3. Camerawork
At the end of the documentary they use a slight high angle when talking to a Morrison's
employee. This ensures that there the audience has less sympathy for him and the company he
works because it represent them as less sympathetic and more intimidating. Another use of
camerawork is that they use repeated close ups of the narrators eyes and expressions in order to
make us trust him. This camera shot is used again when the narrator is interviewing a KFC
employee, which are introducing a new scheme that gives wasted food to local charities. This is
used to give the person sympathy as we can see her expression. They also use a low angle on
some occasions to make him look more powerful in the shot, which shows he knows what he’s
talking about.
4. Sound
This documentary uses several styles of documentary narration known as ‘voice of authority’
and ‘voice of god’. This allows the narrator to give people facts and statistics, which cannot
be argued against, which ensures that the audience trusts his opinion. The person speaking in
the narration sounds fairly confident which would give authenticity to the documentary as
the person seems to know what they are talking about.
5. Misen scene
There is a constant use of ‘wasted food’ imagery throughout the documentary, which
is fairly effective at making sure that everybody is aware that just how much food is
wasted. This is most likely primarily used to shock their target audience into being
disgusted by the amount of waste that they are seeing. Mis en scene is also used when
they added together several close-up images of the names of supermarkets and fast
food chains. This would reinforce the idea that people should be against supermarkets
wasting food, which is given context by the narration.
6. Editing
Throughout the documentary slow motion editing is used effectively to show the huge quantity of
food that is wasted throughout Britain. They also rely heavily on parallel editing to make sense
of the visuals. For example they use shots of Hugh in an interview and then they also intercut
this with shots of food wastage and this empathises the point their making in this interview. Shot
reverse shots are also used to give evidence of what's being said at any point. Long sequences are
used in order to make you feel very uncomfortable as its not natural to look at people for such a
long time. These sequences also feel like they are unedited increasing the verisimilitude of the
documentary. They also use a lot of reaction shots to show their shock at how much food is being
wasted.
7. Interviews
There is a contrast between the camera angles in these different interviews. For instance, in the first
interview the camera angle is a close-up of the mans face, which allows their target audience to read
his emotions. This allows us to trust the persons opinions whereas the supermarket clerk does not
have a close up of his face, indicating that the documentary wants their target audience to trust him
less. During interviews the narrator/presenter also uses a fairly aggressive style in order to get
information from people, which allows him to get a lot of information from them. The interviews
appear very natural/informal which allows the audience to make up their own mind about whether or
not their opinion is correct.
