Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Pre production news

News stories -
  • David Beckham in a car crash.
  • Justin bieber gets beaten up.
  • Dead body found at kim kardashians house
  • Henley school goes red for rembemberance day.
interviewees  - 
  • Girl from the Henley college 
examples of questions -
  • What does this day mean to you?
  • How do you feel?


Location shots - 
  • News room
  • Police station
  • Side of busy road.
  • Outside 'kim kardashians' house.
  • Corridors of henley school.

Media Regulations

http://www.slideshare.net/geenelly/media-regulations

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Sunday, 6 November 2011

supersize me


Supersize Me

Graph from the film
List the different styles of filmaking (this will include live action and animation etc). How are these styles used to present information? The film maker uses many different styles of filmmaking to make the film more shocking and realistic. He uses graphs to give an exact number and it looks more truthful to the people who watch, he also animates this graph by showing the change in weight issues he does this animation to show you the drastic change. He also shows us pictures of his home family to tell us abit us abit about himself which makes us feel more attached to him and like we know him.
He also does interviews with the expert to give a more informed and professional explantion  



   


















List the interviewees in the extract. Describe the mise en scence of each interview. What connotations does this create for the audience?
b) Kelly Brownell PhD (professor for eating and weight loss disorders) mise en scence - There is alot of books around him which make him look intelligent .   
Jacob Sullum (Links eating with smoking)
John F. Banzhaf (Expert in children's health and diet) III he talks about the children which  visit McDonalds, in the background you can hear children quite clearly. this emphasis' his point.


What relationship is there between the voice over and the images? How does this effect the way that the audience interprets what Spurlock is saying?
c) The pictures and voice over link to eachother giving the viewer and visual view of what the voiceover is explaining. Also he shows you a bit of his childhood background giving you the feeling of feeling closer to him by looking at the pictures of him.


What music features on the soundtrack? which group of people is most likely to enjoy this type of music?
d) The music which is plays is very amusing and fun to children but sarcastic and jokey also, shows you how unhealthy McDonalds, which children wouldn't really understand or bother thinking about which shows that kids are gonna eat it because they clearly don't understand what it can do and lead to in the long run.
   
What mode of documentary is Super Size Me? Are there elements of more than one mode? provide evidence for your answer.
e) This documentary is a participatory mode (performative), it is because the person making the film is the subject of the film and gets involved with the people in the documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKCb0_2oD0&feature=related