Friday's video clip

Page 361: Only pick one of the following to analzye while watching the film: You will be assigned one of the focus areas below. As you watch today’s segment from The 11th Hour, fi ll out the viewing guide with details that connect to your focus area. After fi nishing the segment, summarize your fi ndings. ETHOS AND CREDIBILITY: This fi lm relies on the testimony of experts to make its argument about sustainable development. Keep track of each person interviewed in this segment, and make notes to answer these questions. • Which interviewees seem most or least credible, and why? • What types of evidence do the most credible speakers present? • How does their appearance and delivery affect credibility? • Based on your responses, what can you conclude about how speakers make themselves credible to an audience? EVIDENCE AND PERSUASION: This segment identifi es a number of negative impacts of environmental development. Make a list of these as they are presented. • How persuasive is evidence for each environmental impact that current approaches to development must end or be changed? • How does visual information support the claims the speakers are making? • What kinds of evidence and appeals (logical explanations, emotional appeals, the ethos of the speakers) make these claims persuasive? • Based on your responses, what can you conclude about how to use visuals, documented evidence, and emotional appeals to support a claim? VALUES AND PERSPECTIVES: • What values does the fi lm support? In other words, what does the fi lm seem to support as the right way to feel about the issues? • What perspectives does it criticize? What does it say, for example, about corporate and political attitudes in our culture? • Is growth a means to an end, or an end in itself? • What perspectives are NOT presented except through the fi lter of others who disagree with them? • What biases dominate in the fi lm? Does the fi lm effectively speak to audience members who do not share those biases? Why or why not?