Analysis of Professional Documentaries: The Moral Kombat documentary (2007)

The Moral Kombat documentary (2007) directed by Spencer Halpin shows the audience the current violence going around in video games such as the Grand Theft Auto series, and Halo two of the biggest and most selling violent video games. The Documentary explores and analyses the violence in current games and the effect it is having on obsessive and hardcore gamers. In the video there are a lot of rapid shots used of different video games violence and extreme graphics of violence such as the usage of blood being drawn of victims, guns, knives, grenades, and other weapons that cause violence to be extremely graphic when playing these games.

Close up and medium shots are used at experts such as Jack Thompson and Bob Mckenzie to get their view points and these graphic games are playing in the background to back up their views on these video games and the effect on the society. They reflect on the youth generation and impose several high figure people who have been affected by violent video games such as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who had carried out the Columbine High School Massacre under the influence of the 1993 video game “Doom”. The genre it conveys is violence that is represented in the games they show such as Grand Theft Auto and True Crime: Streets of L.A. This documentary can be an ideal documentary to follow and analyse more closely and can use some of the conventions of this documentary to help us with our own documentary because it is very similar and be used to help us with our documentary, for e.g. some of the games they represent in the documentary.