Taking The Lottery: Movie Analysis

In today’s society, people have been prone to be easily influenced by their surroundings. With the way technology has evolved, social media has taken a huge part of updating the world on problems and issues. The question that comes to mind is whether there should be a limitation to the extreme violence shown in images. The exploitation of serious war crimes and children suffering as compared to the exposure of political wrongdoings and bad publicity targeted towards individuals brings to light how much of an impact journalism and photography has. News coverage and imagery provided by journalism and photography, is able to move people’s opinions in a way that causes their attention to become focused on any given issue, ultimately forcing politicians

Taking the Lottery into example, film producers Cory Booker and Geoffrey Canada, exemplify the idea of charter schools and its impact it has in the Harlem community. The information gathered and dialogue exchanged between families and faculty of the schools is edited in a way where the producers are able to highlight the concerns regarding Harlem Charter school and how the lottery system works. Journalism in this film consists of a huge amount of research done in order to retrieve news interviews of how taxpayer’s money is being used in the school system. Photography in this film is rather translated into film and how the camera is able to glimpse into the lives of each family. The use of this editing allows the audience to see the potential in these children and what kinds of opportunities are being missed. Bringing awareness to this issue determines which officials to elect within their own communities and gives better judgement regarding their own school

A specific case regarding Apple’s worker’s safety condition, covered by Charles Duhigg, goes into the infamous electronical warehouse to oversee what kinds of people are behind putting these ingenious phones together. “The workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves” (Duhigg). Charles and the rest of his crew were able to put together images and stories of the kinds of working conditions these people endure. From ten hour days to seven days a week, some of these workers go through horrendous amounts of pain to receive less than the average salary to survive. From revealing their suppliers for the iPads and iPhones, Apple was soon to be thrown under the bus for such exposure and underwent a serious change in policy for such inhumane actions. The reception from the public caused a reform and in fear of losing clients, “more than a million workers at the Chinese factories that make Apple’s iPhones and iPads got 25 percent raises…. Working conditions vastly improved” (Duhigg). Journalists and photographers alike are able to team up, like Duhigg’s team, to reveal the back stories of the people behind the everyday things that people