Poppy's Film Studies

How far does "Winter's Bone" rely upon an understanding of its social context? An example of Winter's Bone social context would be strongly seen when Ree goes to visit Teardrop while looking for her dad. For Winter's Bone the social context is that they live in a society where the men are in charge and the women have to follow what they say, this is the society they are forced to live in and its very patriarchal and controlled. For Ree this is different as she lives in a female based how due towards the absence of her father so she has to be the controlling one and is the main support of the family. As she enters the house she needs to ask permission to come in, the man of the house is the one that needs to confirm wether the women can come in. This is the social reality that the women have to face in this way of living, the women are objectified and have to do domestic chores around the house while the men work and come home and do nothing, the women are bosse...

While making this short film there was quite a few ups and downs with; working together, the planning and I think just the whole execution and process of the film was difficult as a whole, but we managed to pull through and make this work. All three of us didn't know each other and what our strengths were when going into this for the first time, but we where able to adapt and be able to use each other's ideas effectively. We came up with the idea straight away and was able to figure out what did and didn't work and support each other's ideas, we supported and adapted situations to how we could make it work and exchanged knowledge such as; working a camera, editing, the relation to the mise-en-scene and to how we want the film, scenes to look and the overall outcome. I think when we started we where all very excited and fired up and being all "This is going to be so easy" but it wasn't, we had to think about; Costumes, concept, costumes, the meaning and ...