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What?
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When?
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Why?
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Camera
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Close up of white man’s face.
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At the beginning.
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To show white man, with facial
expressions being menacing, this coincides with his dull voice, showing he is
the villain. Calm.
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Tracking shot showing all of the
tables.
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Towards the end of the clip after the
Blackman is taken.
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To show all of the different rituals
of the different ethnicities. The third and final.
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Close up of emptying the locker.
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After the black man is taken away.
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Representation of the black mans
rights being taken away from him. He doesn’t have any property anymore.
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Close up, zoom into woman’s face
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Whilst they are in the cupboard
hiding and realise that the other man is missing.
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It zooms in to the ladies face to
show she is aisian this highlights that she is an immigrant. Her facial
expressions show the audience that she is in desperate need and panic which is
typical of an immigrant who is struggling in a new country.
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Shot reverse shot
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As the white man walks into the
reception of the hotel.
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The shot reverse shot of the man
walking in and the woman behind the desk is significant because it shows that
they are both white. The woman is the representative and highest figure of
the hotel (It isn’t an immigrant) and the man is also of a high status.
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Mise En Scene
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The man tripping over the hoover
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Whilst the white people from the
agency were chasing the man.
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The hoover is made a British tool and
represents who it is Britain who are attacking these immigrants. The hoover
also represents the man’s role at the hotel and how it requires no
qualifications which shows the man could have low intelligent. This
stereotype is broken earlier.
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Set in a hotel
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This is a place where people go to
stay to get away from there homes for business and personal reasons. This is
a metaphor for the immigrants who are coming into the country who are trying
to get away from home.
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Low light
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In the Cupboard where the people are
hiding.
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This represents the dark times
immigrants go through.
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The white woman at the front desk
wearing white
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Throughout the clip where the woman
is in the scene.
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This shows this woman is pure because
she is white and she isn’t at risk. The representation is of White power.
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Cleaners wearing cleaners clothing
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Throughout the scene.
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The cleaners clothing represents
there status which is of small intelligents and they are at the bottom of the
food chain.
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Editing
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Fast paced cuts to add to tension
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When running to the hiding place.
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This represents the corrupt lives
these immigrants constantly live in.
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Sound
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Diegetic dark droning sound.
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When the woman faints in the
cupboard.
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Represents the fear of the
immigrants. The quite loud and frightening and represents the fear of the
immigrants.
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“I wasn’t always a cleaner” quote
from black illegal immigrant.
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Whilst they are in the cupboard.
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The quote breaks stereotypes of
immigrants being uneducated and shows immigrants in a different light which
isn’t often displayed by the media.
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Percussive music adds to the suspense
of the hiding scene
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When they’re running to the cupboard.
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The white characters are the only
real ones to speak with Received Pronunciation.
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At the beginning and end of the scene
with the white woman and white man.
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This shows they are educated and has
the representation that white people are more powerful.
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The black man speaks using RP to a
customer but then speaks in a normal African accent when he goes downstairs.
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When the lady asks the Black man to
go and do something.
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This gives the representation that
immigrants can’t be who they want to be in society and have to pretend to be
something they’re not to be accepted.
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In this blog you will find the work i have been doing in preparation for my AS exam in Media Studies.
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Ethnicity Analysis
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This is strong work Oli - it is developed and well-focussed on representation of ethnicity. You use media terminology confidently.
ReplyDelete- Try to develop your ideas about editing - the examiners always pick up on this!
I take these comments on board. Thank You.
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