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Supersize Me

Morgan Spurlock has decided to show their audience the effects of what happens to the human body (when they are in perfect health), when they eat an unhealthy proportion of fast food. Then surprisingly, we find out that eating McDonalds day & night is apparently bad for you. We plan to give a similar effect to our audience by showing the end result, of what Spurlock showed his audience in Supersize Me. However, in our documentary we are going to take it one step further there by showing the effects of obesity and showing comparisons with people’s views on both obesity & views on how to stay healthy.

The humour effects used in Supersize Me is the use of satire, for example, the advertisement poster, where he has got an outrageous amount of chips in his mouth at once with the look of shock on his face, with a caption underneath saying “A Film of Epic Portions”. The fact that he has put all of these chips in his mouth and then looks shocked about it brings in a Ironic humour to his documentary.

In the first 58 seconds of our documentary we will be putting in disgusting images of people eating fast food combined with a parody song of the Michael Jackson ‘Beat It’, called: ‘Eat it’ by Weird Al. We have achieved a ironic humour out of a very serious situation by combining these two elements.

Spurlock had various interviews with Nutritionists, Doctors, Nurses & others in a medical profession. In our documentary, we unfortunately could not get interviews with the various people that Spurlock got interviews with. However, we managed to get the views of the Public, teachers from a Sports College and a Fitness Instructor. Also, by interviewing people who do not have a professional background into the subject we have given it an open & less bias take on the Documentary by showing that anyone’s view can be valid.