Chris Rainer Reportage

• Voice?

  Detached

  Blunt

  Horror / frightened

  Discomfort

  Helpful / supportive

  Patriotic
• Audience?

  General American Audience - assumed audience

  National geographic readers
• Purpose?

  To document the impact of the tsunami

  Elements of persuading the audience that America is helping

  To present America in a good light
• Context?

  Photographer = not a professional writer

  Parts of his response seem a little forced, as a defence for the US's previous actions - illegal invasion of Iraq in 2004

  Reportage conventions = headlines, first person, register changes, facts and statistic ect...

  2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that caused a deadly earthquake effecting 14 continents, Banda Aceh the most, killing 250,000
• Key techniques?

  Bathos

  Figurative language

  Semantic field of death, decay and injury

  Hyperbolic description

  Ambiguous language = sense of detachment from the horror, uncertainty and incomprehensible disaster = in medias res.
• Mode?

  Spoken piece of a reportage but edited and published as an article for national geographic.