Cane Toads Film Analysis

I believe that the film writer and a director of the documentary, cane toads: an unnatural history, is saying that the cane toads should never been introduced into Australia as there are too many of them and are destroying the native wildlife. The director uses film codes to back his opinion about the cane toads. The codes include written, technical and audio codes.

The title of the documentary cane toads: an unnatural history reinforces the opinion of the director and writer Mark Lewis, the title suggests that the cane toads are unnatural and do not belong in Australia. As the documentary talks about the trip of the cane toads from Hawaii to Australia we see a shot of a label on it that says “PERISHABLE” this is ironic because perishable means that it is easily destroyed, and that is exactly what people dealing with the problem of the cane toads could not do, they can’t get rid of them.

Audio is anything to do with sound from sirens to songs. Mark uses different songs to that involve the cane toads. One of the songs he uses is the “cane toad’s blues” This song …show more content…
One if the first camera shots is a close up of a cane toads eye, which I find quite creepy and makes the viewer have an opinion similar to the writer just from watching the first few minutes of the documentary. There is a tracking shot of a car on the toad running over and killing the cane toads which shows that many of the people living with the cane toad problem dislike them as well. The tracking through the cane toads eyes is a another reinforcement that the cane toads are destructive and will not stop, it marches as if it’s something to fear, though they are not harmful to humans they are extremely dangerous to all animals as they eat any moving thing that can fit in its mouth and predators get no chase to learn not to eat it as its poison instantly kills

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