This post is about disability represented within "A Touch of Frost" and how it's represented through different camera shots. This could give us ideas on how to show disability in our thriller opening if we decide to do so, giving us ideas as well for shots we could use anyway.
In a clip I’ve watched from the series, A Touch of Frost,
where I’m focusing on the character Billy and how disability can be represented
in TV dramas, which seems odd yet they are portrayed in different ways for
definite. I’ll be mostly looking at the camera angles used though within the
clip I’ve seen in order to show how he is presented. There seems to be a shot of Billy at the
start, being tracked using a long shot which allows the audience to follow his
trail as he dusts himself off during this scene. This could hint at something
suspicious has happened. A couple of minutes later, there is then a close up of
Billy’s face, showing a sense of fear upon it as though he is a deer caught in
the headlights of a car, like he is a victim.
It is noticed that when the father and inspector enter the
room Billy is in and they’re sat down, there is a two person shot of the father
and Billy in the same scene, this can almost show that Billy needs someone with
him as when it shows the inspector, he doesn’t have anyone else in his shot,
almost showing that he doesn’t need anyone or any support. Yet looking back at
Billy and his father, it almost appears like his father is babying him by being
in this shot with him. A little later on, it shots Billy in a low angle shot,
showing him as almost inferior to the inspector and being judged in a way, but
it almost shows him as being vulnerable once more and can also hint at him
having down syndrome.
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