Monday 11 March 2013

TV Drama - Representation of Disability/Ability

Representation: Homework 

Please complete the following questions this week for homework. We are looking at the representation of disability/ ability.

You should also remember that you are selecting your own extract to present to the class in the next double lesson. Please be prepared to say something about it in terms of its' representation.

Consider the stereotypes of disabled people. The BFI site has some interesting material on this which you can research.


Extract 1: 






Make notes on the representation of disability/ability in this extract. You should watch the extract at least 3 times for this work and in your notes refer to camera, editing, miss-en-scene and sound.

Extract 2:




As above make good notes on the representation of ability/ disability in this extract.

Extract 3: