Behind the child - high colours, low perspective/POV, doesn't really explain much, like what the character experiences. Only effects change at end. Everything colourful and vibrant - fast cuts show this
Active spectatorship
Question the dominant ideology
Dislike the people over the levy, who are us
Don't value modern medicine 'plugged in the wall'
Once with nature, dank, uncivlised but happy - makes us think about the way we treat children and childhood
Positioning
Camera always at a low angle
Narration - Hushpuppy's POV. Almost replaces dialogue. Doesn't tell her whats happening but how she feels - her emotions. Not expository. Rationalising/talking to herself, not audience. Doesn't actually know whats going on, sets up childish narration by talking about animals 'pooping'. Ie brother - is she her mum + when Wink comes out of hospital she assumes he's wearing a dress + bracelet
A lot of enigmas aren't resolved. Is it her mum, are the Aurochs real?
One flashback with Wink's perspective. Went from thinking that he's possibly an abusive father to being a depserate figure, knows he won't be around for much longer.
Spectator response
Non-professional actors make us see characters not actors
Spectatorship can make you think about loads of different things - slightly different negotiated reading
Specatorship - write about active and passive, and find sequences that switch between them. Talk about identification and alignment of narrative positioning, audience expectations and how it plays on spectatorship, spectatorship is ideological and so depends on the individual on what they'd get (ie what they've watched and where they're from), spectatorship issues in terms of what is real and what isn't, is the setting good or not
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