Coming Down The Mountain

This clip portrays the stereotype of Disability in a very strong and clear way. Disabled is stereotyped around being incapable, mentally or physically challenged. This leads onto being unattractive, ugly, non sexual, abnormal, scary and vulnerable.

The camera helps portray authority and power, David has control of the conversation and dominates the camera in the shot reverse shot. David also has more prominence in comparison to Ben, which provides a sense of weakness in Ben. The camera also shows Ben through a close up, this shows the audience Bens facial features showing the audience his physical disability. This also shows how Ben is classed as ugly due to his physical disability. A medium long shot of the adults in the room and their children shows an awareness of power, even though David has more authority over his brother, his parents have more control and power in comparison. The camera also pans steadily to show David, this shows normality as you would expect this type of shot on a person classed as 'normal'. The rule of thirds is also used throughout the clip to show normality in contrast to abnormality. 

Ben is portrayed as a vulnerable and mentally challenged, which is reinforced thought out the clip by the use of camera movement and editing. Ben follows behind David much like a child would, this shows power and control of Ben. Also david is shown to be playing with children's toys and acting like a child at the bus shelter, this reinforces the stereotype of abnormality and incapability of self control. Ben in contrast to his brother is stereotyped as ugly/non-sexual, this also follows the stereotype of a person having a disability.

Thought out the clip Ben's speech is impaired, he dialogue is basic and is hard to understand, this shows the stereotype of mentally incapable. David in comparison to his brother has clear and understandable speech, this demonstrates a clear contrast between normality and abnormality when in comes to a person having a disability.

At the beginning of the clip you hear non diegetic speech of David's thoughts, this shows that David is more adult and doesn't speak his mind. In comparison to Ben who said 'I need a poo' which shows that he has no sense of manners or respect to other people. Ben also is shown as very believing as he believes how bacon is made, this exercises the stereotype of being mentally challenged. The music played towards the end is very docile and boring, this reflects the life of David who has to care and look after Ben like as if he was half his physical age.

This clip does somewhat challenge the disability stereotype, many people expect a person with a disability to be in a wheelchair but Ben doesn't have one.

Overall I think that this clip mainly reinforces the stereotypical disabled person. Ben is labeled as non sexual, ugly, physically and mentally challenged and this clip emphasises all of these stereotypes. This is also all backed up by the use of the camera shot types, power and prominence of which David has over Ben throughout huge clip.