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Winter's Bone Opening Scene (Aesthetics (Gloomy, Naturalistic, Dark,…
Winter's Bone Opening Scene
Aesthetics
Gloomy
Naturalistic
Dark
Typical Redneck
Scruffy
MIS-EN-SCENE
Clothing
In old clothes, that look like hand me downs
shows that they do not have much money for new things
Ree has two pegs attached to her coat
Shows that she got distracter or interrupted by her sister
Dog
chained up
Link to Ree and how she is chained to her home, due to her siblings
Sonny finds a dog
Decided to keep it shows that they have a heart and are caring
Ree brushing her mother's hair
Shows that she's the caregiver for her mother has well as the children
Although people could still interpret this the wrong way and think that the mother is actually the grandmother, because she isn't doing much
School
Little sister is doing crafts, while Ree watched throught ht window in the door
A close up is used for Ree's face, the glass represents the fact that she has not got that childhood anymore because she has to look after everyone
Medium shot of a girl with a fake baby
Could be health class
Shows that family is a big event for the people at the school
The school takes it seriously because there is a class and therefore may be people there have kids at a young age
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Guns
They are all synchronised and in order, which is exactly what the government wants from their army
She signs up on clipboard, showing she has interests that she hopes to pursue
SOUND
Non diegetic sound
A woman singing a song
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Diegtic sound
Radio playing country music
Same woman singing it
Babies crying
From the dolls
Naturalistic sounds are used, like people talking or the nature around them
Marching of the feet of the teenagers
Highlights that they are in time because if they weren't the audience would be able to hear it
PERFORMANCE
Very natural not over the top
Trying to convey a normal day in this families life and they did that due to the natural acting and chemistry between the different actors
REPRESENTATION
Ree has three options for her life
Start a family
Join the army
Drugs
or stay with her family and look after them for the rest of her life
School system is shown differently for younger children to teens, with the children it's about having fun but for the teens it's organised and educational
EDITING
Fade
Into a shot of the landscape
to Ree doing the dishes
Montage
of the family doing normal activities, every day things
Ree doing the laundry
Ree helping her little sister
Kids playing on a skateboard and on a trampoline
Invisible editing
Makes the scene flow easily and results with it being mroe realistic
Duration of each shot depends on the Dialogue
Allows each character to complete their line before they move onto the next shot
CONTEXT
Independent film
funded by private investors, tax breaks and hedge funds
Then it got picked up by a larger studio and distributed
Set in Missouri
Well known in the south
When people think of Missouri they think of rednecks
Horizontal integration
Small companies helped to fund different elements of the film and then one big company picked bought it and distributed it
CINEMATORGAPHY
Long shot
Establishes the environment the film is set in
kids playing on the trampoline
Ree walking with her siblings somewhere
Shows that she cares for them and doesn't let them walk by themselevs
Implying the place they live is dangerous and the kids can't be unaccompanied
Of a hallway with lots of teenagers walking down it with guns
Each of them walk into the shot from the right
One of the girls says hello to her, showing that she does have a world outside fo her family
Close up of her looking through the glass, but this time she looks interested at what they are all doing, although the glass of the window is still there stopping her from getting the full experience
Medium shot
kids playing with animals
Ree helping her sister put clothes on a dol
Shows Ree is the mother figure
Ree cooking food for her brother and sister
Mother hasn't been shown yet, people could interpret it that she had the children at a young age because they did to or jus that she's looking after them
This goes with either oppositional reading or preferred reading
Ree looking through the window at the teenagers looking after the fake babies
She looks condescending because she's already doing it and had to learn from scratch
Pans to the left following her past a wall of trophies
Trophies could be linking to the fact that she also wants to achieve something within her life
Hand held camera used
Adds a realistic element to the film, makes it look like a documentary
Camera follows the girl towards the dog while it's stationary