Disability

Disability Representation-

In 1998, Evans talked about the representation of disabled people in media, he said that ‘Disabled people are seen as childish, dependant and underdeveloped and are regarding as ‘other’ and are punished by being excluded from ordinary life.’ This extract supports as well as breaks these ideas, through the use of

This extract, from Diary of a Call Girl, opens with a mid-shot of the woman opening the door, with the diegetic sound of this action. This shot then tilts down to more of a high angle shot showing the disable male in his wheelchair. This shot first establishes that the extract will be about this disable person, through both the camera and the mis-en-scene of his wheelchair. The tilt and high angle already show that the audience must look down on him, showing him as inferior to the others in the scene, already supporting the theory of Evans.

This extract uses many tilts in different situations throughout. Whenever it moves to look at the boy it tilts down to look at him, creating the high angle, and then tilts up to look at others, creating a low angle. This low angle connotes that these people are more important and should be looked up to, more than the boy in the wheelchair, which the audience is made to look down upon. This cuts between eye level mid shots of each person, as well as over the shoulder shots, mostly from behind the woman. These over the shoulder shots are used, like the tilts, are used to look down upon the boy, but from the perspective from the woman. This shows that not only the audience are to look down on him, but the woman does also.