Week 5 Blog post

For this week we watched the Crip Camp documentary that provides a background context on the lives of disabled people. It was interesting to analyze this documentary when considering the history of a movement. This documentary provides great insight into the lives of people who are disabled and can raise an additional level of awareness than a social media post. The differences between what social media and documentaries such as this can do for a movement are apparent. The benefit to a social media post is its potential to reach the screens of thousands of people. However, documentaries provide a unique perspective of those who are disabled and gives the audience more to connect to than a social media post as they can hear their stories. It also gives a historical context for the movement and illustrates why the disabled rights movement is crucial. Documentaries are also a creative genre in that they have the ability to provide so much insight into a given issue and can leave the audience walking away caring about their cause. Social media cannot necessarily give the same amount of detail and background in one post. However, social media is useful for providing people with immediate awareness and can use multimodal elements to illustrate the gravity of the cause. Documentaries such as this one also have somewhat of a storyline for the audience to follow in that they are getting the background of the camp and insight into the lives of those who attend it.