Mise en Scene - Costumes

Scene with the children in school uniform,
in the background.

As the documentary makers (ouselves) were very much involved in our documentary the costumes are mainly typical clothing. This is because our documentary subject is fast food and child obseity, so the people we filmed did not have any particular clothing or outfit. However in one short scene where we are doing a short interview with a food tech teacher, there is two school children behind her who are wearing school uniform and an apron, which links well to the theme of the documentary as they are working with food. Also the news reporters in the archive footage are dressed in smart suits, which is typical of news reporters.   

Archive footage with news reporter

Mise en Scene - Lighting

In our documentary the scenes outside incorporate only natural lighting from the sunlight. Whereas the scenes we filmed inside use artificial lighting from ceiling lights. However we didn't add any other lighting as we wanted it to be quite natural as it is a documentary.

Mise en Scene - Acting

As our documentary fits in to conventions of an expository and participatory documentary, as the documentary makers we decided to be very much involved and on screen for a large amount of time, to make it an interactive and engaging documentary. Having a lot of screen time, as the documentary makers, makes our documentary very much conventional of a participatory documentary. We directly address the audience with this technique, making it more engaging and interactive.

These are the three interviewee's we used in our documentary. We decided to interview a food technician teacher for our main interview as she was familiar with children's eating habits and also new a lot of useful and important facts about fast food and child obesity. We also interviewed a student and another teacher. 

Mise en Scene - Make-up

The make up in our documentary is natural. Natural make up is usually conventional of a documentary as they consist of real life interviews and show real events or situations happening, nothing is usually made up like a film would be.

Mise en Scene - Props

In our documentary we bought this childrens fast food takeaway meal which we used to find out what was inside it. As you can see it's very colourful and busy which attracts the attention of children, there is also games and toys inside and on the packaging. We also incorporated it in to our double page magazine spread. We also used another type of fast food bag at the beginning of the documentary.  

This is a drink  from Mcdonalds which we used at the beginning of our documentary. We placed it in the background of the titles scene.

We used these Mcdonalds chips during our documentary, as we were showing the audience how greasy and salty they really are.












 This is a toy from a childs fast food takeaway meal. We used it in the scene after the archive footage at the beginning of our documentary. Where the documentary maker (myself) catches it while walking towards the camera.

Mise en Scene - Setting

This is the kitchen where we filmed the beginning scene of our documentary. In this scene we placed a fast food bag on the counter then had the titles scroll up the screen. We chose the kitchen as the location for this scene as it is relevant to the subject of food, which we are exploring.  

This is the kitchen which we filmed the scene where we dissected and looked at a children's fast food meal. Once again we chose the location to be in a kitchen as it represents food, linking to our fast food theme.  

This is the high street where we filmed two scenes outside McDonald's. We chose this location as it was outside a fast food restaurant which links to the theme of our documentary. Also we filmed one of us walking in to McDonald's as we were unable to film inside the restaurant.

This is the high street where we filmed one of us (the documentary maker's) walking towards the camera while talking out fast food and obesity. Having someone walk towards the camera while talking is quite conventional of documentaries and TV presenters.

Target Audience

For our documentary we have decided that the target audience is going to be mainly parents as we are explaining the increase in child obesity due to their intake of fast food. We thought that our documentary would be more suitable for parents as they have a big impact on the way their children eat and can help prevent obesity. Our documentary fits in to the particapatory and expository modes, so we made it engaging and interactive by having the documentary makers (ourselves) very much involved and on screen. We are making some of our documentary quite serious to shock the parents, by incorporating archive footage of news reports and hard, true facts. However some sections are light-hearted, like the fast food music, so that they can still enjoy watching it but have a large amount of information and facts regarding child obesity and fast food.