Alex's Individual short film research.

Individual short film analysis.
I'm going to analyse the mockumentary called "The Majestic Plastic Bag."

It's about a life cycle of a plastic bag "life cycle" which is shown as a usual documentary about wildlife but obviously it's all sarcastic and is a mockumentary aimed to show the bad side of plastic bags.

The video was made for a petition to ban plastic bags in california and shows the life cycle of plastic bag as if it was an animal which in the end shows the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Pacific ocean which shows the amount of rubbish thrown into ocean focusing audience on how I like men & horrible it is but in a way as it a bag's "Natural Habitat".

The video made in clever way making it sound like any other documentary about wildlife. You can hear narrator describing what's happening on screen and with bag in a way as they usually do in documentaries making it sound like a normal professional documentary about wild life. Camera is used to capture bag's "movement"around city and ocean following it from different angles making it look like a documentary again.

It starts with a family coming out of shop and narrator says that this is documentary about one of the most clever and illustrious creatures, the plastic bag making it sounds very sarcastic and in same way serious like a documentary would sound. Then the plastic bag falls off a trolley then as following narrator it shows all steps of "life cycle" of plastic bag from roads of California to Pacific ocean. Shots are shown with plastic bag in the middle of shot and it cuts to shots from different steps of life cycle, showing "dangers" and "final destination" and also some stops on the way like a sharp fence that bag sticks to.
     
                                 
                                 

Again, the title appears as in usual documentary looking professional, it's located a little bit down in center so you can see the bag traveling through different places trying to keep bag in focus.

All the way throughout the film shots vary from close ups to long shots always focusing bag or key characters like park services in the middle of shot and it follows every word of narrator, but the narrator's text makes it sound really sarcastic, using words like "First flight of plastic bag", "It's finally airborne"

Music changes with video as well, as bag takes its "first flight" there is a gracious music in background, followed up by dramatic music when park services shown indicating danger as also narrator mentions in his text.