Meat factory Ear Worms

Meat factory earworms was a documentary about a man trapped working in a meat factory we watched in class, which focuses on audio. The audio contained sounds of knives being sharpened which made me feel very uncomfortable and un eased with the sound being clear, as if it was being done right next to my ear and other sounds which you would hear in a meat factory such as the cries from the animals being slaughtered which was heart breaking to hear. The documentary’s purpose is to make the audience sympathise for the animals and the man who works there which it successfully does for me. It implies that music is what keeps the man going which was illustrated through the repetitive music being played despite having to go through hearing the animal’s cries. It drowns the sounds from the meat factory out. The sounds used in the documentary was very powerful and intense to get the message across about the horrors in a meat factory through using unsettling and concentrated sounds such as knives sharpening, dripping sounds which could have possibly been the blood running down from the slaughtered animals, and the echoing sounds of animals begging for help.