babylon

Babylon- ethnicity


This extract of hotel ‘Babylon’ it shows a wide range of ethnicity shown through the hotel staff characters. Apart of these different ethnic groups there are quite a lot of illegal immigrants In their.

In this scene of hotel Babylon there is a mix of ethnicity form all different backgrounds. The hotel hires legal immigrants as staff members to do work. The immigration officer comes in with police to check the building, this causes an alarm for the staff so they have to all be gathered up and hidden. The officers caught one of the staff, as they didn't have enough time to get him. 




Camera shots




There are close ups to the immigration officer that comes in this shows his power as he comes across as a powerful man. Also when the police officers come in there are low camera angles showing that the police officers are looked up too. There are some point of view shots where the camera moves quickly to different people, this make the audience feel involved. When one of the staff embers faints the camera follows her as if they go with her, this makes it feel more intense for the audience as again they feel involved. 




Sound track




Throughout the entire scene there is music in the background, the music is quite exhilarating which creates a tense atmosphere, and therefore makes the audience feels like the people are more rushed than they probably are. When in all of the illegal safe are in the room there is no music, this is to show silence and the silence can portray loneliness and scared. The reason the director would have wanted this effect is because it gives the image that they are all thinking that they will be caught and they may be evicted from the country.

Mise en scene

The Mise en scene is a normal hotel with a nice roomy interior for guests, but the staff looks to be in different standards to the guest. The audience can tell that its based in England most likely London, not only because of the English/ southern accents but because of the police they're dressed as the typical British officer. The reason I get the impression it is in London is because in the background when the immigration officer comes in you can see a London taxi outside. The interior looks modern (for the time when it was filmed) and looks like business men/ women mainly use it. The director seems to use people from other countries to act for this programme, as they all have accents and seem to look not English. This helps show what the director thinks about ethnicity of immigrant workers.

Editing 




Throughout the scene when there is two people talking they edit it so it's like you are they’re watching the conversation switching between the different people when they are talking. Once it is alarmed that the immigration security is in the business the editing is then a lot faster to help create excitement/ to show they are in a rush, this shows the audience that it is important to hide all of the illegal immigrants.  There is also slow paced editing when the immigration officer is talking to the receptionist, this shows the audience that the receptionist is feeling under control and not panicking. It portrays that it may have happened quite a few times before.