Episode 2: Audience Positioning

Main focus: Brody

Other focuses: Carrie and Saul

The title sequence - Suggests that Carrie has always aimed on finding the truth in her life. Other significant scenes are the maze in the title sequence. This connotes that she knows something about Brody but she just can't see it.

· The camera angle being at Brody's level with him digging up the grave suggests that we're down at his level and the terrorists at this point are the bad ones. It positions the audience to feel sorry for Brody.

· With Brody with his family in the morning, the camera is lowered and he is presented at the front. This suggests that it wants the audience to see an orthodox family system with him being the leader and protector.

· There is also privileged access to Brody's thoughts and nightmares. This positions the audience extremely close and completely follow the character inside his head. It creates a sense of feeling like he is a victim as well.

· Audience imagining - the process of identification.

· With Brody assaulting his wife in his sleep, the audience is positioned to feel sorry for the family with his struggles being genuinely sorry about the assault.

· In the prison cell, a lowered medium shot is presented with flash backs becoming more frequent in this episode. Dramatic non diegetic music is also playing in these scenes to build a tension.

· Brody chokes the paparazzi- This was a military or terrorist learnt move suggesting what he can be capable of. With the son also seeing him it creates tension between the families.

· When he runs into the woods, the camera doesn't follow him in. It only shows him coming back out the other side. This has fast paced music to go with it as well.

· With the shopping scene, the audience is positioned behind Brody the whole time, suggesting that we are following him un-noticed about the find out his true colours.

· Brody has been positioned (when the family is eating) at the head of the table showing he still has that father input into the house hold.

· When Brody approaches his son, the lighting in the room is darkened on Brody's face with his son being completely lit. This is a suggestion and positions the audience to feel that the son sees him as a stranger after 8 years.

· With Brody putting on his uniform and going to the press, non-diegetic music begins to play giving Carrie an opportunity to prove that there is something wrong about him. The audience is positioned to see this and recognise that he is playing the hero card.

Carrie's toe nails are also significant with them only being half done. The audience is positioned to take this in as a metaphor for her job being only half done. In which this suggests there is more to find out.

Saul's cinematography positions the audience to show he is not worried. The lighting is darkened on one side of his face to connote that he also has a dark side in which he is hiding. He also has confident body language creating a sense of mystery about his past.