Waiting for Superman

Waiting for Superman

1.Sound
We start by hearing voices of young people, students which are being interviewed and the voice of the authorities which are also being interviewed. Students talk about their dreams, what do they expect their futures will be and as everybody they expect the best but they are not getting even close to a good education. The sistem is failling and authorities are concerned about children getting ¨crappy¨ education.
In terms of non diagetic sounds we hear different music, which demonstrate and reflect what the director is trying to show, the tone of the music varies within this 2.32 minutes trailer.
There are also non diagetic dialogues. We hear the man who is interviewing people and a voice talking directly to the audience, presenting the problem.

2. Footage
In this documentary the different choices of footage are being used to attract audience. They use interviews as to emphasise with the audience and show them a clear and direct information of a social problem. They also show the children in a more deep way, they take you into the life of some children to emphasise with their dreams, dreams which everybody has as kids but for some are harder to reach. Through animation they also show clear points of the social issue used with creativity. They show flashfowards of an average of childrens which do not graduate from school which are likely to end in jail. Their lives depend on a lotery, who will win this number?

3.Sources
The first girl on being interview is a young girl which is apparently is in her bedroom. We can see she is a sweet young girl with many expectations about her future. The second girl interview also in her bedroom, is a young girl also with great aspirations and human values. The third interview which talks about the "crappy" education children are getting is a Chancellor of DC for public schools named Michelle Rhee. The interview taks place in a meeting room, privately. The fourth Interviewer is Geoffrey Canada a education reformer which critizes education on what it looks as he´s office. The fifth interviewer is a little boy which is trying very hard to get the best education he can have and to impresse his grandmother. The next interviewer is an authority from school, which also has a harsh critic over education and which speaks about the concequences of having a bad education and not graduating. The little boy appears again and reinforces his need and urgy to go to school. Parents of an unknown child appear and answer a question which is the nightmare of their child, if he does not win by a lottery the chance to go to school, he never will. The next interview is to another authority of the school, which reinforces the dramatic and serious problem of the education. The next interview is to a very important man, the creator of Microsoft Bill Gates which creates hope. The little boy appears again.

4. Text
There are texts being added to the movie to point out the serious problems and to reinforce the situation  of what the documentary is trying to show. Also there are texts being added when people are talking to let as know who there are and to let us know they are not just random people, they are important people insede eduation.

5. Editing
The movie is edited in a way that is very effective. It starts by interviewing the kids which talk about there dreams, this makes the audience symphathise with the kids and engage them to view all the documentary with full atention. They then show the problems and the authorities concern about the problems which are wiling to change. They kids are shown in their normal lives and finally they are shown in a big room waiting for their number to came out in a lottery so they can win their education.