Documentary anaylsis four

Documentary Analysis

Supersize Me

Type of documentary:

Mixed

Themes :

Macdonald's

Social Affairs - Health

How industry effects the audience

Narrative structure :

Closed narrative -finished with a question

Single strand narrative

Camera work :

Zooming in and out

Close up's are used a lot

Two shot used for conversation - mid shot

Tracking used to follow presenter - tracking him

Close up of people interviewed - questions edited out or two s

hots of interviewee and interviewer - questions kept in

Mise-en-scene:

Doctors office- reiterates message of health

Macdonalds stores

Offices - shows the importance and professionalism of person being interviewed.

Street scene - shops, take away's ect

Moving- mise-en-scene- durin

g interviews and stills.

Sound:

Background music - cheery tune - no lyrics

Continuous narrator (voice of god) male voice - used of standard English

Music or voices faded in and out in-between narration

Music reiterates images 'rock and roll macdonalds'

Editing:

Cutaways - Fat people, A

merican flag+map, macdonalds

Moving image of kids singing + fat people walking

Cutaways reiterate message.

Fast forward people walking getting food

Moving quickly from shot to shot -fast cuts

Camera placed in one spot - footage fast forwarded
Flicks from main documentaries and interviews

Archive Material:

Images of mother

Images of childhood

Old posters and Mcdonalds adverts

Conference health services

Montage of models and illnesses

Images of 'Burt basken' images reiterate interviewee's dialogue.

Graphics :

Moving writing writing on screen - fading in and out
Name of new people appears on screen.

Day number at bottom of screen

Cartoons made- moving images.