Diary of a call girl

Diary of a call girl:

In this clip Blake is presented as sexually abnormal. In the clip, the first thing you see is the call girl open the door and the camera angle then points down to show the boy Blake in his wheelchair.  This makes it look like they are trying to show everyone that he is vulnerable and less abled than them. At the beginning of the clip there is a bit of an ‘awkward tension’ because of Blake’s father was present and if Blake wasn’t disabled then his father wouldn’t have needed to be there. The call girl looked shocked to see his father at the door. The call girl tells Blake and his father to make them at home and she walks off into another room. Blake then quickly shouts “Dad” in a panic because he wanted his Dad to carry him into her bed before she got back and saw him do it, almost as if he was embarrassed by his disability. The colours around the room were mainly reds and pinks, this connotes love and romance. Blake also said to the call girl that he is not used to being touched intimately and that he is only ever touched by his parents when they are assisting him. Once the call girl came back into the room, the Dad was still stood there nervously looking at his son and the call girl, he then kissed his son on the head and told him where he would be if Blake needed him. After he had left the call girl locked her bedroom door and looked back at Blake nervously lying in her bed. She then unlocked the door rather quickly in case something was to happen to Blake. By her doing this, this makes it look as though Blake is scared or does not like the door being closed which makes him look weak and vulnerable and ‘sexually abnormal’. 

The music that is used in the clip was non-diegetic because the music was put there for the audience, to set the mood. The music was slow and soft which connotes love and is romantic because of what is about to happen. The characters in this clip were unable to hear the music.

Once the Dad had left the call girls house, he went and sat in his car, you were able to tell that he was on edge about the whole situation because he turning the radio on and off, beeping the horn and playing with the car windows. This shows the audience that he is nervous and uneasy.

When Blake and the call girl were in bed together, it was almost as if she didn’t know how to start because she looked worried and didn’t know what she could and couldn’t do in case it was uncomfortable for him or as if he was physically unable to do things like any other abled being.

 The call girl offers Blake a drink and when she gives it to him she realises that she has to assist him when he is drinking it. The camera shot they use for this is a medium shot so that the audience could see closely the struggle in his face and also his hands shaking, struggling to hold the glass. Further along the call girl asks Blake if she should take off his top, this again shows the audience that Blake is ‘sexually abnormal’ because if it was a more abled body, she wouldn’t have needed to ask. When she is doing this the camera slowly pans down, it starts from his head so that the audience can’t see his body and then slowly makes its way back down once Blake is lying down again, this was to make the audience question what his body will look like because of the way Blake has been represented in the clip, It makes the audience expect something that is not going to happen and makes them see him as sexually abnormal.  The call girl was being extra careful around him as if he wasn’t physically or mentally fit or stable to be intimate with another person.