The Simpsons - Cape Feare - Jess D'Alvarez

Restricted Narrative is used in this episode of The Simpsons because the audience do not know why Sideshow Bob wants to kill Bart, therefore the audience are left to make up their own story as to why they think Sideshow Bob wants to kill Bart.

This is a good over the shoulder shot because you can see what Bart is reading and you can also see some of his facial expression, which is that he looks scared because of the letter he has just received. The writing is written in red, which is instantly thought to be blood because of what is written on the letter and due to the effect of the blood dripping, that we can see from this picture.







This is a long shot, 2-shot because you can see the whole of the characters bodies. The lighting in this shot is interesting as the opened door seems to have cast a shadow on the wall, which makes the shot seem darker and scarier, this is an example of low key lighting. Bart looks terrified and you can see this by looking at the position he is standing in and how he is clutching his bed covers and wanting to pull them over himself to hide. Typically, in a thriller, there is a weapon, which seems to me a knife in this picture, however the weapon changes throughout the programme.



In this shot the weapon changes to a sword. Again Sideshow Bob's expression in this shot is very angry, however the audience still doesn't know why he wants to kill Bart. From this shot you can tell that it is set at night, which makes it seem scarier because there is no one around to save Bart from being killed.








I think this is a fantastic shot and shows Barts facial expression extremely well. It shows that he is terrified of what might happen to him and I think that the way his hands are positioned shows that he just wants to pull the cover over him and for everything to go away.

• In one particular shot Bart was standing behind the bars of a climbing frame. At first the audience only see Bart behind the bars, which raises questions as to why Bart is behind bars? What has he done wrong? This is an example of enigma code because it raises questions in the viewers' minds. However the whole of the shot is then revealed and the audience find out that he was in fact behind a climbing frame.
• In another shot, the camera moves from a birds eye view of The Simpson house to a birds eye view of the prison, of which the audience know that Sideshow Bob is currently at, this shows that the two characters are near and again raises questions in the viewers' minds of what will happen.
• When it moved to the shot of the prison, thunder and lightening appeared, which reinforces the idea that prison is a bad place and thunder and lightening are usually associated with bad things.