visual medium- schimpf

A documentary film would be a good visual medium as my next step in this rhetoric project, because as I said in my MWA4 paper, I would have liked to make my video project a lot longer. Documentaries are informative and factual reports, so I would decide to make a documentary in order to encourage a change in the dog adoption system. The format of my documentary would have a very similar format to the video multimodal project that I turned for this class. I would start off with clips of dogs and show the happiness that they bring. Then I would explain the current options for adopting a dog into your family. Common examples are buying from a breeder, rescuing from a shelter, or buying from a pet store. The next part of my documentary would be all about puppy mills and why they need to be shut down. My film would explain the pros and cons of each of the methods, and explain how (and if) they’re related to puppy mills. Then I would want to explain that for the greater good of dogs, the best option for adoption is rescue. In order to put an end to puppy mills and dog cruelty, we have to start by encouraging rescue and diminishing the support for breeders and pet stores. Each of these factors to this documentary are extremely important in order to make the right point, and each argument would need quite a bit of time. I think making a documentary would be an impractical visual medium for me. This medium is not practical for my skill, resources, or ability for a few reasons. First, creating a movie is a huge production, and I would need a lot of money to do so. I have only ever used iMovie, so producing and editing a movie is out of my ability with regards to skill, on top of not having enough funding to hire someone to help. I also just don’t have time for a project like that.