Eddie Aikau Angle

1. The documentary filmmakers called this film, Hawaiian, The Legend of Eddie Aikau, because he was truly Hawaiian and embodied Hawaiian culture as a whole.

2. This films angle was that Eddie Aikau worked hard to sustain Hawaiian culture and brought honor to his ancestors through his courageous actions and his passion for family and community.

3. This documentary was an ESPN program, so it can be understood that the audience is sports based and looking for more lifestyle based views than factual. The audience could, however, still assume that the documentary was completely factual because it was an ESPN program.

4. If this film had been made by another program besides ESPN, say PBS or the History channel, the film would have been more factual and included more explanation on certain things in the Hawaiian culture such as the boat, and the origin of surfing. If the film wasn't ESPN, it would attract a different audience entirely, and would include specific reenactment and more scholarly speakers than the ESPN documentary already did.

6. Topic: Roosevelt
    Focus: Roosevelt's rise to vice presidency in 1900
    Angle:
Since I've watched the documentary on Eddie Aikau, I'm able to figure out a topic, focus, and angle on a specific subject because I know how to identify good analysis that will then further me to find out more about the topic of Roosevelt's rise to the vice presidency and why someone else under William Jennings Bryan, didn't become president. My focus will be Roosevelt specifically, and will stray away from William Jennings Bryan later in my "documentary." My angle will be that Roosevelt was a great imperialist power who was always popular among the wide majority of Americans because he was a war hero and was able to make great decisions quickly, and while William Jennings Bryan was only able to miscalculate and find discrepancies in smaller things, Theodore Roosevelt had a bigger idea for the nation.