Blog 2-Manufacturing Consent

In the flim "Manufacturing Consent" Professor Chomsky describes and uses the Propaganda Model. The film uses different visual techniques to get Chomsky's point across. He uses the media in order to correctly illustrate what he is saying. The film first catches our attention by first starting off with the huge screen in the center of a mall with a person talking about what will be shown. Not only does the film use this to capture our attention , but it uses various other visual techniques such as the black and white films, old history pictures and the back and forth of different companies or products that Chomsky is talking about. I believe it uses all these different techniques because there is not one certain way to get information across to people. In order to reach everyone and different audiences, the media has to speak and appeal to the public in different ways. People take in information differently so by using visual images on screen and not just the face of professor Chomsky, then people will become more intrested. Different visual techniques will appeal to a larger audience and this film does a good way in doing just that. The media does a good job in pulling us in and keeping our attention when different visual techniques are used to keep us interested. If we see the same thing on screen we will quickly go to something else, but if the camera shows other aspects of what the film is about by showing us behind the scene things or by having Chomsky break apart everthing he is saying then it keeps us intrested. The film shows us how the media works and how it is able to communicate to different audiences.