Super Size MeAnalysis

This is the opening shot of the documentary. It starts with a blank screen and the voice over of the children singing the McDonalds song, then the image of the these children singing appears. The clip zooms out and pans left slightly to show all the children, emphasising the impact McDonalds has on children whilst they all do the McDonalds dance.

Once the clip of the children disappears a famous quote relating to business’ is shown on the screen.

This part of the clip begins to introduce facts and figures relating to America and fast foods, particularly McDonalds. These facts and figures allow the audience to develop their own opinion on the current topic being discussed within the documentary. The tone of the voice over is quite deep and serious. This illustrates how real and serious this is as an issue to the country. Or how serious this should be raised as an issue.

Here graphic features and archive material are being used as seen in all of the above/previous images. The way in which they are used is in large varieties. One image shows an interview as part of the documentary and on the bottom left hand corner of the screen a title appears introducing who the man is being interviewer and his occupation. Which, in itself explains his relevance to the particular topic of this documentary. Therefore it gives the audience added information so they fully understand what is happening throughout the documentary. Other uses of archive material seen are the images of photographs used. This adds back round to the narrative and also supports the text being spoken by the voice over, so the audience get a chance to see images of what is being described.

This is an example of camera work being used as a hand held camera is used in the shot to zoom onto the subject, here showing an extreme close-up of the desired area relater to the topic (his mouth while he is eating another meal from McDonalds).

This is an example of more archive material being used in yet another way. Here the archive material used is an animation, to keep the audience engaged in the documentary and as a visual way to see what is being said by the voice over.