Winter's Bone Notes

• Men have ultimate power over women
• The town is influenced by drugs, shown when Teardrops wife offers Ree a 'duby' 
• Took two years to find the location areas, real areas
• Hardly anything created by set designers 
• Shot in pedestrian places 
• Rural, rustic looking locations
• The costume design was done by doing a clothes shop with people in the community and at charity shops etc, nothing was brought new 
• Super 8 camera used during the scene where the trees are being cut down 
• It takes active spectatorship to understand why no one trusts Ree 
• No non-diegetic sound so the audience must be active to understand the mood and must feel emotion for themselves 
• Half shadow face to show the serious characteristic of Teardrop. 
• Teardrop is more intimidating and scary that the policeman and scares him away by showing a gun, indicating he will do something bad 
• Teardrop puts himself infant of the gun and Ree and takes ownership and protects her 
• Active spectatorship to try and understand what the policeman did and why teardrop has some sort of power and hold over the policeman 
• Everyone in the community seems to know what happened to Ree's father apart from her 
• the lens flare shows the low budget and production used for this film, gives a more realistic film to the film
• Teardrops swearing shows the language that the entire community uses 
• the mies-en-scene in teardrops home shows a lot of drug use and animal resemblence