Friday 2 December 2011

Hotel Babylon Unfinished

Throughout this essay I will explain how ethnicity is presented in this clip. There are many different scenes that show how ethnicity is presented. there are  various ways on how ethnicity is represented they are Mise en scene, camera, edits and sound. 


In the first frame we see a black person wearing a suit and tie; he looks smart and well presented. 
He is bending down serving a white man.  Then we notice another black man who calls him over and the two men are talking. Both men are very different.  The black man who just came out of the swimming pool, is wearing a chain and he speaks ‘Slang’. Wear as the other man speaks more formal. In contrast both men show different personalities.


Camera is also represented by ethnicity  throughout this clip most of the shots are long shots. in the beginning of the clip they young black man is walking smoothly down when he notices and meets an old friend who looks like a stereotypical young black man.
in another scene there is  close up on the two french ladies and also the old foreign man. When the two french ladies were taking there clothes of for the man this is also stereotypical because they say french people are beautiful. we notice they are french  by there choice of words. 180 degree was also used throughout the conversation between the two black men; this was used to show the awkwardness of the black man who was formally dressed.




Mise en scene is used on this clip show how ethnicity is represented very clearly. In one of the scenes  we notice a black man wearing formal clothing and the other black man is wearing chains and looks more stereotypical of a black young man. 
However in the first scene we notice the black man bending down serving a white man this shows that even thought he is formally dressed he is still serving a black man.
in another scene there are two cookers one is Brittish and the other is Foreign they continuasly argue and use racial slurs. The foreign man is short and has an accent this is stereotypical.


Sound is  represented to show ethnicity throughout the clip. there is digetic sound in the background to the cleaners cleaning  

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