Jesus Camp

Jesus Camp was a film documenting the stories of a few different children who attended Becky Fisher's "Kids on Fire" camp in South Dakota. The main goal of the documentary was to show the fundamentalist Christian sect in America as a prevalent and growing political entity
that has/will have the capacity to determine public policy so long as evangelist indoctrinate the youth into political spheres.

The mood of the film was prophetic. The body of the film was framed by radio broadcasts covering Bush's nomination of Judge Alito. In the begginning, George Bush announces his nomination. The end contained broadcasts of Alito's victory in the Sentate. Between these two broadcasts was the exposition of the narrative which derived the thesis of the film; that the Christian Political Sect was a political force to be reckoned with.

The main purpose of putting the two parts pertaining to Judge Alito's nomination was to suggest that Christian political influence was directly responsible for his success. This was an editing device that proved very effective in reinforcing the documentary's thesis.

One thing that the film did, through editing, was to evoke a sense of proximity of church and state. A few sequences through the film contained cross-cutting which put christian symbolism and government in juxtaposition with each other. The film did this as a way of evoking the feeling that the demarcations between church and state were dissolving. Because theres nothing better than a church state right?