How is disability represented?

   

In this episode of The Street, disability is being represented in a very negative way. Generally when we think of someone with a disability we atomatically think... Wheel chair bound, someone with loss of limbs, or blind/deaf. But here we are looking at a man with severe burns to his face, neck and hand.
Here we see, the him facing day to day obstacles because of his disability, and the facing up to the fact he's no longer classed as 'normal'. The sence of disability being negative is evedent throughout the cilp, at the start of the clip, when the man is in the builders yard with this ex work mates, us the audience our looking through 'bars', bars are shown several times. This can mean that the man feels trapped within himself now he is classed as disabled. Also the at the begining the image of the man is blured, this gives me the impression that he is being classed as an outsider by his now ex work mates.
As the image is unblurred the first shot we see of the man, is the side of his face that is unscared. As the conversation esculates between him and the other men, fast pace editing is used to show the emotions on all the faces of the men, showing us what the characters see (POV). then the camera angle is changed. Therefore showing us the burnt side of his face. Immediately the audience have a bad/shocked reaction, but then sympathise and have pity upon the man. The camera focuses on the burnt/scared side of his face using close ups. Close ups are used to make you feel sympathy again but  guilty because of it. Pity is shown to be the emotion that the man doesn't want from anyone. And anyone shown to be giving him sympathy angers him and a tense atmospher is created instantly.
As he is rejected by his ex work mates he is shown walking away, the image is then again blurred and the figure of the man is shown behind 'bars'. This shows that he has made no progress and can again signify the fact he is trapped within his disability and is struggling to move on in his life as it is now. In this scene nothing but digetic sound is used to show the importance of what is being said/done. And the emotion it is causing the man.
Then it cuts to the section of the clip where the woman is shown with her two sons, getting their shopping out of the taxi. It shows mid-shots of the three of them slowly getting wider to then include the man running up the street, and going out of his way to help them out. A wide angle shot is used to show the street, also show the lack of cars, and close proximity of the houses with a industrial background. The street could be a part of a council estate/ or a poor area. I get this impression from the fact the woman is using a taxi, maybe she can't afford to buy her own car. The camera then switches from a wide shot to an extreme close-up, the extreme close up is focused on his face but only for a split second to show the audience what the woman has just seen to give the reaction she has. Fast pace editing is then again used here to show the reactions of each of their faces in turn. The close up of the man after shows alot of sadness, and shock that he made a friend of his so scared, with his own face. Again the audience will feel pity/sympathy for the man at this point.
The close-up of the woman shows instant regret for what she's just done, and she goes on to justify that it wasn't the sight of his face that made her jump, but was that fact that she didn't expect anyone to be there that made her scream. Non-diagetic sounds of military music suggesting he is a man on a mission/ finding it hard to cope with what the army has done to him.
The camera then cuts to the man in army office, talking to one of the corporals. The conversation is heated and the man is very emotional/angered. The phrase "scare the shit out of the enemy" is used, this makes us think he is talking about is burnt/scared face. We instantly again feel sad/sympathy for the man, even more so now because we have some idea of what he has been through and the obstacles he is facing to regaine a normal life.




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