The subject of the short film Chicken a la carte is poverty. This is because in the film you observe how people are eating in a fast food restaurant yet the worker can only afford to get scraps to bring home to his family. The intention of the producer is to show how that some people’s lives are so bad they have to eat out of bins just to live. The implied target audience is anyone who will watch it as they are trying to put forward a cause that needs to be addressed. The potential certification would be a pg as there is no high levels of violence, nudity etc and young children would learn from seeing it that they are lucky to have what they’ve got. The distribution would be online as more people watch videos online. The key character in the short film is the male worker as you observe him working, then when his shift is over he goes out to the bins and sorts through all the wasted food, he brings back the best stuff to his family and shares the rest with his village. The settings of the film are the fast food place and the village where the worker lives. These are relevant to the film as you see how wasteful people are in the fast food place yet you see how happy the male workers family are when he brings back scraps which show that they must get worse/less food regularly. The soundtrack on the film is slow and creates sympathy towards the less fortunate. The form of this film is a pseudo drama as it is acting when the people are in the fast food place, but when the food is brought back to the village it is a documentary as you can’t fake the reactions when they are getting food as it is real life. I think this film is very good at showing the realism of some people’s lives. It shows the raw truth that people actually have to scavenge for their food and can’t afford any better.
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