Definition

Performative documentaries focus on the filmmaker’s involvement with their subject, using his or her personal experience or relationship with the subject as a jumping-off point for exploring larger, subjective truths about politics, history, or groups of people. A cinematographer is often asked to capture the documentary production process, as well as intimate footage that illustrates the direct and often personal relationship between filmmaker and subject. Supersize Me (2004) by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock documents his experience eating only McDonald’s fast food for 30 days, chronicling the body issues, health problems, and the ensuing doctor’s visits in an attempt to question the food sold at the famous fast-food chain.

Reference

Masterclass (2021). Film Documentary Guide: 6 Types of Documentaries. [online] Masterclass. Available at: Film Documentary Guide: 6 Types of Documentaries [Accessed 10 Jan. 2024].

SOUND&EDITING
When listening to this sequence we hear some examples of both non-diegetic and diegetic sound. This is evident by the use of upbeat music and also the beeping when they are inside the Mcdonalds. There are less examples of sound as it is a documentative style of filming however there are some examples in which we notice.

-When a joke is told the sound cuts out

-When they are going around Mcdonalds they add music & he also voices over to add impact with a rhetorical question.

-He has a slightly comical analysis of the money aswell.

-He adds dimenuendos after this also.

-Between asking for the food and nutrition thing the tempo of the music is also high, it’s strange as it sets Spirlog as a bit of a trickster, sometimes they also cut the music to punctuate the quality.

-There is also a cut in music when he asks about menu’s to add affect.

-In this documentary the fact that it starts with the kids demonstrates the significance that fast-food restaurants have on kids, it helps emphasise the problem!

-There are loads of cuts from people to the fast food restaurants, 3 shots,3 different Mcdonalds- it is an establishing montage.

-There is a sign that pans to Hungry Valley to represent how food based America is,shows him travelling also.

GRAPHICS

-There are different cartoon animations throughout this clip, it is significant as it shows what corperate guys do and it is trying to be persuasive- this is known as a characerture which is known as a form of political satire.

-The whole thing is clearly there to saferise and mock these chains.

-The use of the clown looking unfriendly is also another demonstration of political satire to structure the documentary.