Blackfish Documentary & videos

Blackfish Documentary

I watched the documentary called the blackfish where I was very intrigued and interested in the many views it gave towards killer whales having many dangerous encounters with strangers. It pointed out that sea world would cover up all the bad stories to stay in business so that even the trainers didn’t know about the actual truth with the killer whales they were working with. 

            In this 83 minute documentary, I paused the screen to see an image of the biggest male killer whale of them all (in the middle of a Sea World show), Tilikum having blood rushing down the side of him. This was violence shown towards Tilikum by other whales in the tank that he lived with.  Following up with this, Tilikum was so large that he has nowhere to escape to get away from these other killer whales that wanted to hurt him. The saddest part about it is that Sea World did nothing about it. This shows that Sea World is not in it for the whales and their comfortability but for the business where they don’t even treat their trainers with respect in that they give them false accusations about some of the whales. For example, Tilikum killed a trainer in Victoria, BC where only directors saw the incident and news articles came out and said she drowned. They sent Tilikum to Sea World where he continued to work with trainers after he had just killed a young girl. This shows how they will do anything to keep things running smoothly, even if it means putting their trainers in danger. I think this illustration from the documentary shows that Sea World is doesn’t care about the whales which is part of the reason why a lot of them are getting hurt and hurting other people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXBoYIScVkY&feature=youtu.be

This video was taken with an iPhone 5 of orange juice. It was a little difficult to have a still shot because the fan was making the orange juice move in the container.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veDpPNdNeFU&feature=youtu.be

This video was taken with an iPhone 5 of a tree on a sunny day. I decided to video record this because i love nature. It was very difficult to have no movement in this video as for i had to shoot the camera in an upward motion which made it difficult to keep it steady.