CNN on Monday revealed CNN Films, a new team that will reel in and create original documentaries to broadcast on TV, web and mobile.
The films will air during prime time on CNN — which has seen viewership significantly dip in 2012 — and CNN International, with some flicks potentially hitting theaters and film festivals.
Watch the trailer below:
Up for discussion: Why might CNN want to take this step into film modes, and more specifically documentary modes? OR How is the text represented as realistic? OR What cultural concerns does it tap into and what other similar texts can you think of?
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The film above taps into a number of different cultural concerns. For example, the first thing the audience is shown are many different long shots of third world countries, for example, India, Haiti, Ethiopia, etc. This shows that one of the cultural concerns this film brings attention to is that of poverty and the limitations it can bring to such countries as these (we see a family huddled out in the rain with no shelter). Furthermore, we then get a little girl asking the question ‘Why can’t I go to school?’ to her mother, which highlights a second cultural concern, the idea of girls in education and how, in these countries, it is virtually impossible for girls to be allowed education.
Another text I can think of which is similar to this is ‘Building a Dream: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls’ which documented Oprah’s new boarding which allowed young girls in South Africa to be provided with an education.
the fact that this videos is presented itself as realistic is the fact that they speak their own language with the mother. her non verbal code – face expression- of the mum that doesn’t know what to answer to her little daughter why she can’t go to school. the fact that there are children stepping into garbage emphasizes how there are people in the world that are currently in this situation, the fact that their shoes match the situation of the dumpster with hole son them destroyed, the fact that it presents more then the character there are people in the background makes it to look realistic also the fact that there are people working emphasizes that it’s realistic. also one more thing is the children running towards school emphasizing their excitement going back to school every day running ‘trying not to miss class’. also the fact that the children where their different type of clothing according to their religion emphasizes how realistic it is. and then going to school how good it is to do something different and then going back to mum which turns their bad reaction from the beginning with the same character as the mother also attempts to emphasize how realistic it is.