Contextualizing

These varying abuses have their own greatly distinctive way of being shown on screen. For the instance of physical abuse, there is the overpowering shot of the male character, beating his wife savagely, because he can not hold his temper and abuses his right to drink alcohol by becoming drunk and doing a completely inhuman thing to his partner.        

In the story about sexual abuse, the male strikes his partner to make her submissive, so she does as he wants, which is not what she wants to do because she knows the outcome. She knows that after she dresses like the sexual object he views her as, he will have his way with her. This is the result, and an image is made using sound, and the viewer makes up the rest of the story through what can be heard but not seen. This shows the power that sound can have when telling a gruesome narrative; it does not need to be viewed to draw emotion and have its desired effect.                                  

On the point of using sound to our advantage to create a mood in the psychological abuse story, we decided to use headphones to consume the audio. This is contrasted to the loud and chaotic presentation of the other stories. This is because psychological abuse is in the head and we wanted a far more personal and intimate feeling using headphones. Closeups were utilised when the male character thought about what his partner would say when he was only trying to express himself. These were shot to bring that intimidating feeling and discomfort the male character is feeling from this barrage of abuse.                                

Throughout the scene shot in the café, the female character lays down her assault onto her male partner. She abuses him the entire time about not being financially able. This is a savage and a difficult type of abuse to overcome, because it is generally out of the financially incapable persons’ control, as someone else is not choosing them for employment. The female’s character is not understanding of this and is being selfish. This strong character is thanks to a well-rounded script with powerful dialogue for one character and less for the other, the perfect way to contrast one character to another and raise one higher than the other.

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