Representation of Disability in Touch of frost

In the TV drama, Touch of Frost, they use camera angles to help represent a disability that a character has within the show. First, they use a long shot that shows the character of ‘Billy’ walking through the woods at night. This seems to be suspicious, because the audience doesn’t know why someone would be walking through the woods late at night. Meanwhile, they also use low-key lighting to help aid the audience see the character as sinister and that they think that he has been up to some sort of trouble. This may also make the audience see this clip as a sort of horror genre, as it looks very wary and menacing. 

After this a close up of Billy is show when the police spot him in the woods, the close up shows him to look scared and vulnerable. Nevertheless, at the end of the clip when Billy is talking to the inspector, Billy becomes quite aggressive because the inspector is accusing him. Billy replies with ‘I didn’t see her… I didn’t see Trisha!’ This shows that Billy isn’t always seen as childlike because of his disability, now he shows that he can stick up for himself.