Analysis of Media genres
Travelers, family members, children and adults worldwide are the intended audience members for this video. The audience is aware that there is a drug war in Mexico and they want to know the affects it has had over the children of Mexico. The audience will spend one minute and twelve seconds observing the video. The purpose was definitely to inform everyone with what has been going on in Mexico so they can be aware. The style the video carries is common and easily perceivable by not only adults, but children as well. The video has a strong Mexican feel to it and the language is split into two; English and Spanish. Most of what is being said is subtitled down below in English until it gets to the end which is unsatisfying. It should carry a certain form throughout the entire video. The only vocabulary that identifies to be specialized was La Familia Cartel and the Zetas taken from the article. The only feature distinct enough to become noted would be the title of the video. The title: Mexican Drug War How War Effects the Children of Mexico is bold and big to capture attention. All of the references gathered from both genres strongly present validation in relation to Ethos through their titles and first-hand experiences.The video takes things (emotion wise) a bit further by presenting an actual visual of children having to lie on their stomachs as a safety response to the bullets passing by right outside their classroom. The video induces more of a disturbance as the children are seen without emotion as they lay on the ground for cover. The video on the other hand introduces common residents into the video such as Nadelis Andalis (middle school teacher), Magali Saucedo (middle school student), and Fernando Aguilar (middle school student). The video doesn’t really carry a precise structure. It jumps from one seen to the next without prior advising. There are no limitations placed on the information because of the genre. The video expresses exactly what it needs to freely. The structure of the video is common and it facilitates its purpose by helping audience visualize what is really going on in the Mexican drug war.
The audience is aware that there is a drug war in Mexico and they want to know the affects it has had over the children of Mexico. The audience will spend about five to six minutes reading the article. The purpose was definitely to inform everyone with what has been going on in Mexico so they can be aware. The style in the article is formal and professional in the sense that it does in fact includes the professions of everyone that gave supporting information. The language presented in the article seems Americanized knowing that some quotes were taken from Mexicans making the Spanish text converted into English. The only vocabulary that identifies to be specialized was La Familia Cartel and the Zetas taken from the article. The only feature distinct enough to become noted would be the title of the article. The title: Mexican Drug Cartels Targeting and Killing Children is bold and big to capture attention. All of the references gathered from both genres strongly present validation in relation to Ethos through their titles and first-hand experiences. The article provides many occurrences that involve innocent children being killed by the cartel. Both authors, Ann-Marie O’Conner and William Booth’s recent work involves the violence and instability created by drug trafficking and the fight against it; William Booth being a former bureau chief in Mexico, Miami and Los Angeles. The contributors to the article are Juan Martinez Perez (the director of Child Rights Network in Mexico), Martin Garcia Aviles (a federal congressman from the Party of the Democratic Revolution from the state of Michoacan), Marcela Turati (author of “Crossfire,” a new book on the killings of civilians in Mexico’s drug war), Bruce Bagley (an expert in the drug trade at the University of Miami), and Michele Leonhart (head of the Drug Enforcement Administration). The article displays a strongly bold title and two pictures of Mexican children on the top, preceded with short paragraphs that get straight to the point of what they are trying to share with the audience. Since the article is found online, it also has some irksome ads from different directions that carry a significant amount of irrelevance to the article topic. Does it have more freedom to express what it needs to because of the genre? There are no limitations placed on the information because of the genre. The article expresses exactly what it needs to freely. The basic structure of the article facilitates its purpose by feeding the readers with information of what is really going on in the Mexican drug war.
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