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Vampires, goons, and monsters are all creators of the night. They are only seen at night. I wonder why I never came across one. It leads me to the question are they real and where do they come from? This question is for you to decide. George Romero product the outstanding film called “Dairy of the Dead.” He uniquely turns the film into a small story about zombies which I find amazing. In Romero’s Dairy of the Dead, and Jason Creeds team Death of Death film about Zombies, both authors uses characters to send a message about how the internet and national media portray real world events and how to protect themselves in from such events. Make-up and effects are used to show the audience that the events in the film are very realistic. Finally, Romero uses a movie within a movie, this gives the audience different prospective on how the movie is played out. Throughout the film Romero also shows other points that support his strategy such as how the government and news media hide information from the public to keep and how the human race will do anything for survival based on what is put on the internet. The purpose of the movie was to capture the truth on how media affects our daily lives. Throughout the series of events used in Romero’s Dairy of the dead, the movie itself tell a very unique story.

Within this film there is a film called “Death of Death” taking place as well, which is produced film student by Jason Creed.  In the film there was some kind of revolution going on where dead people started coming back to life. It start off with an immigrant family maybe from Mexico that turn into the living dead, or as stated in the film as zombies.  The news spreads all over the internet and radio station of the zombie attack. Meanwhile while these events occur, Jason Creed is shooting a movie himself about zombies. Jason and his team found out about the attack on a radio board cast and didn’t know whether or not to take the situation seriously. One of the team members took immediate response to the board cast as other waited to see what was going on, however, they all ended up deciding to go home with their families. There were more and more people becoming zombies, to the point that the hospital and even their homes were unsafe to go to. Throughout all of the tremendous outrage, Jason Creed is filming every detail. Creed produced interviews form his team member just in case they were not going to survive through the outbreak. Throughout the attack of the zombies, lots of dishonesty from the government was taking place. The government was broadcasting to the people that everything is going be ok and telling them to just live the life’s they had until that point, when all the people knew that was a lie. In about the middle of the film you start to see a change in the attitudes of the characters in the film. Every day people were becoming savages. They would do anything for food and shelter. Some of the people look at it in a way that they could take over by killing and stealing from others. By the end of the film, Creeds girlfriend took it upon herself to finish the movie and release it to the public so everyone could see what really happened and learn how to live through the attack. The film also was meant to scare the people and show them how humans we act in life changing situations. The last scene in the movie had two rednecks shooting at zombies for fun like they were never once human. These lead Creeds girlfriends to question herself are we really worth saving? Throughout it all there is something that Romero wants the audience to know so he uses the character to show ethos.

Romero uses the characters to send a message to the public. He uses ethos throw the action of the characters. The characters are carrying out a message. The message itself is a bit simple, however, within the message there is something else that Romero is trying to tell the audience.  The media and the government are covering up the details and the truth about the attack and playing it off as if it was a minor problem. Romero used Jason creed and his team to expose the government and their lies. In the beginning of the film, he showed how the news report basically reported what sounded realistic rather than reporting what they actually saw. The government changes the view of what really going on to make society believe everything is alright. Therefore, the public only saw what was reported. People learn how to survive by watching the truth and how to deal with it. The internet is the way of covering the view of the story. In reacting to this outbreak, Creed gathers his team to show the truth for people awareness. It teaches the people how to protect themselves. The message that seemed to be hidden was how the people were changing outside their own nature. You may think that was pretty obvious, but what wasn’t obvious is how the people started turning on each other. The characters that Romero used were a perfect fit. I’m not speaking of the characters themselves, however, about the usage of them.  Normal people (non zombie) were killing and stealing from each other. Romero’s message shows the audience that during time of serious need, the human race will become something that maybe is already installed in us. The truth will not be revealed until time of desperate measures. This strategy gives the audience some kind of awareness. It helps the people protect themselves from themselves. By using make-up and effects it expresses pathos to the audience to capture an emotional appeal to help the audience understand ways to avoid having to use desperate measures.

Make-up and effects are added to show Romero’s way of expressing his emotional appeal to the film. Make up is used to express the characters character. In this case, the zombies are wearing make up in expression of some kind of horror. Effects such as camera motion, sound and tone are used to show another kind of emotional appeal. Different noises and motion of the camera are meant to scare the audience. You may be thinking why would you want to scare them? Well I believe it helps keep the audience attention on the production.  This strategy helps the audience capture a emotional feel to the movie. It helps prepare the audience for real world tragedy. This gives them a guideline of what to do in such cases.  Pathos is used numerous times throughout the scene. Music that is being played and the sound and tone of it show emotional actions. Without make-up you wouldn’t have an actual sense of how fear feels. With bloodshed, guns and death, the audience would be tricked into believing that the world is a perfect place. In all actuality it not, Romero’s make-up and effects strategy shows the audience that people are dying every day, maybe not from zombies but from war and everyday life. People are dying every day and its being covered up by the people. We are the people, we are hiding the truth from ourselves and that is Romero’s point. 

In the film dairy of the dead, there was also another film called death of death produced by Jason creed. Romero’s purpose of placing the film into two films is to show the audience the entire viewpoints ok the movie. By having two films within each other it make it seem like an actual tragedy. The second is an attachment to the first one. This strategy helps the audience understand how the attack happened. I believe if the film itself was only “dairy of the dead”, you would only see the view as an audience that is watching a normal movie. You understand only the basic concept which is zombies attacking people and how it’s being covered up. You wouldn’t have a clue on how to protect yourself in case of an actual zombie attack and know the ways on survival throughout it. With it being a movie with a movie, there are benefits. The audience gets to see a two way street of the film. One way is how to view the tragedy and the other is what to do when there is a tragedy of the kind. Basically the audience will be able to see the cause and the effect. Jason Creeds team film effect the audience with awareness. It let the public see the actually stories of the people. When there became more and more people blogging and telling stories the true becomes hard to find.

How people react when there is something going on and thing they do when they become scared shows the true nature of us. People tend to do thing that the normally wouldn’t do when something it’s at risk. When people are at their last of everything they will do anything to get what they need such killing stealing to get the basic needs of survival like food and water. This argues that maybe human’s nature is to do such things. Creeds team put it best when the editor stated that us against them (speaking on humans against zombies) to turn it around and say they are us saying that humans are adapting to the habit of zombies. People start to turn against each other. In Conclusion, Romero’s entire purpose of using the element of the characters and the media was to get the attention of the audience to realize that these events could actually happen and what we as the people are prepared to do in such tragic moments. Are we prepared by Romero’s movie within a movie to show us what to do in such tragedy? Has the make and effect scared us enough where are reaction become more ethical? And have the characters carried out a clear message to use so that we understand it, or is it true? Is it true that we are becoming the product of our own environment?