“Kon-Tiki”. It is the name of the raft that took Thor Heyerdahl and his research team on an expedition across the pacific ocean. They sailed from the coast of South America all the way to a small system of polynesian islands. Not only was this expedition recorded in writing it was also recorded on videotape and subsequently turned into a documentary which went on to win an oscar. Thor Heyerdahl took on this expedition to try and prove that the native people of South America could have settled in Polynesia.
One could compare this work to that of “Nanook of the North”, by Robert Flaherty in 1922. Although that one was silent and seemed more theatrical than scholarly in style, it still was aimed to educate a mass audience about ‘Nanook’ and his people, what their
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It executes the core essence of the expository mode of documentary film. Since it focuses on portraying reality, or the reality of a subject matter. The point of “Kontiki” is just that. It focuses of showing the reality of an anthropologist, trying to prove a hypothesis. It doesn’t really stray from that mode at all.
The filmmaker, Heyerdahl, does a good job of having documented everything in a concise manner for the narrator. All the information flowed really well, and everything seemed to be in a very neat chronological order, which is one of the elements in the expository mode of documentary cinema.
While it’s obvious that the journey actually happened, it is uncertain as to whether the sound was captured on location as well. There are several shots during the course of the film where there is sound from the actions being taken rather than just the narrator and the background music. As an example right after the narrator explains about how they get fish. There is a scene where one of the crew clubs one of the fish that landed on the deck and you can hear the thumping
Dealing with the historical record can be challenging at times, especially for scholars and historians. Most information about past events have either been lost or have been tampered with over the years. Some information has also been exaggerated or some have been too vague. The chapter, “The Indiens Was Upon Us!” from Paul E. Kopperman’s book, “Braddock at the Monongahela,” is any example of how challenging it is for scholars to deal with the historical record.
Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem and Stephen Crane's excerpt factor similar and different events throughout their stories. While Crane’s piece is written from one man’s point of view, Komunyakaa uses the collective voice of a group of soldiers. In Crane’s excerpt, it talks more about fighting, what’s happening and going on in the war. In the poem, it talks more about what the soldiers do to mask their feelings and their emotions to stay strong and not get distracted thinking of memories of family.
Hi, Wicliffe As always your writing is succinct and a pleasure to read. I think I used the words brevity and clarity to describe your previous writing assignments and they still apply. Your observation about how insulated America can be is one I have also noted. Most of us learn about cultures through the filter of movies, books, films etc.
Sound is very important in this film because of lot of sound is edited to fit in certain spots including music. During the activist movement, we can clearly hear the hurt in these people voices. Riots, shouting and clapping were all heard in most of the shots along with a voice in the background explaining exactly what is going on. Music was edited into some of the scenes to help give more of a scary or haunted approach. There was also sounds that were in scenes which sounded like someone or something huge is about to take place.
--- --- --- --- Next I’ll talk about the Section 6 of the Article I. Some parts of this section I believe was written by the Natives by smoke to the air and the People who
The film documentary Paris is Burning is a complex film portraying the lives of African American men who are gay and transgender. The characters are Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Venus Xtravaganza, Willi Ninja, Octavia St. Laurent, Freddie Pendavis, and several others. This film focuses on how these men support each other and find happiness by embracing their culture. The film uses rhetorical strategies, such as pathos to allow the audience to respond emotionally, logos because this is a documentary about the lives of real men who are rejected by society, and ethos the integrity of this film comes from the whole film crew and the director Jennie Livingston who is openly lesbian (Clark). Livingston made a film that showed the audience a community that has its own cultural norms who are outlawed by everyone but themselves.
Peace lies in tradition; a certain type of peace resides in the first scenes of Moon of the Crusted Snow. In this community one needs not a clock, for the breeze itself will whisper when it is time for supper. Over thousands of years, the Anishinaabe peoples know how to hear these words and listen. Evan knows to head home when “the chill in the air [tells] him that he should move quickly” (5). Still, on the way home he is able to observe the “deep orange glow coating the northern landscape as the sun [begins] to set, highlighting the deep evergreen of the pine and spruce trees that [tower] beyond the ridge” (5).
The summer before eleventh grade, I was given the opportunity to travel to Tsawout, a First Nations reserve situated in Vancouver Island for a week on a short-term missions trip. While assisting to run a camp for the children in the reserve, I was exposed to the mental and emotional burden for those whom had experienced, and were victims of residential schools. Many of the Tsawout Elders witnessed the death of their culture and the brutality these schools wrought on those impacted: families and survivors. The Elders expressed their outrage and past struggles with passion, laying bare their innermost thoughts and ordeals. They challenged me to open my eyes to beyond the reaches of my comfort zone.
Opening argument against John Cabot On May 20, 1497 John Cabot started a voyage with 1 ship and a crew of 18 men. This voyage was granted to him by King Henry VII of England. Little did the crew know they were sealing their fate. When the men were exploring they had to endure the awfulness of their captain, John Cabot. He talked down to them and always made them feel useless.
Zachary Jaglowski Prof. Ghen Zando-Dennis Media Literacy Cinematheque # 2 The film, Kinderblock 66: The Return to Buchenwald is not just the account of four men who returned to Buchenwald, it is the story of the 1000's of boys who were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp called Kinderblock 66. The four survivors tell the story for the 1000s of boys who survived and those who unfortunately died. It's a powerful story of the survival and humanity. I have seen movies and was taught in history class about the World War II and the Nazi's concentration camps, however, this film documentary stands alone in its telling of the children of the Holocaust and the humanity of a group of men that made a difference in their young lives. Who
Science journalist, Charles C. Mann, had successfully achieved his argumentative purpose about the “Coming of Age in the Dawnland.” Mann’s overall purpose of writing this argumentative was to show readers that there’s more to than just being called or being stereotyped as a savage- a cynical being. These beings are stereotyped into being called Indians, or Native Americans (as they are shorthand names), but they would rather be identified by their own tribe name. Charles Mann had talked about only one person in general but others as well without naming them. Mann had talked about an Indian named Tisquantum, but he, himself, does not want to be recognized as one; to be more recognized as the “first and foremost as a citizen of Patuxet,”(Mann 24).
The sound in the scene is pretty normal sound. In the beginning we hear the cold winds to establishing it is winter. When we are taken into the concert scene we hear the bustle of the stage manager trying to get everyone in place while someone is singing on stage. All these sounds we believe because it is how we think a busy concert backstage should sound like. One bit of sound that was interesting is when Lynn is called to be onstage the sound drops really low as if to await her final decision.
“The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence” (Martin O’Malley). For instance, the quote relates to the story because Rikki Tikki was fearless and audacious, but wanted to protect his human family from Nag and Nagaina. Rikki Tikki also endangered his family by taking Nagaina’s eggs which made her even angrier considering Nag died. For this reason, the theme of the fictional story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is being too audacious can endanger you and the people you love. Rikki-tikki is an audacious and inquisitive character in this story.
In 1947 a Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl with his crew went into a journey across the Pacific Ocean using the Kon-Tiki, which is a raft made of materials and technologies available to those people at that time with modern equipment. Heyerdahl wanted to prove that they are able to make that long journey by the raft itself even without the modern equipment they were having in it such as a radio, in order to prove his theory that the South Sea Islands were originally colonized by South Americans. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, and made the Kon-Tiki from native materials in a native style by Spanish conquistadores. The main body was made of balsa tree lashed together with hemp ropes. The bow was made of Pine splashboards.
The function of the Anavysos Kouros most likely as grave marker of a young warrior named Kroisos, who died in war before having children. Most Kouroi were used as grave markers, although they were not portraits of those who had died. The artwork most likely stood on top of his grave or the communal family grave. It is also thought to be a depiction of the god, Apollo. The artwork may have been used as a votive figure, giving offerings to the god Apollo.