Elise Booth Film Studies

'Winter's Bone' (Granik 2010) Indepedant Cinema   Independent America films characteristically explore on-mainstream cinema subjects and tend to cinema subjects and tend to adopt stylistic features associated with Non-diegetic sound of banjo suggests the stereotypical  country life i.e. poor Rural Poverty Winter's Boe typically requires active spectatorship to fully understand Women in Winter's Bone  However there are parts thoughout the scene.. The 'Cutting off Hands' scene

How far does 'Winters Bone' rely upon an understanding of its social context ?   'Winter's  B one' is set in The Ozarks, a small  community  i n Missouri t hat  i s blighted by rural poverty,  lack of opportunity, low educational outcomes  and a sense of separation of mainstream USA  infrastructure. Secretive and inward looking with  an emphasis on family loyalty and ‘kin’ based  around patriarchal power but dependent upon  strong, resilient women. Methamphetamine use  and addiction has had devastating consequences  on families and individuals. The reality  of financial insecurity, violence, domestic  abuse and mental illness is ever- pre c edent .  A n early  scene  that showcases the poverty of the area is when Ree visits their neighbour  Sonya.   Often ,  Ree  and her siblings are forced to rely on the generosity of  her   for many food and provisions. ...

Independent Cinema  An independent film, independent movie, indie film or indie movie is a feature film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies.  Social Context  The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact.  Production Context  Production context is the social and economical aspects around the film. What is financially available? Directors tend to make films that are in trend at the moment. They tend to gross more money.

Upon  setting out to film we found our first challenge – time,  availability  and organisation.  It was very difficult to find time to film when everyone was free, in order to overcome this we had to film the actors individually, and improvise when people simply couldn’t be  present at filming – this even meant using a ‘stunt double’ and ‘hand model’ to stand in for actors in certain scenes. Overall  I think that  we worked well to improvise and work with the little time that we had. Another issue with our filming was that some of the shots that we chose to film ‘hand held’ appeared to be more unstable than anticipated, even with stability mode switched on the camera. Next time in order to combat this I would film less zoomed in and then crop the frame down to the desired focus in editing. As well as this we found it very difficult to successfully film a tracking shot of the actress walking forwards, this came across strongly in our final pro...

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