Disability - Homework

Representation of Disability

What stereotypes are being represented?The stereotype of disability is being represented in this sequence by a man with a scared face and no hand.
Are they positive or negative? how do you know this?It is a negative representation of disability as the man in the sequence, is looked at differently than everybody else. We see that he is only allowed his job back with minimum wage, which we can see he is very angry about this. He is also seen as ugly, as when he is trying to join the army but isnt allowed because of his disability, the man behind the desk agrees that he is ugly and kind of makes fun of him.

There are a lot of close-ups of his face in the sequence. One is when he is asking the men for his job back. This is so the audience can see right away what is wrong with him and why he is different, which we can see straight away that his face has been burnt. There is also another close up when the man is helping the woman pick up her shopping off the floor, showing us why the woman yelped.
There is handheld camera work when he is asking for his job back, this adds effect to the anger he is feeling when they say he can’t.
When the worker and the disabled man are having the conversation from within the car there is a two shot, this shows us that the two men are engaged in conversation and no one else is involved.

There are diagetic sounds which are ambient sounds such as the people working and moving around in the background, speaking, things being lifted and footsteps, this is to add realism in the sequence and to make it realistic.
There is non diagetic sounds as there is a soundtrack in the background as the disabled man is walking down the street. The back ground music is parallel as we can see it relates to the mood of the disabled man going down the street as we can see he is angry after he has just been told he can only have minumum wage and we can tell this in his tone of voice, also everyone else is staring at him in the street which is making him even angrier.

Not much editing is used in this sequence, it is all simple. Cut aways are used to cut from each scene and character to the next. We see in the Army Centre that the disabled man is sitting in a chair talking to the other man. We can only see one side of his face for a short period of time.  At the beginning of the sequence it is a long shot duration whilst the two men are having a conversation and someone else comes and joins in. This may be because it was introducing to the audience the situation that is going on and to give us full understanding of what is happening. Long shot duration is also used when the man is walking up the street away from the woman, he is walking quickly which shows his anger.There is also short shot duration throughout which also helps with the narrative such as when the woman is getting the food shopping out of the car.

Mis-en-scene is used in the sequence to create realism. The costumes of the characters are simple and normal clothes. The disabled man is wearing normal clothes just like any other man would which shows he is just the same as everyone else and challenges the stereotype. Makeup is used for the man with the burns on his face to show us what is wrong with him and it looks very realistic. The makeup is quite dramatic which is to make it more realistic and to add drama.The locations in the sequence are realistic. There is no major props used in this sequence except the van the man is in the beginning, the car the woman is getting out of and her shopping bags. The lighting is all natural in the sequence except for when they are inside the Army Centre where the burnt side of the mans face is in the artificial light.