Hotel Babylon Essay

The hotel Babylon clip shows how all the workers are treated as equal humans at the hotel and are not treated any differently due to their race. All the workers have an importance, even though some of the talent is hidden from their colleagues.

The beginning part of hotel Babylon shows that the location the clip is set in is an expensive hotel, possibly based in the heart of London. The costume that the main characters wear in the foyer are business based costumes. With both the males and females having a neat appearance, with the males costumes being smart suits and the females costume being a blazers, blouses and skirts.
The soundtrack becomes to a higher and louder tone as the suit dressed immigration officer reaches the front desk of the hotel. The panic and concern is highlighted as they start to warn staff that immigration has arrived.
The characters that work in the main foyer are shown with prominence and importance as the immigration ignore them as they pass through the hotel.
The clip also shows how all the employees care for each other, there body language becomes tensed, uncomfortable, and worried as the immigration officers enter the building. This shows the audience that they look at each other as individuals and equals.

I think the most important clip with in hotel Babylon is when all of the workers that are seen as illegal immigrates are hiding in a closet. The camera shows they're vulnerable and scared, the camera isn't steady and shows the characters with fast movements. This expresses how they're feeling emotional and  shows the worry that is whirling around their heads.
When one of the workers has a health issue and faints from having low blood sugar, her colleague rushes to assist and help her out. From his dialogue it shows that he is in a job that he is over qualified for. "I wasn't always a cleaner." it shows the audience that he had a higher powered job before he became a cleaner, possibly could of been a doctor. It shows he has determination to make something of his life and provided for his family, which is why he moved to the UK to get a better life.
The lighting in the clip is dark, expressing the fear the characters are having, possibly showing the darkness they feel from the fear of having to go back to somewhere that is unsafe to live.
The props, mops and buckets, hoovers and the dirty costumes that are shown in the closet shows that the characters are underpaid workers, that are doing un enjoyable jobs, due to a lack of education. It also show the audience that the majority of the workers that immigration are looking for are either cleaners or handymen.

When the thug like looking immigration knocks on the closet door you can see the anxious and worried atmosphere that circulates around the room. The shouting and panicked voices turn to hushed tones and the soundtrack becomes a little louder as somebody knocks on the door again.
As the immigration officer is shown on the clip again it is obvious that he has a huge importance as the main focus falls to him, and again he becomes the centre of the main shot. The camera also looks up at the immigration officer, showing that he has a higher power over the employees. He shows actions of being a cruel, heartless man that had done the same job a million times before, as he treats the worker rough, as if he isn't even human.
The dialogue in this clip again shows the workers all care for each other. "I'll sack him, just let him disappear." This shows a sincere action, to help her colleagues and she knows the troubles he will face when he arrives back to his own country.
As the workers start to clear their colleagues locker it shows the audience that he is gone and is never coming back. The soundtrack starts up again, but is slower and sad than it was before. It shows not the just emptiness of his locker, as they are removing his life he had in the UK, but also the empty place that will be left in the hotel now that he has gone.

As the man gets taken away by immigration the soundtrack stops , this being the first time when the sad, depressing music has stopped with in the clip.
The camera pans to the other characters who could have been taken away by the immigration officer. The camera shows close ups to certain characters as they show strained and pained expressions, with a hint of happiness and joy, the mixed feelings washing over them as they come to deal with the horrid task that had just taken place in front of them.
The camera continues to pan as it shows the workers that were just in an un safe position. It shows a medium shot of the workers having their lunch. It shows for the first time not as individuals, as they sit in different groups from the countries they are from.
It shows being silent or praying, or chatting with extreme laughter that echos and roars around the room. It shows the different languages that are under one roof and the different ranges of backgrounds, as there is subtitles shown as group stories are shown and heard in different languages.