CL 3/26

Reflection question: I think it helped the audience look at the video through a white mans perspective who is racist. The law and science discourse communities helped push the idea that blacks are inferior and that the Ku Klux Klan that killed Gus was not necessarily a bad thing. This would definitely cause white audience to see that group and this idea as a positive movement which is what cause the historical time period to be even a more mess.
Griffith wants the viewer to feel pity for the family and the south. The use of the iris (zooming in and out) on the family showed that they were scared and very emotional. They decor showed that they were probably a lower middle class family in the south.
Wants to show us their relationship considering the time period this takes place in.