Feature Writing

Subject Description For Feature Writing

The Influence and Art of Documentaries:

The objective of my research is to prove the powerful influence of documentaries as well as documentaries evolution into an important art form of modern society. Proving that personal eyewitness of a subject matter through documentaries has a stronger impact on societies ethos, logos, and pathos in regards to life changing issues. First, it is important to describe the history surrounding film and how documentaries bridge the cultural gap amongst people. Then through my personal experience of creating my own documentary, I will explain that an affective documentary informs without being biased allowing the audience to choose their own opinion of the subject presented. This Feature writing will target both males and females as I will use examples of different documentaries that have assisted in shaping the modern culture. Examining both documentaries and features stories will show the relationship that each of the forms of mass media need; through a well written feature story people might want to watch a documentary. For example this article written in on NaturalNews.com eloquently describes the documentary Let Them Eat Grasswill,  (NaturalNews) There is a war being waged against real food - no, not the heavily-processed, chemical-laden garbage that fills the aisles of most major supermarkets today, but actual wholesome food grown on clean, family-scale farms across the U.S. And the upcoming documentary Let Them Eat Grasswill expose the aggressors in this widespread fight, as well as urge people like us to fight back and defend our constitutional right to choose healthy food. The film focuses on Wisconsin dairy farm Vernon Hershberger, who recently went to trial for the non-crime of providing healthy, unprocessed food to members of his private buying club. The Wisconsin State government went after Vernon, claiming he was in violation of state laws prohibiting the retail sale of food without a proper license, and tried to lock him up in prison for three years and bilk him for thousands of dollars in fines. But Vernon bravely stood his ground and fought back, and ultimately succeeded in stopping his state's bureaucratic gestapo from trampling he and his family's rights.

The author of this feature story does an excellent job at connecting the subject matter, which is the documentary, to the importance of the grassroots movement. My goal in this class is to evaluate and connect both documentaries and feature stories.

http://www.naturalnews.com/040623_Morninglane_Dairy_Vernon_Hershberger_food_freedom.html#ixzz2lWeQZYNN