Spectator Position

Our spectator position is very important when reading and interpreting film. These include;

. Weather or are alone or with company. If you watch a film with a parent you may react differently to when you watch it on your own because of content or that they dislike your film taste. 

. Where you are, if you watch it on the tube on the way to work watching a rom-com you won't cry the way you would sitting on the sofa under a mountain of blankets. 

. Depending on what you watch it on, if you watch it on your mobile it will not have such an impact on you as it would if you saw it in the cinema. 

. Sometimes watching a film or before we will do research on the background, watch the trailer, this will effect or views and opinions of the film before we see it. This also depends on the reception theory too. Many films can influence us to do things afterwards. 

When I watch "Like Crazy" i am normally watching it on my laptop in bed with a cup of tea and tissue at the ready. I don't normally research into a film however i do watch the trailers before hand. I remember i was on the tube and i kept seeing posters for Like Crazy and just the one image drew me straight in.I didn't first see it in the cinema but now i really wish i did because i would of fallen in love with it even quicker. I personally do not think i could ever fully enjoy watching a film on my mobile, it doesn't have the same draw to me that a cinema, tv or laptop would do. 


David Lynch said that "playing a movie on a phone... you won't experience it" 

He also that you are being cheated into thinking of having the experience of a film while watching it on your phone. 


I completely agree with Lynch because something that small can't hold your attention, it can't capture the beautiful essence of film like bigger devices can.