"The Binary opposition that we applied to our film opening is good v bad. With this in mind we wanted to highlight the positive characters from the negative. The young girl called Lily who gets kidnapped was the positive character along with her father showing a strong connection between both characters. This will help position the audience to feel the close connection between Spencer and Lily so when she is kidnapped they will feel sympathetic towards Spencer. Joseph the name of the villain in the opening is represented as a negative character due to the choice of clothing that he wears. Although it is not clear within the final video because of the low-key lighting, Joseph wears a suit and a balaclava. This is the stereotypical outfit that a ‘thief’ would wear often when committing a robbery of hiding their identify connotes to the audience that he is in fact the villain."
"Lily was represented as a positive character through her colourful clothing connoting to the audience that she is happy and lively child. Her child like figures including her height and age express to the audience that she is vulnerable and unable to fend for herself highlighting which will cause the audience to feel anger towards the kidnapper as she cannot protect herself. Spencer was represented as a stereotypical father. With his casual bland clothing it showed that he was a ‘boring’ father that children offer refer to their father as. It is clear that Spencer is single father as he makes Lily dinner and there is no appearance of a mother type figure which allows the audience to notice this factor making them feel sympathetic towards them."
Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_opposition
Round The Bend via youtube.
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