Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Notes 17/12/13

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of ethnicity using the following.

  • Camera angles, movement, composition
  • Editing
  • Sound
  • Mis-en-sene
Hotel Babylon
  •  Immigration service wear suits
  • Ben wears a suit and sits in the foyer of the hotel
  • Warning staff that immigration has arrived 
  • Working as a team
  • All staff members look at each other equally
  • Lighting when all the immigrated people are in the same room is dark
  • Worry
  • Fear
  • Dramatic music causes tension
  • "I wasn't always a cleaner" had a higher powered job before he became a cleaner, possibly a doctor.
  • Camera angles follow the characters
  • Low angles
  • "I'll sack him, just let him disappear" care about each other
  • Sad music when they are clearing out his locker, upset that he's been taken by immigration
  • Panning to different characters and how working there effects them. (gives them a better life than they would in their own country)
  • Sadness
  • Sad- extreme close up and close ups to show their emotion
  • Worry- fast movements, camera not as steady 
  • Immigration officer always in the main shot
  • Music is increased to a louder tone when the immigration get to the front desk 
  • Shouting 
  • Panicked voices
  • Same music through out the clip, it just changed to different paces depending on what is happening to the characters
  • Worry when somebody knocks on the door, music gets a tiny bit louder
  • As one man gets taken away from immigration the music stops (only time though out the sequence when there is no music)
  • After he's taken away from immigration the music foes slower and has a sad sound to it, and the clip shows all of the people that could have been taken away
  • Suspense - building up to when something is going to happen
  • Different languages - shows that everyone is a individual 
  • Range of different backgrounds - have to be told in different languages 
  • Possibly four different country's- sit in a group of where they are from
  • Silence and praying
  • Laughter and chatter
  • Empty, not much in his locker, removing his life which he had in the UK
  • Gone and never coming back 
  • Camera looking up at immigration, shows they have a higher power over the employe's
  • Looked liked thugs more than immigration officers
  • Didn't treat the people as if they was human, rough 

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