BUSH AND OBAMAAAAAA

Bush and Obama’s War
I haven’t read anyone’s post yet, but I started by watching Bush’s War first. I thought it was very emotional to begin with because it ran right into the attack of the twin towers. The animation at the beginning was very deep too, I felt that the different pictures going into the big picture of Bush played a very big role in showing how this all relates to president Bush. This is effective to show the audience that Bush is our main guy but at the same time the “small pictures” represent those that played big roles throughout the whole Iraqi War but had to respond and tell Bush exactly what’s going on. I felt that Bush made the final decisions, but there were others that gave him information to influence his decision whether the information was actually factual or not. For instance, the location of Saddam’s bunk was false, but it was attacked anyways. The animations and black/grey tone of the pictures help portray the emotions built into the topic. Every picture showed the president or his cabinet as very sad and emotional, even the picture of C. Rice after they were victorious in liberating the Iraqi people. It was a happy moment, but C. Rice’s black and grey toned picture is still sad and serious. I thought the voice of the commentator (not seen) in Bush’s War effectively pulled off the tone as well.
I didn’t really like Obama’s War that much, it was really different. It just really showed actual footage and I wasn’t really notified of the time of events. It was different in terms of effectiveness though because there are a lot of actual footage in Obama’s War that shows what is going on in the war battles, not what Obama is actually doing. It was only towards the middle where they start to talk about the officials doing and actual interviews. The more moving out of the two and more effective I would say is Bush’s War, mainly because of the way it’s presented with the animations and the timing of the pictures with the commentary from the narrator.