The bridge

in my media class we looked at a documentary called the bridge. this was a very interesting documentary to watch as it shows the conventions of people taking there own lives. we watched the introduction of the documentary, then decided to have a group discussion about the opening sequence. There were some ideas from students in that they thought that it was wrong for the film maker Eric steel to film people taking there lives. however it was then discussed that this an issue that needs to be touched on and spoken about. this was helpful for out production as similar to Eric steels film making sia uses the same ideas in that her work is controversial in what she should and should not show. therefore watching this documentary then helped us further our audience research 

here is the opening sequence of the documentary on which after watching we had the discussion of the ideas of the documentary: