Particular meanings that can be drawn from a feminist reading of Shakespeare's King Lear are put forward by Eyre specifically through the use of camera techniques. Eyre has deliberately never placed the female characters in a shot of their own and he has added his own interpretation of male dominance by adding exact movements when Albany throws Gonerill on the floor after discovering her feelings for Gloucester's bastard son, Edmond.
Elliott, on the other hand, presents the more traditional meaning of the play, putting emphasis on the family feud and the idea of nature as an element of human behaviour. By using simple colours and props, Elliott resembles a stage like production. Via the use of close up camera shots and an extensive fighting scene, the sub-plot becomes the focus. Importance is placed on the discovery of Edgar's identity when Elliott decides to zoom in quickly from a long shot of Edgar's whole body, where he is positioned in the middle of the frame, to a close-up of his masked face as he enters the fight scene. This technique is used to draw the audience into the mystery and suspense of Edgar's character. Similarly, at this point in Shakespeare's original play, Edgar's character is at an unpredictable stage of characterisation.
Throughout the fighting sequence, Elliott has used overhead shots and tracking to show the physical action of this scene, and combined this with eye level medium shots and close ups of Regan, Edmond and Edgar to show the emotion and reactions of each character. Through this sequence of close-ups Elliott also establishes Regan's evil nature, by showing her enjoyment in watching the fight.
The final sequence in Elliott's production involves a camera panning out from a close up of Lear and Cordelia to a high angle shot showing them in the middle of a circle of guards which are standing within a structure that resembles Stonehedge. This is making a link to the idea in the original play that Lear had to be striped down to the bare essentials for him to realise what it is to be naturally human.