We can also see from this scene presentational devices being used on Mrs.Tweedie, as she is the one that opens the door. When she opens the door all the light comes from behind her head. This means that the audience can’t see her face, making her look sinister and frightening. A low angle camera shot is used to get this effect that Mrs.Tweedie is towering over you but you can’t see her face. This makes the audience feel intimidated of her. Finally her body language at this point is very threatening, as she has her hands on her hips and glaring down at Ginger. You can’t see much of her face, but what you can see is Mrs.Tweedie’s eyes and eye brows. They are glaring down at Ginger evilly.
Another way we see Mrs.Tweedie is plain evil is the use of music in the scene when she inspects the chickens for there eggs. The bell in the chicken pen goes off and all the chickens hurriedly rush into line for inspection. Then Mrs.Tweedie walks out to the chickens it’s similar the scene in Star wars when Darth Vader walks onto the Death Star. The music is sinister and the chickens are lined up at the side. We see that the chickens are trembling and look down rite scared. The music used starts of evil and quite. Then as Mrs.Tweedie walks down the line it gets louder and faster but still sounding evil and building tension. It keeps building up the tension until she gets to a chicken called Edwina. The music goes DUN DUN DUN! And which makes the audience feel whats going to happen now as Mrs.Tweedie looks down at her chart to see an absent of eggs from Edwina. She then looks down at Edwina who is shaking like mad and looking terrified. Then a low angle camera shot of Mrs.Tweedie’s face smiling evilly.
And Mrs.Tweedie takes her to the chop. This makes us feel upset that a chicken ids going to die.
In this scene we see a combination of two presentational devices. Sound affects and a close up. In the scene Mrs.Tweedie has taken a chicken called Edwina to the chop. Ginger is watching from the roof of a chicken hut. As Edwina is laid down on the chopping block the camera moves up so you see the shadow of what’s happening. As Mrs.Tweedie’s hand shadow holding the axe shadow lines up and strikes, the camera does a close up on gingers face. Then you hear a sound effect of an axe thump, and Ginger’s head drops and she looks upset, we know that she feels responsible for all the chickens escaping, this making the audience feel sad for her and all the chicken’s loss.
Setting is another key presentational device. An example of this is when Ginger realizes Rocky is a fake. When Ginger goes to put up the second half of the ‘Rocky the Flying Roster’ poster which shows Rocky is shot from a cannon, every one looks like they’re about to cry. It makes the audience feel sad for the chickens. The whole atmosphere is sad and it starts to rain. This emphasizes that the atmosphere is crying for the chickens creating an even more somber mood.
In one scene three presentational devices rolled into one. This is when the Tweedies are unloading the machinery. Mrs.Tweedie gets out a saw blade in this cramped she area. Mrs.Tweedie starts to talk about the fate of the chickens. As she does this she spins the saw blade round and looks at her self in the reflection of the spinning saw blade, whilst it’s making this awesome and evil ‘shing’ noise all the time she’s talking. Mr.Tweedie looks very nervous and this makes the audience think that Mrs.Tweedie is very violent and that there is no chance of even an ounce of good coming out this women.
In conclusion we know that Mrs.Tweedie her time. You only have to watch the film for five minutes to realize this. She is that evil!
We also see that Ginger is the complete opposite. A good person and a determined leader. Finally she puts others before herself.
By Will Cocks