Winter's Bones Film Analysis

A variety of camera techniques are used throughout the beginning sequence to enhance the mood and involve the audience. Camera techniques are harmonized with lighting effects to culminate this dramatic scene. I will begin by discussing examples of this. In the village, many close-ups and long shots are used to enhance facial expression and to set the sombre mood.

Through the use of setting, the devastation of war is displayed with the change of scenery as they travel further within the country. When the girls and Dave are first travelling through, the setting is bright and cheerful; they are happy and excited which is shown through a medium long shot of the characters and their transport. As they travel further into the country, the scenery changes as it becomes gloomy and is destroyed. Through the tracking medium long shot, the scenery is displayed while showing the reaction of the girls faces as they lose excitement, being overtaken by sadness and concern. By the director utilising the medium long shot, it allows the audience to see the emotions on the character’s faces while gauging an understanding of the setting.

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Six techniques of continuity editing are depicted in the film. These techniques are establishing shots, cross-cut editing, match on action, shot/reverse shots, re-establishing shots and eye-line match shots that give the movie structure.

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For example, during The Big Fish, the story about the witch’s eye, the angle from where the camera was, showing the house, it meant to make the audience predict what was going to happen. Another example would be in Edward Scissorhands when Peg first went into Edwards room when he was sitting in the corner in the dark. the lighting and framing worked together to create suspense and make the audience worry for Peg’s safety. But another technique that ties both of these techniques together to create the effects of the viewers would have to be

She was teaching her brothers the basics of cooking and chopping wood so that if anything happened to her or she had to leave, they would be able to take care of themselves. Ree gets her brothers ready in the morning and makes sure they know that they shouldn't " ask for things that ought to be offered. " Ree later decides that now that her dad is dead, she shouldn't go to the military so that she can stick around and take care of her brothers and her mom even though she really wanted to become part of the military. Ree thinks that if she stops caring and looking after her brothers, they would most likely not survive because their mother Is unable to care for them because of her mental problems. The reason why Ree was going through so much trouble to try to find her father's body was not completely because she cared about her father, though she did, but more because she cared about her brothers and she needed to make sure they kept their house in order to take care of them properly. Family was very important to Ree and she was willing to do whatever she needed to to make sure they were cared

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In a film, the producer or director has many opportunities to use a variety of camera angles. In film A, even before any words are spoken, the camera shows a medium shot of the country house, followed by shots of activity, tables being laid, and food being prepared, then, the camera goes into close-up mode and it picks out various items of food, and then theseus. Then, the camera pans across the landscape. This gives you an idea of where the play is set and what is

The Reed family evidently still carries this grudge against Jane’s side of the family, as they all treat her as part of a lower class that is unworthy to live with them or be associated with them in any way.

This iconography situates the film for the audience. The western landscape is likely the most important and recognizable symbol of the genre. Rather than shooting within a studio set and soundstage, most of the action is shot on location in New Mexico. Though shooting on location has its drawbacks, it facilitates capturing the true grittiness of nature

Shots change from the close-up shot that shows face to medium, to medium wide shot (American shot, which shows character usually cut cross the leg above or below the knees. The shot ends in a wide shot and extreme

In this difficult situation, Ree must locate her father whose whereabouts are unknown,if she and her destitute family members want to avoid an eviction. Determined to find him, dead or alive, Ree doggedly questions her father's relatives such as his older brother Teardrop and Jessups’s cousin Blond Milton. Teardrop is a skinny, strange, mysterious, frightening drug addict person who wants to keep other people’s business away from him. It is likely that Teardrop suspects that Jessup has been killed. After Ree getting further in examining her uncle, he starts being really mad and grabs her head

Anderson also provides balance in the frame by employing symmetry and placing the actors in the middle. Additionally, another way Anderson uses mise-en-scene is he uses long tracking shots, this

Reed, which I cannot do: I should bless her son John, which is impossible.’…’is not Mrs. Reed a hard-hearted, bad woman?’ ‘She has been unkind to you, no doubt, because, you see, she dislikes your cast of character, as Miss Scatcherd does mine; but how minutely you remember all she has done and said to you! What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited?” (69)