This is evident as the extract shows the character with down syndrome Billy, walking in the woods before suddenly getting surrounded by a large number of police officers and then gets arrested after pleading repeatedly "I didn't do anything!" and questioned by an officer.
This is portrays disabled people like Billy as almost being inhuman and a threat to "normal people" as they ruthlessly hunt him down like some sort of runaway criminal or animal and this over exaggeratedly conforms the negative stereotype of people with down syndrome as well as mentally disabled people also.
This also shows a rather ridiculously exaggerated aspect on mentally disable people and the way that they are and possibly should be treated.
It shows that people like Billy with down syndrome do not have the same amount of freedom or even rights living in London and through this extract, it implies not even a stroll in the forest is allowed.
The use of cinematography helps to depict an aspect on mentally disabled people.
This is shown through the constant use of close up shots of Billy where he caught by the police and in the scene where he is interviewed.
Each close -up shot shows his reaction and facial expressions to imply and remind the viewer that he is still human,still understands speech and has an average mentality. This challenges its own portrayal of disabled people, as well as showing Billy as an outcast to society due to that fact that he was with no one, he is at the same time portrayed as a normal, average but misunderstood person. The use of the close-up shots also suggests that mentally disable people do have normal human emotions although they have Down's syndrome.
Also, in the story, an 8 year old girl had disappeared near the local woods, foul play is suspected as circumstances point to a seemingly harmless 20 year old with Down's Syndrome.
Billy Conrad happens to have Downs syndrome but is however still fairly accepted by the local children as a mate and lives at home with his loving parents.
However, the equilibrium is disrupted as it all starts to go wrong as he all of a sudden becomes a suspect for the murder of a little girl in the local area.
As the story progresses in the extract we learn more about Billy and discover the person behind the label. He is vilified, labelled, taunted, tolerated or championed, depending on the attitudes of the people concerned. Seeing these different approaches to Billy causes us to reflect inwardly about our own standpoints and outlook on people with Down's syndrome.
The 'Touch of Frost' extract uses cinematography to establish a portrayal of disability.
This is evident from the very beginning of the extract as it shows a series of mid shots of police in a dark woods searching and scouting around and the last shot of it all is of a mid-shot of a police officer and then the camera swiftly tilts down to the ground. Then the next shot is of Billy, a boy with Down's Syndrome, walking in the woods with the police behind him.
The use of the series of shots of the police searching first gives off this idea that they may be tracking down some sort of animal as the use of the mid-shots show the officers looking down at the ground, then we cut to a mid shot of the officer with a hound then tilts to the view of the ground which reinforces the idea of them tracking down some sort of animal as they look at the foot prints.
Then the use of it cutting to Billy with the police behind him which immediately implies that they are in fact looking for him and this creates an exaggerated and rather offensive aspect on people with Down's Syndrome because it depicts them as animals and almost as a danger to the public. Furthermore, this heavily and unfairly d
The 'Touch of Frost' extract uses cinematography to establish a portrayal of disability.
This is evident from the very beginning of the extract as it shows a series of mid shots of police in a dark woods searching and scouting around and the last shot of it all is of a mid-shot of a police officer and then the camera swiftly tilts down to the ground. Then the next shot is of Billy, a boy with Down's Syndrome, walking in the woods with the police behind him.
The use of the series of shots of the police searching first gives off this idea that they may be tracking down some sort of animal as the use of the mid-shots show the officers looking down at the ground, then we cut to a mid shot of the officer with a hound then tilts to the view of the ground which reinforces the idea of them tracking down some sort of animal as they look at the foot prints.
Then the use of it cutting to Billy with the police behind him which immediately implies that they are in fact looking for him and this creates an exaggerated and rather offensive aspect on people with Down's Syndrome because it depicts them as animals and almost as a danger to the public. Furthermore, this heavily and unfairly d
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