Morgan Spurlock, the director of the 2003 documentary “Supersize Me”, has positioned the audience to witness the negative effects of eating fast food and the health risks that goes along with eating fast food. Throughout the documentary, Spurlock challenged himself to eat McDonald's for every meal of the day, including drinks. The techniques that Spurlock employed to convey his way of thinking were camera angles, interviews and montages throughout the course of the documentary. By using this approach to reveal the unfavourable effects of eating fast food to the audience, Spurlock has strengthened the idea to discontinue the support of McDonald's and decrease the number of people who eat fast food.
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The group of people who were most influenced by the fast food campaigns where the children. The children, when asked to identify different popular people or characters, could easily identify the “Wendy’s” character, but could not recognise Jesus Christ. This proves that children can easily remember the characters or slogans of numerous fast food places, meaning that when they’re asked, “What do you want for dinner?”, children can swiftly respond with any fast food company that comes to their brain first, showing how dark their future will become if they continue consuming. Another group of people interviewed about their fast food habits were adults on the street. Their frequent dining poses as a threat to their body and their lives. Throughout all of the documentary, Spurlock is persistent in visiting his doctors and showing them the effects that the fast food is having on his body. With this, the doctors quite often give Spurlock advice to discontinue his experiment as it could seriously affect his health in the long run. After using interviews from numerous people, Spurlock sways the audience that eating fast food is a pandemic that needs to be erased before it becomes too
One of the techniques used to display the …show more content…
The group of people who were most influenced by the fast food campaigns where the children. The children, when asked to identify different popular people or characters, could easily identify the “Wendy’s” character, but could not recognise Jesus Christ. This proves that children can easily remember the characters or slogans of numerous fast food places, meaning that when they’re asked, “What do you want for dinner?”, children can swiftly respond with any fast food company that comes to their brain first, showing how dark their future will become if they continue consuming. Another group of people interviewed about their fast food habits were adults on the street. Their frequent dining poses as a threat to their body and their lives. Throughout all of the documentary, Spurlock is persistent in visiting his doctors and showing them the effects that the fast food is having on his body. With this, the doctors quite often give Spurlock advice to discontinue his experiment as it could seriously affect his health in the long run. After using interviews from numerous people, Spurlock sways the audience that eating fast food is a pandemic that needs to be erased before it becomes too