Positioning vs Alignment

• Position switches between Wink and Hushpuppy
• Aligned with the Bathtub when they physically face them – like they are being invaded
• Aligned and positioned with Hushpuppy when her dad is fighting

Film Form/Dynamic Interaction with Spectator

• voice over narration (doesn’t necessarily passivy the viewer)
• auroch – symbolic of themes (e.g. growing up, fear, environmentalism – magical realism)
• aurochs – cannibalistic, pigs because she hasn’t seen what they really look like
• aurochs – high contrast lighting
• can’t tell the difference between the aurochs
• low camera angle – aurochs
• aurochs – slow music and close sonic perspective of snorting etc
• sound of helicopter – invading
• point of view shot
• people look like outsiders – clean shirt
• Over the shoulder shot when taking the woman in a forceful way
• movement cutting through frame
• hand held camera
• can’t see Hushpuppy briefly
• first proper building that we have seen – looks secure and safer but it has no windows, and looks intimidating, soulless and lacking in character, not very opening
• high key lighting
• whiteness and lack of colour
• ‘it didn’t look like a prison’ – being taken from home is the equivalent to prison maybe
• ‘fish tank without any water’ – see the world from a child’s perspective
• Voice over is in past tense like she is retelling the story – possibly as an older woman looking back
• plastic tray and artificially shaped food
• regimentation
• low angle up at doctor (results) – her point of view
• not in-front of my kid – wants what is best for her, he does have responsibility etc (contrasting to previous scenes)
• sound is echoing – just about hear ‘you could die’
• rejects what is possibly treatment (theme of self-reliance, goes against his principles)
• music box music comes back
• Hushpuppy in a blue dress out f character (ideologically and stereotyping what a girl should wear/social construct) seems unnatural and she looks uncomfortable
• Hushpuppy looks uncomfortable and separate – she’s still while everyone else moves – unfamiliar to her
• plastic toys (contrasting to the beginning of the film)
• out of focus image of her dad, then focuses. Not like his character. (plastic on his nose)

Binary Oppositions

• Bathtub and Levee – regimentation, plastic trays (vs feed up time from earlier), artificially shaped food

Passive/Active Viewing

• Active – aurochs
• Passive – being taken to the hospital

Range of Readings/Responses (Hall)

• different interpretations of the aurochs e.g. environmental side

Ideology/Values

• environmentalism
• self-reliance