2. Themes
The documentary features various themes including obesity, weight,
health, fashion and blogging.
The themes help spread various messages of acceptance and positive
body image.
It features a number of plus sized women trying to ‘inspire’ a younger
generation
It features the theory that everybody can be happy in the own skin
however it also features hypocrisy as some of the girls change their ideals
and try to lose weight resulting in back lash from the plus sized
community.
It also features the views and attitudes of the general public have towards
the plus sized community.
3. Type of documentary
The documentary is a mixed documentary that features individual bios
about specific plus sized women.
4. Narrative structure
The documentary has multiple strands featured as part of the narrative.
These strands focus mainly on the fat female bloggers who are,
promoting fat acceptance, the modelling companies that support fat
people, the impact of the bloggers inspiration as well as the back lash
from the public.
5. Camera work
The camera work features lots of mid shots as well as long shots allowing
the audience to see how fat the female bloggers are.
This technique helps to show the girls weight gain, loss and overall
comparison to a regular person.
The are lots of tracking shots that follow the bloggers round as they do
photo shoots and every day life tasks.
The framing is generally to the right or left when an interview is taking
place.
6. Editing
The editing features mostly slow paced cuts. Cross cutting is occasionally
used during specific sequences during the documentary to show what
the other bloggers are getting up too
Cutaways are used during interviews to show the audience photos
relevant to the convocation, aswell as archived footage and videos.
7. Mise en scene
The documentary features lots of appropriate plus sized clothing.
The lighting is high key symbolising the positivity.
Changing rooms are related to the models as they help advertise the
clothes worn by the
8. sound
Diegetic- featured females talking with one another.
Narration- the narration over laps the images on the screen as well as the
non diegetic.
The sound track features upbeat pop music.
There is incidental music to suit the moods of each scene.
The music is varied from chart music and un named background music.
9. Graphics and archived footage
There is archive footage of ladies visiting Evans in the 1960’s as it was a
historical shop for larger ladies.
The use of social media helped to give a insight into the daily lives of the
fat body acceptance bloggers.
social media provides the audience watching to have full view of the
bloggers fat transformations