The cruel cut

Personally I feel the documentary was very effective and informative as it took the extra step in order to get the message across to the public, even if that meant using graphic imagery. This was able to shock the audience which encouraged them to make a change and join the campaign.

The cruel cut is a documentary that focuses on FGM (Female genital mutilation) occurring in the UK, at the beginning of the documentary the narrator, Leyla is speaking about her experience with FGM and the way in which it has effected her life, she explains how this has motivated her to take action to put a stop to FGM once and for all. We see her start a journey of campaign where she and a group of friends set up a tent at southbank and bring in the public to introduce them to what FGM is and also show them quite raw images and video footage, to show that this is a real issue that is happening all around them. Leyla also questions the men in her community to find out what they actually know about FGM and wether they agree with it, by introducing this issue to the British public she was able to prove that everyone agreed that this practice was wrong and she gained a large group of people who also joined her campaign, this gained major interest from the media resulting in Leyla's campaign hitting headlines.
She wanted to get a law enforced against the practice of FGM on women and girls in the Uk to ensure their safety, in order to even have the members of parliament discuss this she would need 100,000 people to sign her petition.

 This documentary is a current affairs/Social action documentary as it addresses an issue that are currently happening in the Uk.
There are many interviews with both the victims and the public who voice their opinions on FGM and gives us an insight as to what the general public think of the issue and also what they actually know about it.

Kony 2012

Kony 2012 is a documentary Produced by the production company invisible children, inc and is written and directed by Jason Russell. After being published on youtube it went viral and has received over 100 million views.

Kony 2012 was a campaign that aimed to inform and raise awareness of issues in uganda, young children were being abducted, forced to kill and used as sex slaves by the LRA. In order to get people to take action the organisation used social media which enabled them to reach large audiences world wide, the outcome of this was very successful as many people were able to share the documentary online, however the rest of the campaign was not that successful as it seemed to disappear after 2012. Kony has still to this day not been captured and no further actions have been taken in order to try and find him, the world has forgotten and left this in the past due to the lack of consistant information given.

This was an expository documentary as it showed the world something that had not been bought to their attention before, and was able to raise great concern regarding this issue.

The documentary had hoped to get the face of Kony recognised globally so he could be arrested, however there was not much of a supportive follow up after the documentary release, therefore still to this day Kony has not been captured.