My Movie evaluation- forms and conventions

Location

Throughout this opening scene, the shots used are all focused on Cindy. These focusing shots are all shot in her bedroom, and this is due to a bedroom symbolising 'intimacy' as it is the most private room in a house. Due to the opening scene being shot here, it tell the audience a lot about the character and subjects them to her problems instantly. It provides a insight into the characters characteristics when she is not putting up a front in front of other characters.
The way the room is laid out and the way she is walking in the space suggests Cindy to be a careless, depressive character, but the substance abuse that is later shown changes these movements as they become more dominant and uplifting as shown when Cindy stamps her food down. This shows her dependence on the substance for confidence, therefor creating a paradox between her objective and supper objective. Her objective being that she wishes to take another hit, and her supper objective to become more confident.
This location automatically makes the characters problems more noticeable to the audience due to her doing these things outside of socialising, which creates more of an impact for the audience to watch. Due to her substance abuse not being filmed whilst socialising, instantly illustrates that she is an uncomfortable character who needs help. These shots present Cindy as a character who cannot socialise independently and therefor highlight her problems more than if shown in a 'partying' environment.
This is why we have decided to change our location from the previous one as we wanted the opening scene to have more of an impact on the audience and we wanted them to understand Cindy's point of view before they make their own judgment on the character. By bringing the audience into an intimate space, they suddenly pay more attention to the things within the scene, due to the excitement they will feel in being in an environment that they aren't accustomed to, as every bedroom has its own individuality that is created by the one who lives in it. Because the audience is paying attention to the props and objects within the scene, this now creates a connection between the character and the audience as they might notice things that they do in their own home, or have objects that link to this opening scene. In having this connection, it allows the audience to feel emotions towards the character. Consequently, due to the audience now forming emotions towards the things they see, this now creates a more hard hitting narrative that they can reflect on.

Props and location visuals