Michael Moore's documentary Bowling for Columbine explores the high rate of gun violence in America. He interviews people living in communities affected by mass shootings about how these events impacted their lives and why such tragedies continue. Moore uses sarcasm and shocking facts to emphasize the problem. For example, he cites a Chris Rock comedy bit about raising bullet prices and statistics showing America's gun deaths far exceed other countries. Moore's expository method of voicing facts in a sudden, informative way makes the problem's gravity clear and is an effective technique the document summarizer would employ in their own work.

1. Documentary Analysis

2. Introduction
• Bowling for Columbine is a documentary by
Michael Moor that explores the cause for
escalated gun related crimes in America.
• Moor focuses on the communities that have
experienced tragedies like the Columbine
massacre.
• He goes around the towns asking people
who live or work in the area what effect the
events have had on their life and why they
think these tragic events continue to
happen.

3. Methods
• Moore uses sarcasm entwined with hard
hitting facts to emphasize his points and
the problem at hand. During the film there
is a clip from Chris Rock – Clip
• In this clip Chris Rock talks about how the
price of a bullet should be raised to $5000
to prevent gun crime.
• This can be related to both Observational
and Reflective modes.

4. Methods
• The facts used in the documentary are
shocking when your eyes are opened to the
problem America is facing.
• America has around 11000 deaths per year
due to fire arms whereas other countries
deaths fail to reach 200 deaths per year.
• Moore uses these facts sparingly throughout
the film I feel this increases the effect the
fact has on the reader because of the sudden
realisation of the gravity of the situation.
• This can be shown as the Expository Mode.

5. Uses In My Own Work
• The thing I would take from this documentary to use in my own
would be the use of the Expository mode, this would involve
displaying facts with a voice over explaining or informing the facts
shown to the viewer. I will look to do this in the same way as Moore
so that the facts shown will be as interesting and hard hitting as the
ones use in Bowling for Columbine.