Friday, 14 October 2011

Super Size Me: Film language and mode of address


List of different styles of filmmaking:
There was alot of interveiws with doctors, professionals, people that suffer from obesity. He made it very personal by his girlfriend being part of the documentary. There was also live action, they were showing him being sick, he made a diary to log how he felt this made us get to know him and what he is like. Also their is alot of advertising, the impact of advertising was that it made me realise how branded Mcdonalds is and how they draw you in with so many different techniques each one targeted at different age groups so all ages are drawn in by Mcdonalds.


List of Interveiwees
Kelly Brownelly - PhD professor at Yale, he was sat in front of a library indicating hes intelligent and well spoken and when he was telling us about fat people there were pictures of fat people.
Jacob Sullum- Senior Editor, he had his certificate on the wall so we could tell he was intelligent and we should listen to him.
Jared Fogel- Ex fat man, he was at a conference.
Victoria- the fat girl was with her mum who is also large.
Tommy Thompson- secutery of human health and services
John Banzhef- law professor, he was talking about how children relate to  mcdonalds as happiness as a child they are taken to Mcdonals as a treat. The mise en scene was happy children in the background playing in Mcdonalds this empahsised Banzhef point.


The relationship between the voice over and the images is that they are both related through out the whole documentary, this then resulted in you not only hearing the information but you also visually which helps the understanding of what he's trying to get across to you.


The music that is featured in the documentary is traditional American music. It is jolly and happy and makes Mcdonalds see a safe good place to be and eat. The type of music is most likely aimed at the the older Americans. They aim it at them as they have the money to buy their food.

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