ESSAY
Throughout all of my products I show the importance of a current social issue, veganism. In my documentary my main goal were to show actuality as John Grierson’s definition of documentary is the ‘creative treatment of actuality’, to show the sense of actuality I used emotive images of a young white business owner to show that he is down with the current issues of veganism and then switch to show images of families living in poverty which i did to show the different stereotypes, I also used clips of my nephew to show how eating meat is nurtured. I used typical codes and conventions like achieve pictures, lighting, re- enactments, voiceover and use of close ups. interviewing was a key part of my documentary as the main focus was of the 28 year old vegan who talks about ‘The Ugly Truth’ of animal products, I took inspiration off the documentary “What the Health” which followed the same style my documentary did. I also researched the ‘What The Health’ social media page and took...
