This documentary is mainly talking about the manufacturing industry in China. It starts with an overview of a specific factory and focuses on the problems, especially the E-waste problem which is becoming more and more severe nowadays in China. This documentary uses a unique technique, that is interweaving all the video clips that they have recorded into one TED talk. In this documentary, the producers use Montage several times to make the transition between video clips and TED talk smoother. Also, there is one sparkling technique that I observe in this documentary, zoom in and zoom out a photograph at the end of one video clip. This transition is not only really smooth but also works well in putting an end to the videos as well as reminding the audience of the central idea of that video clip. Furthermore, it uses a lot of zooms in and zooms out during the video. They are used for magnifying some important details and putting emphasis on those.
Speaking of the narrative structure. It first starts with the working patterns of a specific factory, then moves on to a village where all of the villagers are living on collecting and recycling E-wastes. In the end, it keeps on to the manufacturing wastes and much more huge construction work that is being carried out. Although this documentary focuses on telling the public a fact existing or going worse around us objectively, I believe the central idea is quite strong with the use of such abundant visual materials that were collected by the team in the past ten years.
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