Gardeners Of Eden Documentary Techniques

The documentary of Gardeners of Eden released on Apr 24, 2015, film directed by Anneliese Vandenberg and Austin peck reveals the real life dilemma of Africa's elephants becoming extinct, due to the fact of the worldwide ivory trade. Poaching has become very common. This documentary is persuading the audience to help spread the word about the fact that Africa's elephant species are coming to extinction. In this documentary Daphne Sheldrick talks about the challenges these elephants are facing and the story behind helping these mammals through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, raising orphaned elephant calves and reintroducing them into the wild. The film directors control what kind of rhetorical strategies, as well as dramatic aspects and

Although logos and ethos was also presented the overall affective rhetorical strategy was pathos giving out the highest emotional vibe.

Pathos was the most effective strategy used in this documentary. The reason for this being is that, the amount of emotional connection the documentary lead out to the audience was strong and clear. Daphne Sheldrick said, "You just have to think in a human way if you were that baby elephant suddenly finding itself all alone, how would you feel?" This puts the audience in a spot where they try to see themselves in the same situation as the little calves to the point where they realize how bad the situation would be if it was them instead. The little calves have to be under supervision throughout the

The reason ethos was not as successful is because there was not much to it. There was one actress in the documentary but she has only been in one other movie therefor she is not well known to the point where most people watching would recognize who she is. Actress Kristin Davis explains, "Tusks are being broken to represent that there must be a stop and we won't let people profit over their death." She did have a strong connection with the documentary to where she had a campaign trying to end poaching. In the campaign they would break the elephant tusks that were taken away from poachers, sellers and broken down. She was trying to spread the word by persuading the audience to join the campaign or help spread the word. Daphne sheldrick who is giving the first person experience, since she has been raising and reintegrating orphaned elephants into the wild. Daphne sheldrick said, "Baby elephants can die very easily because in a perfect world elephants wouldn’t have any enemies." Baby elephants are very fragile and are more likely to die if under their third birthday. It is not known for sure if they will live if they are under their third birthday they need to be careful and protected. At the orphanage they try their best to help the calves feel safe because it is hard for them to help little ones under their third birthday. Daphne gives the audience a stronger over view on the issue being