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Conventions And Techniques In The Documentary Shark Girl: Madison Stewart

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SHARK GIRL "Shark Girl" is a documentary about a 19 years old girl named, Madison Stewart, who goes by the name "Shark Girl". Madison Stewart went on a journey to prove to people that sharks are not man-eater or as harmful as they are thought to be. Conventions and techniques were used in this documentary "Shark Girl' used Madisons' perspective and what she knows about sharks to help persuade the audience's perspective of sharks being the so called monsters of the sea. The three techniques I choose were; selection of details, interviews and archival footage. The documentary encourages viewers to protect sharks and not kill/harm or fish them out of their natural habitat. This is because the numbers of sharks are perishing and will affect the reefs ecosystems.nah …show more content…

The selection of detail is what type of scene is included and what is not. An example of this was when Madison Stewart was swimming and feeding hundreds of sharks, but in the clip it didn’t show attacks or interview victims, they also did show how many days they had to feed sharks to get that amount of sharks being there. This is because a documentary is constructed to make viewers accept that sharks are not man eaters or harmful at all and that they only come close to shore when people and fisherman's overfish fish. There was another scene where Madison Stewart took time to get to Woolworths to stop the sales of shark meat, seeking expert opinions from scientists about the effects of consuming shark meats. She was able to tell the audience what happened, but because the we weren't able to see the clip of the meeting the audience has to take her word for it, but if she did show a clip of it something may go wrong and the viewers may doubt her. That is the reason why the selection of details was so important in a

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