Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Ethnicity Analysis

What?
When?
Why?
Camera
Close up of white man’s face.
At the beginning.
To show white man, with facial expressions being menacing, this coincides with his dull voice, showing he is the villain. Calm.
Tracking shot showing all of the tables.
Towards the end of the clip after the Blackman is taken.
To show all of the different rituals of the different ethnicities. The third and final.
Close up of emptying the locker.
After the black man is taken away.
Representation of the black mans rights being taken away from him. He doesn’t have any property anymore.
Close up, zoom into woman’s face
Whilst they are in the cupboard hiding and realise that the other man is missing.
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.
Shot reverse shot
As the white man walks into the reception of the hotel.
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.
Mise En Scene
The man tripping over the hoover
Whilst the white people from the agency were chasing the man.
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.
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.
Low light
In the Cupboard where the people are hiding.
This represents the dark times immigrants go through.
The white woman at the front desk wearing white
Throughout the clip where the woman is in the scene.
This shows this woman is pure because she is white and she isn’t at risk. The representation is of White power.
Cleaners wearing cleaners clothing
Throughout the scene.
The cleaners clothing represents there status which is of small intelligents and they are at the bottom of the food chain.
Editing
Fast paced cuts to add to tension
When running to the hiding place.
This represents the corrupt lives these immigrants constantly live in.












Sound
Diegetic dark droning sound.
When the woman faints in the cupboard.
Represents the fear of the immigrants. The quite loud and frightening and represents the fear of the immigrants.
“I wasn’t always a cleaner” quote from black illegal immigrant.
Whilst they are in the cupboard.
The quote breaks stereotypes of immigrants being uneducated and shows immigrants in a different light which isn’t often displayed by the media.
Percussive music adds to the suspense of the hiding scene
When they’re running to the cupboard.

The white characters are the only real ones to speak with Received Pronunciation.
At the beginning and end of the scene with the white woman and white man.
This shows they are educated and has the representation that white people are more powerful.
The black man speaks using RP to a customer but then speaks in a normal African accent when he goes downstairs.
When the lady asks the Black man to go and do something.
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.

2 comments:

  1. This is strong work Oli - it is developed and well-focussed on representation of ethnicity. You use media terminology confidently.
    - Try to develop your ideas about editing - the examiners always pick up on this!

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  2. I take these comments on board. Thank You.

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