Introduction

‘Super Size Me’ is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he ate only McDonald’s food. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effect on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being and explores the fast food industry’s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.

Interview

Morgan interviewed the people effectively in his documentary by using various types of ways to show a very professional setting. Such as when he shows the doctors faces and asking them questions about the experiment, and them giving him their professional point of view and also letting him know the risks that may affect his body, from cholesterol to diabetes, and other fatal diseases such as colon cancer and also hypothermia. The interview helps the viewer understand the dangers that may occur and how junk food is a common addictive lifestyle.

Narrator (voice over)

The use of narrating in this documentary was outstanding, it makes the scene feels way more professional in a way that it uses scientific facts to prove its points about the dangers of junk food and it shows that people as young as 10 years old singing about pizza and Kentucky Fried Chicken and how society accepts junk food as normal thing but as the narrator says that is dangerous habit that has dangers almost worse than smoking. For example, the narrator voice was not too loud and not too faint it was just right. The narrator did a great job delivering information in his own way which gives the documentary the cherry on top.

Stock Footage

Stock footage was used in this documentary to clarify some background information and complete unclear information. For example, they used a map of the United States to show the other branches of McDonald’s locations in the different states which lets the viewer understand the crisis and the bad state of our current world is in.

Conclusion

Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film which a man named Morgan Spurlock follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which Morgan ate only McDonald’s food. Morgan interviewed doctors in his documentary asking them questions about the experiment.

The narrating in this documentary was outstanding, It makes the scene feels way more professional in a way that it uses scientific facts to prove its points about the dangers of junk food. Stock footage was used in this documentary to clarify some background information and complete unclear information.