Eden lake case study 4

Eden lake

Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Revealing in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's belongings and vandalises their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her young pursuers and find her way out of the woods.

Horror conventions used are at the beginning are a enigma as behind the sign of Eden lake there is a more threatening message behind it although the characters don't see it the audience do.in the opening credits there is a screaming women covered in blood and this shows the tone of what the film will entail.The digetic music in the film also helps to add a visceral feel to the film other bits in the film that provoke a reaction are when he is getting stabbed and it shows the wounds and when the spike goes through her foot.The lighting is dark and you cannot see much which adds to the fear factor.


Jenny when we first meet her she seems kind,innocent and posh.Her boyfriend Steve seems flirty,kind and rich.The teenagers are made out in a bad light as they are a disruption in the peaceful scenery of Eden lake.There is one leader in the gang and he well and truly dictates what the gang do.Later on in the film Steve and Jenny switch places with Jenny becoming the alpha male and not the damsel in distress.She goes from being clean and tidy to so dirty she looks unhuman and acts unhuman at one point.When she comes out of the bin and stabs that boy that is when she acts unhuman.

There are many different angles and shots used throughout the film.There are many shots such as point of view, montage, vignette,privileged shot,voyeuristic,worm shot,aerial shot,dolly shot,continuous shot,wide shot,one shot,reverse shot,crane shot,360 degree shot and switch angle.A specific example of a camera angle is the crane shot when they are travelling over the forest and it does this three or four times.An example of these shots are when it shows them in the tent and the chavs nearby and this is a wide shot.Over the shoulder is used when she looks in the mirror and it shows her all muddy and bloody and she looks unhuman the mirror can also represent her reflecting on her choices,acts and the deaths of the gang and Steve.Visceral moments are throughout when Steve is getting cut by the gang the amount of blood and pain he is going through provokes a reaction from the audiences and when the spike goes through Jenny's foot this also is a squeamish moment and provokes a visceral moment.