1) I would need some background research on the topic, also get in contact with the polices that where in charge of studying this case, also contact some detectives for having more information, and is very important some photos from the family in the past to make some suspense and make the audience think about it. Some family films, from them, when they were young.
2). There’s no Non-dialectic sound so this shows that it’s real the interview. There’s a shot of an empty meeting room. With its explanation.There are shots from country court jury room, but with no one inside. This is another way of producing symbolic images. They used filming from the family, and this they did so for showing how was the family, if they where normal or strange people, the maker lived this to the audience criteria.
3) When someone talks they show the jury room, because it’s for the viewer to imagine this scene. This is because they don’t have the footage of what is going on. They show some pictures, with zoom in, old pictures. They showed representative shots of being in prison. Also they showed real news footages from the time this had happened. And films from the judges, and the lawyers, showing them in their offices, showing their professionalism. They also showed several shots of separation between dad and son, in sequence.
They used some diagetic sound at the end of the story for making some of hope and happiness to this horrible story, of where Jesse goes out from jail, and also by this, he finds her mother 30 years later from the sentence and by this, they had created some of emotional features for audience.
They did not have used one narrator, because they wanted to show lots of perspectives from the story, and all the truth that the ones who were interviewed had said. So the director leaves to the audience the choice to think what they wanted about this case, and have doubts, making one perfect suspense.
4) the ideas that the film-makers want the audience to have in mind is all the things that have come up to the truth, and all the facts which are in doubt, as for example one question I have from this story is: why the children did not yelled for help, because they feel pain at those circumstances, and also why no one had said nothing about it earlier, also why did the children had chosen that class for the year after. So everything is very confusing.
