Representation Of disability in the street.

The Street

The first two shots we get from the camera are through barbed wire and a fence, though from the audiences point of view it makes it look like we are looking into a cage, not it in. Over the top of this first shot we can hear natural sound there has been no music been put into this shot,  the use of natural sound allows us to tell where we are.
We then see a mid shot of a man looking through a door with wire on it, so it looks like he is looking into a cage, we then see that the camera angle presents the second man as dangerous, and animal,  the shot then changes to an over the shoulder shot that follows a man walking up to the van, then shot then changes back to the first man so we can see his facial expression, we can instantly see that the first man is distressed to see the second one. 
The second man is actually the main character, his name is Nick and he is the disabled one as we can see he has lots of scarring across his face. Nick has come back because he wants he job back, at this point we see a shot of the first man walking out of the hardware shop, he instantly changes his facial expression from distressed to happy as he doesn't want Nick to notice that he isn't pleased with his presence. The first man then greets Nick as if he  wasn't distressed while the man in the van has a look at Nicks injures when he isn't looking. during the dialogue neither of the men really know were to look as the gazes try not to look at his scares and they can't look him in the eyes because they are trying to make sure that Nick doesn't notice there worry about his sudden appearance.  
Most of the time when Nick has dialogue the camera focuses on his scarred half of his face, to try and re enforce the idea that he isn't normal. The conversation between the men unfolds and we can tell that Nick wants his old job back, but it seems that everything has started to change after he received his injuries, Nick seems to realise that his so called friends are acting differently because of his disability, then we get the through the cage shot of Nick again, portraying his as something which should be locked away in a cage, like he was less than human and with his scares he seems to be being treated like he was less of a human to.


The next shot we get is a point of view shot, in this case we are seeing the world through nicks eyes and he See's a woman trying to get her shopping out of the car, its then re enforced that Nick knows the woman by the camera giving us a close up of her. We then see that she drops her shopping, and like a normal person would do Nick runs over to help her with the shopping, she then jumps at seeing Nicks face, we then get to see what she saw from a close up of nicks injured side, see then trys to shrug of the revulsion of Nick by trying to explain that she would have jumped no matter who had come up behind her. We then see Nick saying that it was alright of her jumping at that he understood that it was his looks, he then starts to walk away but the woman follows him and try to explain herself, she says that even if it was George Clooney behind her she would have jumped, though this could be seen as a insult to Nick as she seems to say that Nick is the polar opposite to George Clooney, she compares them in looks and then openly says that it wasn't Nicks face so if he hadn't of guessed that she was sacred of his face it would seem pretty obvious know Nick understands this and walks off angrily , he has had the fact that he is know different by peoples ideas  social norms  that he has know become an outcast, no body will speak to him without  not looking at his face and trying to explain that he doesn't scare people.


In the next sequence we get a soundtrack of tribal drums, this is a non diegetic sound added to the scene to heighten dramatic tension, we can clearly see by the way Nick is walking that he is very angry, even when he is walking in a crowd it looks like he is still singles out, we see also the re enforcement of him being ugly and an outcast by various close up expressions of peoples faces as he walks by. The way that Nick is looking right to left constantly gives us the impression of him trying to look at anyone that is looking at his face, daring them to look almost, trying to get someone to mention him. He looks like wolf among sheep, less human than person, his attitude has been molded by the people who have scorned him for his disability and his effort to re integrate back into society. He has been made  believe that he isn't good normal or good enough to become just another person in a crowd, he know stands out and society has marked him as an outcast.



In the few lines of dialogue we hear nick calling himself ugly and scary,  he tries to tell the general that he could become a recruitment person just like the general, we can see the general looking away from Nick, eye contact is rarely made between them because the general doesn't want to look at Nick.

Regional Identity

North Stereotypes

• Flat cap wearing 
• Pigeon racers
• Friendly but "bloody minded"
• Stubborn and argumentative 
• Whippet owning
• menial manual jobs.
• Little education
• Sexist
• Thick accent
• Bitter drinkers
• Hot pot
• Miserable weather
• Cobbled streets

Country Stereotypes 

• There inbreed
• stupid
• happy
• Livestock bothering 
• Farm hand yokel or hunting toff
• slow pace of life
• have animals
• Landowners
• Tractor drivers.

Film 4 Distribution continued

Tessa Rosa

Trivia

In May 2009 was named by 'Time' magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the world.

She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Broadcasting. She is the Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4.

• Needs to boost annual investment through third party partnerships.
• Will no longer distribute it's own films.
• Ross secured a budget of £8-10 million to £15 million
• They make between 6-8 films a year
• set up a low budget studio with the council and distributors optimum, warpx (digital production house)
• Working across TV and films, also allows economies of scale and cross fertilisation. 
• lots of Film 4's money is from advertising.
• Ross See's Film 4 as part of a wider creative community with, for example 'working title, the BBC and BBC films'.
• Partnerships with distribution companies.
• Warp X - a film 4 / UK film council project with the Sheffield based indie warp- that can finance three low budget films a year.

Film 4

Film4 is a free digital television channel available in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned and operated by Channel 4, that screens films.

Film4 did not originally focus on broadcasting blockbusters, but nowadays broadcasts mainly mainstream Hollywood movies. The channel frequently has themed nights or seasons in which a number of films centred around one genre, director or actor are shown. As Channel 4 also owns a film production company, Film4 Productions, it shows many of its in-house productions.

Occasional non-film (but film-related) programmes are also shown.

Wherever possible, films are shown in their correct aspect ratio. No digital on-screen graphics are superimposed. Under UK broadcasting rules, it was able to screen most films unedited and in earlier timeslots when it was a subscription channel, but these concessions were lost when it became free-to-air, and more adult material is now confined to after the 9pm watershed. Some films are also now edited to make them suitable for pre-watershed screenings, a decision which was criticised by viewers on the channel's now defunct internet forum.

To alert the public to it going free-to-air, Film4 launched a massive campaign directed by Kevin Spaceyfeaturing major celebrities advertising Film4 in odd ways. The slogan of the campaign was "FILMS FOR FREE". Examples include:

• Judi Dench in a lobster costume, operatically singing the words "Film Four!"
• Lucy Liu in a banner plane, insulting Ray Winstone and Christian Slater who have incorrectly erected a 'Film4 is free' sign, whilst her own banner is displayed upside-down.
• Ewan McGregor in a tomato costume, talking to Judi Dench about whether he is a fruit or a vegetable.
• Gael García Bernal putting leaflets, advertising Film4, onto cars and setting off their alarms. To which he then throws the remaining leaflets in the air.
• Willem Dafoe saying to one of the advertising campaigners (played by Mackenzie Crook), "First day? It'll get better."
• Rhys Ifans advertising the channel door-to-door, but often having a door slammed in his face.

These are some of the films that they produced 

• 24 Hour Party People (co-production with United Artists, UK Film Council and Baby Cow Productions)
• A Month in the Country (co-production with Euston Films)
• A Room with a View (co-production with Merchant Ivory Productions and Goldcrest Films)
• A Zed and Two Noughts (co-production with British Film Institute and Artificial Eye)
• And When Did You Last See Your Father?
• Beautiful Thing
• Birthday Girl
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Brassed Off (co-production with Miramax Films and Prominent Features)
• Brothers of the Head
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Buffalo Soldiers (film) (co-production with Good Machineand Miramax Films)
• Bunny and the Bull (co-production with Warp X Productions,Wild Bunch, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
• Charlotte Gray (co-production with Ecosse Films andWarner Bros.)
• Dancer in the Dark
• Dead Man's Shoes
• Comrades (co-production with now-defunct National Film Finance Corporation)
• Death To Smoochy (co-production with Senator Film andWarner Bros.)
• Deep Water
• Dogma (produced by View Askew)
• East Is East
• Elizabeth (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
• Enduring Love
• Fever Pitch
• Four Lions (co-production with Warp Films, Wild Bunch andOptimum Releasing)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)

• Funny Games (co-production with Warner Independent Pictures and Tartan Films)
• Hallam Foe
• Happy-Go-Lucky (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and Summit Entertainment)
• Hidden City
• In Bruges (co-production with Focus Features)
• Late Night Shopping
• Lucky Break (co-production with Paramount Pictures andMiramax Films)
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• My Beautiful Laundrette (co-production with SAF Productions and Working Title Films)
• P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
• Red Monarch
• Series 7: The Contenders
• Sexy Beast (Co-production with Kanzaman, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Recorded Picture Company)
• Slumdog Millionaire (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé and Celador Films)
• The Crying Game (co-production with British Screen, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance and Palace Pictures)
• The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer
• The Last King of Scotland (co-production with DNA Filmsand Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (Co-production withUniversal Pictures and Tiger Aspect)
• The Lovely Bones (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)
• The Madness of King George (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• The Pope Must Die (co production with Miramax Films, Palace Pictures and Michael White)
• The Straight Story (co-production with StudioCanal and Walt Disney Pictures)
• This Is England
• Touching the Void
• Trainspotting
• Venus (co-production with UK Film Council and Miramax Films)
• Wish You Were Here