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Second Response:

In the last episode of the first season of Outrageous Fortune, Cheryl West has changed slightly in seeming to have lost a lot of the power and determination she had at the very beginning of the season. Some of the initial predictions were fulfilled throughout the episode, but generally her character seemed to have lost some of her force, which we can see from the use of Camera angles and Costume.

Camera angles are very important in the process of creating a film or television show. One angle is a low angle shot, which is where the camera looks up at the subject, giving a sense of power, dominance and intimidation to the subject, while a high angle shot makes the character look a lot more vulnerable and small. In the first episode of this television show, low angle shots were used commonly when it came to Cheryl, but in this last episode there were a lot of high angles to show the loss of strength and determination in her character. An example of this is a scene in which Cheryl is sitting on the bedroom floor of Van, who has left home, and the camera is looking down on her to emphasize the sadness and powerlessness that she feels. We're influenced by this high angel shot to come to the conclusion that somehow throughout the course of the season, Cheryl has slowly started to lose the intimidation she possessed in the beginning of the show, and has become a more desperate character, trying to still be the same person as before but struggling, as a lot of things have occurred that have taken their tole greatly on Cheryl. 

Costume is very important in the process of creating a film or television show, as it helps give us the idea of the characteristics and personality that the character possesses. In this narrative, costume is used to give us an impression of the character Cheryl and give us an understanding of the kind of person she is. In the first episode, Cheryl dresses neatly and puts an effort into the way she looks and comes across, and it's clear that she cares about the way in which people see her and what they think of her, and an example of this in the scene where Jethro is having his capping. In the last episode of the season, Cheryl also seems to have lost the desire to put a lot of effort into the way she dresses. An example of this is also the scene in which Cheryl is sitting on Van's bedroom floor. She doesn't seem to be dressed in any particular way, and doesn't care about the way she's dressed, because it's become something that doesn't bother her as much as it used to, and there are more important things to her than just being dressed well for other people. 

Overall, these two narrative features, Camera angles and Costume, aided in showing the development of the character, and also the kind of things that are likely to occur in the future for her. Cheryl has seemed to lose some of the strong-will she had a lot of when we first saw her in episode one, but has still remained an important character in the narrative, although her role is being met by other characters, such as her daughter Loretta. Cheryl has become a more laid back version of the person she was in the first episode, but still holds a fair amount of the punch that she used to have that there is a subtle lack of in the last episode of the season.