representation of disability

REPRESENTING DISABLED

STARTER

To analyse shots, sound, editing & m-e-s in scenes.

To identify stereotyping of people with disabilities.

• Take the disability awareness quiz.

• How disability aware are you?

• How are disabled people stereotypically represented in the media?

Stereotype of people with disabilities

How did the London 2012 Paralympics change the representation of disability in the U.K media?

Countertype of people with disabilities

Analyse this…

• You are going to watch a scene from Secret Diary of a Call Girl, in which the call girl is visited by a disabled boy.

• Watch the clip and make a note of the use of shot, sounds, editing & m-e-s by circling type of shot and sounds used and writing a brief description of them.

Wide shot shows the boy in his

wheelchair at the door of the flat.

The clip

Question:

• Would you say that the representation of people with disabilities is a stereotype or a countertype?

• How is this representation conveyed? (shot, sound, editing, m-e-s)

• What effect does this representation have on the audience?