Documentary: March of the Penguins

For our group Documentary project we decided to watch a popular documentary that is completely to do with the lives and struggles penguins go through every year to reproduce. When we first got together and started talking about what documentary we should watch, we thought about doing documentaries by Michael Moore and some one the really popular criticisms on society which would be easy to relate to the media and so on. We chose not to watch one of these documentaries because we felt like we wanted more of a challenge of relating back to the media and its influences on everyone and everyones influences on each other.

We began by watching the film and discussing it a little bit afterwards about what is was about and such, then we took a break and went for dinner to sort of gather our thoughts and then return to the discussion after. So we came back from dinner heads held high to each give our opinions on how we each thought a group of penguins reproducing each year could possibly relate to the media. As everyone knows, the media is one of the biggest influences and factors in changing peoples opinions with or without them even knowing it. When I watched this documentary I began to think about how easy it is for peoples opinions to be changed, and i began to wonder whether mine had been changed. I began to think about how the media has changed our thoughts to think that the only really important things in life are celebrities lives, making money, and how much trouble Brittany Spears is getting in each week. This film made me really think back to what life used to be like when there was no forms of communication for the media. When everyone sat at the dinner table and had there dog sitting beside them (bingo-fallawfall) and they each told each other about their days at work, and everyone just had a good old conversation. Now from what I can see, and what i know most of my friends and my families do is just sit around the tv with their food in their hands, and watch an episode of family guy or some other family oriented tv show that of course has media's advertising all over it.

This film, as you can see inspires a lot of thought about how a group of penguins each year deals with the cold and meanwhile no one cares about them even though they are still God's creatures just like us and just as important as us. Yet, we being the supreme being (movie: the fifth element) are changing rapidly and beginning to simply forget about the rest of the world; which to me (being in image arts) is extremely important to keep thinking about as they do have effects on us we cannot even understand.