A Touch of Frost Essay

• Camera 
• Long Shot - billy being tracked through the woods at night - wrong doing. disability associated with deviant behavior.
• Low level long shot - police dog hunting for billy - supports idea of disability associated with wrong doing/dangerous behavior. narrative presents need for capture 
• Tracking medium long shot - follows billy who is oblivious to police
• Extreme close up - reaction shot display of billy's fright - shows disability as easily frightened, naive and vulnerable
• tracking shot - disability = threat
• medium three high angle shot meet billy's mother disability = child-like treatment
• high angle long 2 shot of billy and father,audience to look down on billy
• close up on cop, seen as reassuring, disability = child-like treatment
• high angle on billy, able bodied in control
• Mise en scene
• Actor positioning - open bodied stance seems genuine in contrast to disabled billy who is "Strange" disability associated with deviant behavior 
• dusting himself off - wrong doing
• low level shot, billy on the ground, audience see billy being over powered by police. disability represented as weak and/or in need of control
• police, crowd and police car - disability = threat
• holding washing bowl used for small children or the helpless disability = child-like treatment
• father kneels down, disability = child-like treatment
• low angle POV with close up on face = billy = suspicious of police
• head tilted, stereotype of often confused disability 
• billy doesn't look at audience - untrustworthy, dangerous
• Editing
• reinforced deviant behavior by low key lighting
• low key lighting casts shadow - evil, darkness, untrustworthy, dangerous
• SRS, close up and high key lighting shows able bodied as being trustworthy
• Sound
• Dialogue - "I didn't think there was anything strange... about Billy". sets context for disability to be seen as abnormal, able bodied underestimate those with a disability
• eerie non-diegetic sound - relates to horror genre
• dialogue - "I haven't done anything wrong" pleading and low level high angle shot of vulnerability being pulled up by collar - disability represented as pitiful and powerless
• dialogue - "mentally abnormal" "handicapped" "handicapped sorry" shows able bodied as ignorant about those with difficulties
• dialogue - "have someone with me in case I bend the rules" implies disability needing careful handling
• dialogue - father insistence on "handicapped" disability = child-like treatment
• dialogue - "we must've frightened you... all of a sudden police dogs and shoting" simplistic terms,  disability = child-like treatment
• dialogue - "I was frightened" able bodied in control

Essay

In the clip 'A Touch of Frost' the theme disability is represented as being vulnerable, deviant and out of control in comparison to those who are able bodied.

Firstly, disabled people are depicted as being people that are deviant in nature. The medium two shot in the first scene denoting Billy’s parents, shows them standing with open bodied stances. This connotes trustworthiness as they are being shown as people with nothing to hide. This is juxtaposed to the presentation of Billy in the scene whereby his mum says "I didn't think there was anything strange... about Billy". This sets the context for disabilities to be abnormal. This conforms to Shakespeare's The Medical Model where he states that within the media "disabilities are used to distance the audience from the disabled people as a show of the abnormalities that they show". Furthermore, in the preceding long shot showing Billy being tracked through the woods at night, he is seen dusting himself off. Both the abnormal sight of a person walking through the forest on his own at night, in conjunction with the fact that he is seen dusting himself off, connotes some sort of wrong doing action that Billy has done. In addition to this, this scene is inclusive of eerie non-diegetic music, which is typically associated with the genre of horror. Further on into the clip when Billy is talking to the police officer, the low-key lighting casts a shadow over his shoulder. This darkness symbolises evil natures, danger and an untrustworthy character. This further adds to the notion that disabled people are presented as dangerous seeing as the music, alongside side the suspicious nature of Billy’s location and actions which all started from his mothers foreboding comment, allow the audience to create the image that complies with the social conditioning factor of disabled people being deviant and dangerous.