In class we were shown a clip of Coming Down The Mountain and we were asked to analysis it. We watched it and had to link it to the representation of disability.
For Mise en scene I looked at the actors. When looking at the characters I saw that the disabled brother wearing more baggy clothes which shows that he as a disabled person doesn't really concentrate on the normal things a teenage his age would worry about, they worry about fashion and clothes but he doesn't care how others view him. For props I can see that the disabled brother plays with children's toys and this shows that his mind is still young and still learning. We know that these are children's toys and no one else from the clip including the other teenagers play with them. Even the children younger then him are interested in more dangerous and older toys which shows that his mind is still really young and he hasn't got the mind set of a teenage which normal stereotypes are moody and rebellious but he is happy and paying with children's toys which also show his innocence. The setting In the first scene we are shown the boys bedroom and one side it is shown to be bright and the other side is shown to be dark. The disabled brother side is more bright and happy while the older brother has more of a depressing vibe. This shows us that even though the younger brother is disabled it doesn't mean that he is sad or depressed and that he is still living his life and seeing the good in things. The older brother is the opposite and he is more moody and rebellious and shows more characterises of the typical teenager, he has no disability but seems to be more unhappy then his brother who does. Overall the bedroom shows the difference in having a disability and not having one and how having one doesn't need to change how you see the world and that it just depends on how you choose to see it.
For sound I saw that in the kitchen scene the disabled boy doesn't think before he speaks. He says ' I need a poo' this tells us the disabled boy is vulnerable and hasn't quite matured as a teenager. Also in the kitchen their parents talk calmly and soft towards the boy with down syndrome. Whereas their parents talk harshly and snap at the other brother. This shows how disable and abled people are treated differently. The voiceover in the clip and the music are contrapuntal. The dialogue in the voiceover explains how annoyed the able body boy is with his disabled brother but he music is calm and soft. During the conversation in the kitchen the abled boy talks a lot more than the disabled boy this tells us that in the real world disabled people don't really have a say in what geos on in society. The diegetic sound of the cutlery clanging against each other and the chars scarping along the floor brings us back to the reality of them being a normal family.
When looking at editing we can look at the amount of screen time that the actors got and what that then says about disability, there are two main characters which are the two brothers. The more able boy has more screen time than the disabled one as the more abled boy is the one telling his views and we are seeing his life with his opinions there for he has more power. Although the abled brother seems to think that he gets the least attention from our point of view we see the opposite and we see more of him and everything is based around him and not his disabled brother. The use the technique of fade in the editing shows how the school day goes on at a nice flow and follows a pattern and is calm, although that's not what you'd expect from the disabled boys life, it shows that disability doesn't have to mix up the flow of your life and although there may be tasks on the way it doesn't stop disabled people like the younger brother from living his life how he likes and his days follow the same pattern as everyone else.
For camera one of the shots was a birds eye shot, this was the first shot, it was done like this to show the rooms structure and their differences on the personalities. We could see both sides and how different they where. We could see the differences of how the brothers think different. Before you even see and know about the disability we see that they are different. This shows that personalities are more important then disability and that its what makes you and not what disability you have. The disability doesn't decided what kind of person or personality you have to have.
Camera - birds eye view, first shot, to show the rooms structure and their split personalities
- low angles shot when he's about to leave him, to show he's more immature and unworthy
- 180 pan, a tracking shot, the second shot of him on his bed, shows his brain thinking and moving from point to point
- zoom on the boy in bed, to show his purity and how innocent his intentions are
- close up on the bus, changes stress him out and the close shot shows how stressed he is and how he is struggling with the journey home.
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