- hits disabled girl (wheelchair) in the head with a frisbee, audience feels bad where as someone without disablility we wouldnt feel as bad. feel we shouldnt laugh because she has a disability. (not as funny)
- gender: boys objectify the girls - jugasorousrex L. MULVEY
- language 'gay' even though we know they arent, seeming as if its a negative thing- derroagatry use of the word. (sexuality)
- gender: stereotypes of boys with tops of playing football whilst will and co. are playing frisbee...
- mise-en-scene, in a park verisimiltude as weve all been there before, audeince can identify with it as its a real place. (can relate to it)
- dialogue: 'doent wanna play football because your scared he will break your leg' foreshadowing of disablilty
- camera angle- looking down on girl in wheelchair maybe trying to say that shes less able than him, lower
- binary oppositions- active able bodied people (riding bikes, frisbee, football) and static girl in wheelchair, cant join in.
- when will trys to get frisbee back off the disabled girl, tough guys playing football try to stop him thinking he is victimising the girl.
- frisbee in air- eye line shot of them all looking at frisbee and where its going
- camera pans from girls walking to girl in wheelchair once frisbee is in air
- shot reverse shot when forgein woman is having a go at will
- the fact that the disabled girl has a carer, what might be 'expected'. stereotypically female.
- carer being foreign, british people 'too proud' wont do that. british complain about foreign people coming over stealing our jobs.
- couldnt communicate with the foreign woman- obstructing communication-disability.
in his life 1991 study, Paul Hunt identified 10 stereotypes that the media use to portray disabled people:
- the disabled person as pitable or pathetic
- an object of curiosity or violence
- sinister or evil
- the super cripple
- to create an atmosphere
- laughable
- his/her own worst enemy
- as a burden
- as non-sexual
- being unable to participate in daily life
- boy in wheelchairs dad tryed out the wheelchair and couldnt do it-joke-not easy. relationship with father, joking about, trying to make the best of the bad situation they are in (audience may not see it that way?)
- got off the boat was dependant on the other man to get him ashore but didnt want help in getting himself into his wheelchair-determination/dignity/can do it
- wheelchair stuck in sand (audience sympathises for him, wanting to help) but he coped and managed to get around it
- on an island by himself no one to help him if he gets stuck- how hard it may be
- pan of the island (establishes the setting: big, isloated, besolate), view from his point of view to feel his emotions too
- wasnt always diasbled, still trying to come to terms with it, trying to manage and find himself with his new disablilty
- basketball, symbolic code of his past life (father gave him a basketball-giving him hope, motivating him to push towards becoming his old self again but under new circumstances)
- narrative device-flashbacks of present day to 4 months earlier-revealing the story, help understand and identify with his character more
- graphic discontinuity- basketball game-loud crowd with lots of people to a lonely desolate island just him alone
- jump cuts from how far he has wheeled in distance showing how time has lapsed, taking him forever to get off the beach, helps audience identify with the situation, how hard it is
- isolated, lonely ,harsh environment could reflect having a disablilty and sea represents society, being unpredictable, maybe dangerous and surrounding
- name- cast offs-put away, away from society
- verisimilitude- normal everyday sounds or sounds youd hear on the island
- diegetic- basketball bouncing, on the boat, the waves crashing
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