A touch of Frost Disability is clearly shown within this clip via the use of camera, editing, sound and mise en scene. During the scene of the police and Billy within the forest, a variety of camera angles are used to show how disability is represented within society.
The close up shot of the police dog, resembles Billy being hunted as if he is pray, as we can see the policemen and dogs are eager to find him. Once the police see Billy, a close up shot of Billy's face enables us to see that he appears to be scared and worried. Being able to see that Billy is disabled also makes people feel sympathy for Billy as they may assume him to be innocent and pity him for being disabled. Therefore seeing him scared emphasises this.
A low angle medium shot is used to show Billy being tackled to the floor by the officer and not being able to escape the officer's hold. This resembles Billy as being less powerful than the man and therefore more vulnerable. Within this shot the audience can see Billy being held up by his collar which also resembles his vulnerability. Here the use of digetic sound is used to emphasis the fact the audience would assume Billy is innocent due to the fact he is disabled.
Billy says that he hasn't "done anything wrong" which appears to make Billy seem powerless. The tone in which this is said by Billy is almost childlike and further links with making the audience feel pity for him. Dialouge is further used in the next scene during a conversation between Billy's father and the inspector. The inspector refers to Billy as being "mentally subnormal" to which the father firmly corrects him by saying "handicapped". This shows that the use of words by the inspector represents Billy as not being the same in terms of someone who is normal. Maybe referring to an abled person. To which this seems to slightly offend the father. Handicapped is used instead to describe Billy as does not single him out as being un-normal.
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