The reason why I chose Supersize Me!, was because of two things. It's use of humour and relativity in the society that I live in. What made this documentary successful was that it used multiple interview techniques. It was investigative as the director, Morgan Spurlock interviewed doctors, nutritionists and lawyers. Morgan also does conversational interviews with random people on the street and McDonald's employees.
The one that stood out that made it entertaining was the use of cartoons, for example the segment where the video shows the comparisons of advertising McDonalds, Pepsi, candy companies vs. heathly food advertising. It also used light music during the surgery of one man. They also use charts and graphs to show a before and after.
Spurlock touches every documentary method which is no surprise why it was nominated for an Oscar.
Ok but surely the success of this doc was based on its shock tactics around Fast Food. The methods help but that's not what gets awards.
ReplyDeleteOverall first entries are a bit sloppy but at least have multiple points of access (url, photo, text)
3/3.75