Sisters in Law Task 3

How do the directors use aesthetics (I.e. the ‘look and feel’ of the film) to create a specific message for the audience? – By avoiding an attempt to depict Kumba Town in a glamorous manner, the social realism presenting the area as an underdeveloped and poverty-high part of Cameroon is reinforced in order to emphasise to audiences what kind of conditions the subjects of the documentary are living in. This links to Longinotto’s auteur trademark of observational filmmaking.

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