Reasearch and personal input for our Documentary Food For Thought

We were all given different areas to research and we all came with different example that helped shape and inspire our documentary. We mainly focused on celebrities and people who have helped change people's lives to make them healthier and therefore help change their diet and lifestyle. I researched "Jamie Olive's School Dinners" and "You are what you eat". I felt that these people have contributed to the change in people's diet and therefore help people out of medical problems such as obesity that is on the rise in the UK.



This documentary was good as it shows members of the public about the food that children are being served for example foods not having the right ingredients in foods like chicken nuggets and children are not having a balanced diet and are being consumed to unhealthy foods than having their five-a-day.

It uses close-up shots of children's lunch boxes and the food hat they are eating to shock the audience make them do something about it and change to gave a more balanced and healthy diet. Also when asking children what certain vegetables were none of the children had the right answer this shows the lack of knowledge and the relationship that children have with food.

The documentary shows the good side towards the end as more and more children are enjoying the concept of eating healthy foods and shows that healthy does not need to be boring as there are close-up shots of children eating healthy lunches. There is the argument that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food.



This Documentary You are What You Eat focuses on the concept of what people eat and how much unhealthy food they are consuming. The presenter confronts people into the amount of calories are in the product and therefore try to change their food habits, low angle shots are used to show importance and close-up shots of people's faces to show emotions expressions, for example obesity.

I felt that this documentary was good as it focuses on the lifestyle of the person than just the food consumption and body image as this allows the audience can connect with the person. The documentary highlights illness that are a result of unhealthy foods with red bold titles, such as obesity and heart disease.

It also shocks the audience like with the Jaime Oliver documentary by using close-up shots and tracking shots of unhealthy foods. The use of interviews i the documentary with the interviewer and the interviewee that are used in the documentary are more personal as the camera chooses to keep the camera rolling this suggests that the interviewee is reflecting on her decision to constantly eat unhealthy food.

Another contribution to the project are the questions for the interviews that we carried out in Bristol with Anna and her friends that have attended her workshops

Here are the questions that I came up with for the interviews:

We are researching into healthy food and the impact healthy food has on people’s lives. We are conducting a documentary that shows the impact that healthy food has on people from a Nutritionist’s point of view.
1. How often do you have takeaways?
2. What is your approach to healthy food?
3. How often do you eat healthy foods?
4. Would you buy this cake if it was sold in Supermarkets?
5. What do you think of Anna’s food? How did you react?
6. Would you change your own diet to Anna’s food?
7. Is this the first time that you have had organic food?
8. If so would you have it again?