https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG5GJQjyGo
The questions I gave you in class are here:
Hotel Babylon clip
:
Representation in
general:
Difference in status of various
ethnicities: how is the audience positioned?
For example, who has higher status, the
police or the immigrant workers?
How is the audience encouraged to
identify with the workers? How is more emphasis put on their points of view?
How is the audience positioned in
relation to the immigrant officials and the immigrants?
Is there an antagonist here?
Is the audience encouraged to have
sympathy with the immigrants?
Does the extract challenge or confirm
traditional stereotypes of illegal immigrants represented in the media?
Camera shots,
angles and composition
What does the framing of all the
characters together in hiding and later through panning in the canteen suggest
about a sense of community?
Note the focus pull when Ibrahim is
arrested – how does this reflect his sudden awareness of danger?
Mise en scene
Contrast of the luxury hotel with the
cramped storage room in which the immigrants are hiding;
Costumes – suits for some characters and
cleaners’ and maids’ uniforms for others – what messages or values are implied;
Lighting – high key, artificial and low
key
Colour – white suit of the receptionist
juxtaposed with the dark suit of the other female character;
How does clothing denote power and the
way the characters fit into a hierarchy?
Sound
How does the use of sound relate to the
characters’ different roles in the drama?
Describe the tempo and use of music in
relation to the representation of characters.
How does the use of foreign languages
and accents reinforce the representation of characters as different or other?
What is the significance of the
statement in the dialogue; ‘I wasn’t always a cleaner”?
Editing
How does different editing create
particular viewpoints?
How does screen time indicate the
shifting relationship between the characters? Rule of thirds?
Pace of editing reflects frantic
situation and emotions.
Shot reverse shot and cuts aid
continuity.
Cross cutting between two situations
enhances tension.
Long and short takes represent power.
Eye line match reinforces a sense of
dominance.
What types of transition are used?
Juxtaposition of characters using
editing devices.
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