Additional Article for the Double Page Spread

In conforming to traditional elements present in a double page spread I decided to include a writers view point section alongside the main article describing the documentary as I felt it would be essential to portray a neutral parties judge of the programme rather then having the author of the article including their own personal perception inside. I felt this would trigger a sense of bias and that they would be trying to support the documentary as best they could as essentially this would reinforce their article more. This could potentially deter the audience from watching it if it appeared to them that one person was trying to sell a product as best they could without considering other individual opinions also.

I titled this particular article as being wrote by an independent critic working for the magazine company who had no previous interaction with the documentary - I hope this displays a neutral parties opinion to the audience and would entice them more if there was more then one positive review other then the writer of the main article themselves. This can be seen below..

Whats getting us talking...

Hollie Leary our resident TV critic gives her peception over this cutting edge documentary

For me, like many other members of our society, had no understanding of the complexity of an eating disorder. I will openly admit I was almost naive in a sense to the very existence of the condition occuring around me. I brushed it off as an ‘irrelevance’, through my ignorance i failed to understand it. Personally I believed it to be a rare instance that popped up periodically throughout time and was something that could quicky be conquered and dismissed as an ‘unforunate’ event in ones life that would never reoccur again - like when we get chicken pox as children ( a one time only event basically) After dedicating an hour of my life to watch this production, fankly I was almost disturbed by the shocking statistics running rife with the young women of our generation, and not only how many are afflicted with anorexia but actually how many DIE from the physical complications associated with starvation. I feel privladged enough as to be one of a very select number of individuals to view ‘The Girls Who Wouldn’t Eat’ in advance to the general public. It was heartbreaking to witness how these girls lives had crumbled around them, how absorbed some of them still are with their eating disorder, this opened my eyes allowing me to see that this is not just an ‘ordinary’ illness that can be cured with a few simple drugs - it is life long and torments an individual so ferociously that sometimes they are powerless from fighting a valid defence. Truly this is a shocking yet marvellous documentary, beautifully crafted and composed in allowing us to follow these brave womens stories. I wish eveyone of them strength to finally beat this disorder in the future, to see potential beauty ravaged by a frankly evil illness is almost soul destroying, an irreplacable waste of youth.