Y13 Narrative techniques- WNTAK

Question 1

What is spatial and Temporal clarity?

Answer 1

When the spectator is given clear exposition about time and place in the film world.

Question 2

What is an unreliable narrator/protagonist?

Answer 2

Someone we don’t trust or believe

Question 3

The red paint on the house can be considered what? when watching the opening for the first time

Answer 3

An Enigma Code

Question 4

How does Ramsay entice Active Spectatorship during the opening sequences of the film? (encourages us to ask questions, doesn’t give us any exposition, makes the viewing experience difficult to follow)

Answer 4

Eva’s sunglasses inside, Neighbours staring at her through the intra-diegetic gaze. Open with no spatial or temporal clarity- dont know where we are?

Loud uncomfortable amplified shouting, lots of positive cramped space in the dream sequence.

Question 5

What cinematography techniques establish disequilibrium at the start of the film?

Answer 5

Out of Focus, canted angles, Red Filter and dark shadowing

Question 6

What are we being told about Eva within this shot and sequence?

Answer 6

Nostalgic for life before Kevin, cant escape guilt, she sacrificed her previous life (looks like she is on a cross)

Question 7

How is foreshadowing achieved within the opening sequences?

Question 8

How is Sound used during the opening to create disequilibrium for the spectator?

Answer 8

Oneric sounds of Screaming, gradual thudding of the arrows, loud horns from the festival