The "V Machine" documentary is the life experience of a college "drug dealer" where chocolate substitutes street drugs. Details in the drug dealers life, named "V Machine" (V for Vending) reveal the pressures that college students endure while trying to stay healthy. Ultimately the documentary critiques the unhealthy food culture and drug culture present on some college campuses.
Now, one of the challenges of the documentary is fitting the story into a three act structure, but V Machine does follow this structure. The first act introduces the "V Machine" and the conflict: his exposure to chocolate. The second act sees his escalation in his commitment to chocolate by becoming a drug dealer himself. The second act ends as the "V Machine" is pressed by the interviewer about the shady morals of his business, and finally the "V Machine" commits one last time to his drug dealing. The documentary is concluded by the "V Machine" being arrested.
This documentary could have presented in its current narrative style (interview driven), narrator-driven, or host driven. If this documentary was narrator driven, the story of chocolate dealers would have been told by a narrator with b-roll as support. This style would only use "V Machine" interview bits to support points made by the narrator. If this documentary was host driven, a host would have moved across campus describing the drug dealing problem, and eventually end in a one-on-one interview with the "V Machine."
Now how did the documentary turn out? See for yourself:
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