Blowing for columbine use a lot more conventions than 'the lift'. the convention most was 'interview' Moore used interviews as a way to find out more about the use of guns. i think Moore used interview in order to persuade his audience into his way of viewing gun crimes.
The other conventions Moore used was archival footage and audio ... he used archival footage and audio in order to show us what happened for example the 911 call the teacher made was important because it portrays to the audiences without visual clues the emotion of the situation, maybe even allowing the audience to think of themselves as the teacher, through the distress in her voices and make us wonder what we would do in that situation. the audiences respond the way Moore wants them to by feeling shocked and scared. the archival footage used shows the teacher is still affected by what happened and will always be.
Moore also uses facts and opinions as a convention in blowing for columbine.
The lift doesn't use much conventions as much documentaries do...the most common convention used was interviews and the reason why he used this convention was to get the views and opinions of the people that live in the flat building that is being torn down, the main convention for him was interviews because that was what Mark Issac whole documentary is about.
The Lift was a different kind of documentary which is why i think it was reseal way of a documentary.
Conventions they do not share?
The convention i think both documentaries don't share is target audiences.
i think blowing for columbine was aimed at young set of target audience around the age of 18+ because i think the issues talked about in the documentary is the kind that effects teenagers and so on and it was also kind of entertaining with gun fights and the kind of music that was play.
the lift was kind of different for me, is not something you see young people watching these days, but i think it is something that an older target audience would like to see, the kind of people that are interested in watching day to day kind of documentary, which is why i think 'the lift; was targeted at more 37+ and on wards.
Another convention they dont share is facts.
blowing for columbine has a lot of facts, everything that was said there was something to back up on it but 'the lift' was different because it was based more on opinions then facts.
Archive footage is also other convention that is not shared.
'the lift' doesn't use much of conventions other then interview but blowing for columbine uses archive footage to show something that happened a 'once upon time'.
Conventions they do share?
The conventions the two documentaries have in comment would 'interview' because it was something both of the movies did a lot of and the reason for that is because of the topic at hand.
'the lift' Mark wanted to know the opinions of the people that lived in the block which was why he kept riding the lift and the only way he could get his information was to interview people which is what he did.
blowing for columbine, Moore need to find out about peoples opinions on gun crimes and he also did it through interviews.
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