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Project #2 Unit Reflection
My writing skills have improved from completing this project by focusing more on the different ways people use film and writing to affect the audience. It has improved my way of viewing films and helped to look deeper into different emotions represented and different ways of thinking.
This project highlighted my weakness of being able to focus on multiple areas throughout one paper. I focused mainly on one appeal when I needed to focus on all three appeals.
The most stressful part of this project was choosing which Op-Doc to choose and I overcame things stress by choosing which video I could not necessarily relate to the most but I could find the most details about.
I want to be sure to remember to focus on looking at all topics of an essay instead of just focusing on one topic and being able to combine it all together to work.
Calorie Detective Response
The filmmakers purpose for making this “Calorie Detective” video is to inform people about what they are actually eating and that food places really just put any calorie count up there because it is by law, but they don’t have the completely exact count for each thing on the menu. The filmmakers audience is anyone who will watch, anyone who goes to the store and buys pre-made meals, anyone who eats fast food and anyone who eats food in general. Casey Neistat uses ethos in his film making because he shows his trustworthiness through going to actual food researchers and finding out the exact calories found in everything that is eaten by people and he also shows this through his tone. He sounds excited to inform people and show more about what is actually in our food and that food places do not always have the right calorie count. This Op-Doc is different from “Toys of War” because that filmmaker used a pathos appeal. “Toys of War” was shown as a way to get to peoples hearts and show the effects of war and how bad their country has it, while “Calorie Detective” is an informing video about the food in our country.