Documentary analysis plus sized wars

1. Documentary analysis- Plus
Sized Wars

2. Type of documentary
• This is a mixed documentary as it contains:
• Interviews
• Observation
• Narration
• And Achieve footage

3. Themes
• The documentary covers numerous themes
• Beauty and modelling
• Social media
• Retail and business
• Body positivity and image
• Female empowerment
Beauty and
modelling
Retail and business
Social media

4. Narrative structure
• This documentary follows a singular structure as it only focuses on
one specific area.
• This follows a non linear structure as it covers many different topics
within the area.

5. Camera work
• Mid shot tracking store owner
• Handheld cameras used during observational footage
• Tilting and panning is used

6. MISE-EN-SCENE
• Studio lights and cameras are shown during a photo shoot
• Clothing designs and fashion rooms are shown
• Georgina is interviewed in a gym
• Anna Shillinglaw is apart of the modelling agency for Milk
and is interviewed in a photo studio.
• The social media accounts of the women are show
Georgina in gym being
interviewed
Studio lights and camera during photo shootClothing designs shownSocial media is shown

7. Sound
• Non Diegetic
• The score is used to keep the audience engaged, this fades out and softens
during interviews to help create emotion
• The narrator is using standard English to make it easy to understand but is
informal to relate to the audience
• Diegetic
• The sound during the interviews is Diegetic
• The ambient sound during observation
• Sound bridges are used when going from an observation into an interview.
This is followed along with cut aways to make the documentary visually
entertaining to look at.

8. Editing
• Cutaways are used to help cover the use of jump cuts during an
interview
• Questions asked are edited out the majority of the time and it helps
to create flow and it looks like the interviewee is speaking freely.
• Some questions are kept in however to create context for example
The designer in Evans is asked if he finds Tess Holliday attractive and
he responds by saying that it is not his place to answer. This would
not make sense if it was on its own

9. Achieve material
• Old videos of modelling are shown to contrast the size of the women
shown in the documentary
• Women shopping in Evans- This shows the large age of the store
• Newspapers are shown to show opposing views.

10. Graphics
• Opening titles and closing credits are included in the documentary
• With interviews the name of the person is shown along with their job title
• Social media hashtag is shown to entertain the audience outside of the
programme and to keep them interested with the growing popularity of social
media
Name and title shown
Hashtag for social media
Opening title
End credits