeal by giving the viewer those facts. Both these appeals where very effective throughout the whole film these are just small examples of how they were used.

Thesis: A Plastic Ocean made me more aware that we are causing severe damage to our oceans by the litter of plastics.

In the movie it starts with a blue whale swimming in blue waters. It then shows the whale go by a shocking thick layer of plastic debris floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The filmmaker playing the Ethos by showing this shot first starts the movie off with the viewer already sad of mad. This shot marked the viewer exchanged and feel for the environmental cause. They can see the damage through this shot and understand the damage made by the litter of plastics. Which goes with my thesis well that the film makes the audience aware.

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