How sound helps to construct the representation of disability

At the beginning of the clip there is no real sound track it just goes straight into dialogue. The reason for having no sound track is because this could make the situation look less awkward than the program wants it to look, therefore at the beginning all the audience hears is dialogue.The dialogue between the three characters is usually unfinished because the subjects they are talking about are to awkward to talk about for long.

The sound of the locking of the door has been enhanced to show the audience how insecure the boy is about having the door locked. The opera music being played from the car is diegetic and is the opposite to how the dad is feeling. The music is a fast happy beat, but the dad is feeling anxious and not so happy. It reminds the audience of how the dad is feeling about his sons disability and the situation he is in in the flat.

The sound bridge between the non diagetic sound track played from the scene of the dad in his van over to the lad in the bedroom with the girl helps create a mood of seduction. When he mentions hes never been touched like that, the music playing makes you feel sympathy towards him. when the sound track is playing when the dad is in the van it too makes you feel sympathy for him and his sons disability. The harmonica is being used to play this sound track as it makes the scene seem sad and gives the clip a much slower pace.

Editing - construct the representation of disability

Transitioning from the woman to the disabled boy then up to his father helps make the audience feel the awkwardness between the three. Showing all the charectors faces separately emphasizes the awkwardness they are experiencing around the young boys disability.

Match on action is used when the father picks his son up out of his wheelchair, this makes the action look more realistic, a seem-less action that draws the audience into noticing that the young boy has genuine problems with standing up.

continuity editing is used throughout the clip to keep the clip smooth running and easy for the audience to establish how awkward the situation is because of the mans disability.

The eye line match from when the shot is of the  boy sitting in bed too the girl locking the door emphasizes to the audience the boys sense of insecurity and worry. If the boy was not disabled he would perhaps not be this cautious and the woman would not have felt as awkward about locking her door.

Shot reverse shot is used in this clip because it shows how fast the pace is between the two characters and it makes the audience feel like the two characters are trying to respond quickly to clear the awkward silence that there has been around the boys disability.

The cross cutting between the boy in bed and his dad in his van represents the boys disability because it is showing how nervous his dad is because of it. Without this cross cut the audience may not be aware of why the dad is so fidgety  for because it could look like a different situation in the clip, but it shows that the two are linked.

The use of the series of jump shots speeds the clip up of the father sitting in his van and shows the actions he has performed in that time, from playing the radio, to playing with the windows and honking the horn. This again shows how nervous he is about his son not being in his comfort zone and having someone else look after  his son and his disability.

Camera analysis of monarch of the glen - representation off age

A strong way in where the camera shots in monarch of the glen represent age is where the 16 year olds age is revealed. As soon as the audience is made aware that she still goes to school there is a dramatic increase in the number of low angle shots. Low angle shots of other characters give the audience the feeling of being her and her age, making you feel smaller and less powerful than the adults around you.

After the young girl crashes the car the camera is a two shot. It is a medium close up of the two males but a close up of the 16 year olds face. This shows the height difference and makes the girl look very young and innocent as if she’s hiding behind her father. When the camera returns to the head teacher it is a medium shot. The camera pans from the girls face up to the man then down to her again, this shows the audience how small she is thus representing how old she is.

When the two males go into the office the camera is moving on a dolly very slowly to show the audience how grown up/masculine the room is. This camera movement is best suited for this scene because the audience cant help but notice the objects such as the drink glass and desk, this represents the males age.

In the young girls bedroom the camera tilts down from her photos, then down to her hand written note. This is done to show her typical girly bedroom. It reveals her pink coloured wall paper perhaps making her out to be a typical feminine child. The camera slowly pans right to show her teddy bear. The bear also shows how young she is. The camera panning to the right and moving away from the note and bear, give the audience the feeling that she is moving on and leaving all of her past behind her.


The camera zooming into her photo represents age because it is a picture of her when she was allot younger. The audience can see that the girl looks unhappy and perhaps wants to go back to the time that is in her picture. 


The camera being physically outside the building makes the audience feel like the girl who feels like an outcast.   
when the older lady enters the room the camera shot is a medium long shot, this enables the audience  to see what the woman is wearing. The grey cotton jacket makes the lady look far older representing that she is possibly to old to be her mum but still looks as though she has the maternal instinct and has treated the young girl like her daughter.

As media key concept

These are the four main media language types that we have discussed and today which i will go through later on in this post, these four are the critical things that actually matter to having a successful review.

• Cinematography - This is the way a camera shot is taken, there are many ways in which the camera angle can cause a different reaction towards the audience, typical camera angles are birds eye view, close up and mid shot.
• Editing - This is done to clips already shot and recorded, editing ensures that the clips are good to use and run smoothly over using transmissions.
• Sounds - sounds play an important role in media, they can change the mood of the audience very quickly. If you was to watch a horror movie without sound, you would rarely find yourself being scared. Sounds give the audience awareness of something about to happen also letting you in to weather or not a scene is going to be happy, or sad. Non diagetic means when the characters can not hear the music/sounds. Diagetic means when the charectors can hear the music.
• Mise en scene - This word literaly means "put in scene", this refers to almost everything that goes into the composition of the shot, including the composition itself,:framing,movement, of the camera and charecters, lighting and makeup.

          The second key concept is representation, this includes ;
          Age
          Gender
          Ethnicity
          Sexuality
          Religiouse identity

• The final concept is Audience and Institution which we will be tested about the whole film industries relationship to each jobs such as exhibiturs and producers.