Lesson on the representation of disability in the media

1. REPRESENTING DISABLED
STARTER
To analyse shots, sound, editing & m-e-s in scenes.
To identify stereotyping of people with disabilities.
• Take the disability awareness quiz.
• How disability aware are you?

2. • How are disabled people stereotypically
represented in the media?

3. Stereotype of people with disabilities

4. How did the London
2012 Paralympics
change the
representation of
disability in the U.K
media?

5. Countertype of people with disabilities

6. Analyse this…
• You are going to watch a scene from Secret
Diary of a Call Girl, in which the call girl is
visited by a disabled boy.
• Watch the clip and make a note of the use of
shot, sounds, editing & m-e-s by circling type
of shot and sounds used and writing a brief
description of them.
Wide shot shows the boy in his
wheelchair at the door of the flat.

7. The clip

8. Question:
• Would you say that the representation of
people with disabilities is a stereotype or
a countertype?
• How is this representation conveyed?
(shot, sound, editing, m-e-s)
• What effect does this representation
have on the audience?