Video game violence: The controversy

George Allan

In preparation of making our own documentaries we watched a variety of documentary types so that we could gain knowledge of all the different documentary types (Expository, observational. So that when it came to picking which type of documentary we wanted to do would be an easier process.

We watched Undefeated and Grizzly man, which are both observatory documentary this is where the subject matter is filmed with little intervening so that the events unfold without change. Another documentary that we have watched is Blackfish an expository documentary, this is where the documentary is set out to expose the subject and build and argument around the subject for example in Blackfish it exposes to the people how the animals were being miss treated. In supersize me it was to show how eating Mc Donald's daily can lead to be obese.

We were required to make a 5 minute documentary on a subject of our choice. I chose to make my documentary on video games and the violence that they ‘cause’ people to portray. Within the documentary we had to use many of the codes and conventions of documentaries. For example interviews, achieve footage and Narration. Not only did we have to make a documentary we also had to make a newspaper and radio advert in which we would use to help advertise our documentaries to the general public.