- The movie contains lots of interviews with various types of health specialists e.g. doctors , physicians and nutritionists.
Their is also a lot of live action throughout the documentary for example when Morgan throws up at Macdonalds , this makes the documentary more interesting because it distracts the viewer from the facts and numbers that are mentioned throughout interviews with professionals.
Other aspects of the live action is the delivery men that work for Macdonalds.
Moving images combines with an interview in the scene where the film maker interviews a girl who is speaking about how she feels uncomfortable with how the media portrays women. Pictures of magazine girls come on to the screen during the interview which links to what she is saying but at the same time almost makes fun of her.
List the interviewees in the extract.
- Kelly Brownell - PHD , Proffesor , Yale University ( Clearly an important and intelligent person which adds to the film makers point.
Jacub Sullum - Senior editor for reason magazine - The filmmaker makes it clear to the audience that this is an intelligent person by including things such as his certificates in the frame during his interview. He also makes the link beetween smoking and eating macdonalds and raises the point that smoking is just as bad but we don't have a go at people for eating.
John F.Banzhaf - Law Proffesor - He is interviewed in a Macdonalds , while children run around in the background having fun , this backs up his point that people eat macdonalds because they have good memories of it when their young.
What is the relashionship beetween the voiceover and the images shown.
When the voice over is making a point he includes video clips or images that relate to what he is saying so it helps you understand and relate what he is saying to a moving image.
D) The music used in the soundtrack is a song meant to be funny , but at the same time it has clear links to the plot of the documentary with lyrics like "MacDonalds will make you fat". It's a fun song for children but with an underlying message to adults that understand the situation with Macdonalds and their food.
E) Throughout the documentary many different modes and techniques are used to give the documentary a unique twist and approach to getting their point across to the viewer.
The most obvious mode or technique in my opinion is the use of the performative mode because it requires the film maker to be a participant and gives an emphasis on the subjective nature of the documentary. Morgan is the main protagonist in this documentary and we are constantly being reminded of the subject nature of this documentary.
The secondary mode used in Supersize me is the use of the expository mode or "the voice of god".
It involves a narrator talking other live action and moving images saying things that relate to and build on information already given to us in pictures or moving images.
You could also say that this documentary includes the use of observational mode , this is when the documentary takes a sort of window on the world point of view a just observes whats going on . we see this in supersize me when their are scenes of fat people going in and out of Macdonalds and ordering food.
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