2. The shot type on the left
shows the food that Morgan
Spurlock has bought from
McDonalds. This is a good
shot as it has been used to
exaggerate the amount of
food he is taking in for one
meal.
The shot type above shows a close up of
Morgan Spurlock eating his food. This is to
show how the food is really impacting his
health and how he is struggling to eat all of
the food he has bought. The facial expression
shown here clearly shows that he doesn't
feel good and is starting to show regret on
his face on why he is doing this.
The shot type below is a great
camera shot because it shows
the sugar intake that he has
taken in over the time period
of his experiment. This is to
used to shock the audience on
how much sugar is actually
contained within fast food.
The shot type to the right shows a
medium close up. This is used in
the documentary mainly to do
interviews. The interviews are
shown to audience about the
facts about our health and how
fast food would impact our
health.
3. Establishing shot is used here to
show where Morgan Spurlock is
going to purchase his next
McDonald’s product. This is to
emphasise the size of some of the
McDonald's franchises are.
The shot type above shows a mid
shot of Morgan eating his meal. The
majority of the time, he eats the meal
either in his car or within the store.
4. The shot type to the right
shows the big brands that we
know of in today’s society
surrounding GMA
representative. This is because
all these brands are part of
the company.
The shot type to the left shows a
cartoon clip of how chicken nuggets
are made at McDonald’s. Real footage
is not used as it would be to graphic so
cartoon footage is used to give an
overview of how they are made.
The shot type on the right shows
a teenager who is talking about
how corporate companies are
making the average teenager feel
because of the teenage models
that are advertised everywhere.
The editing shows the average
teenager to the models.
5. Editing technique used here is to show
the different days Morgan Spurlock
has obtained his experiment. As you
can see in the bottom left corner of
the screen shot, you can see the
words ‘Day 3’. This would have been
edited in for the viewers so they know
where he is up to with his quest on
how fast food affect the human body.
In the this screen shot we can see text
being highlighted. In the actual video,
the screen zooms in to the text and
highlights keywords and phrases from
what Morgan Spurlock is narrating. This
is editing that has been added in to add
emphasis to the point that Morgan is
trying to make.
During Supersize Me, different shots of food
have different editing techniques to show
what Morgan Spurlock is consuming. The
screen shot to the right shows a meal that
Morgan Spurlock has bought from
McDonalds and the editing he is the way the
camera zooms out of the close up of the
food. The original shot was just a shot of the
pancake but once zoomed out, it then shows
the full meal.
6. The Mise-en-scene in the documentary is
based around Morgan eating his food either
in one of McDonald’s Franchises or in the
comfort of his car. This is to show what food
he is getting and where it is from. He has
chose McDonalds because its one of the
worlds favourite fast food restaurants and
the now the option has been given to them
to enlarge their meal by supersizing. The
documentary is mainly based in New York
but Morgan Spurlock travels out to Texas to
find out information about the food industry.
While he is there he still carries on with the
experiment eating a McDonald’s everyday for
every meal.
7. The sound in the documentary is more
based on Morgan Spurlock talking and
narrating about the information about the
fast food industry. Also in some clips, there
is background music for example when he is
quoting some letters about food industry.
The other sounds that are in the
documentary are natural sounds such as the
noise coming from a McDonald’s store.
This is to show the type of environment you
can expect in a McDonald’s Branch.
