This is a video that we made to practise some editing skills.

Hotel Babylon immigration raid - diegetic and Non-diegetic sounds and how they link to ethnicity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw68eolT39A

In this clip there are a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. In this blog I am going to be identifying these sounds and categorising them into diegetic and non-diegetic, I am then going to be linking each sound to how it represents different ethnic groups.

Diegetic

Diegetic sound is sound in a scene which the actors would be able top here also, such as footsteps.

• Footsteps are used in this clip when the immigrants are running away from the police. This links to their ethnicity as they are scared because they are under the threat of deportation, therefore they are running away, whereas the people who are hiding them are calm because they aren’t under threat.
• Another diegetic sound in this clip is the sound of keys rustling. This is when one of the women in the scene is locking the immigrants in a room to try and protect them. This shows that they are under threat. Even though the woman hiding them isn’t under threat, she locks herself in with them which shows that she is scared that they are going to get caught.
• Another sound in this scene is a knock at the door. This links to the immigrants as usually a knock at the door would be the police, to deport them however here it’s one of the staff member telling them that someone has been caught.

Non-diegetic
Non-diegetic sound is sound in the scene that only the audience can hear, such as a soundtrack or voice over.

• The soundtrack is constantly changing throughout this clip. At the start the soundtrack is fast/medium paced to build tension and to give an indication that something is going to happen. However, at the end of the clip, after Ibrahim (one of the illegal immigrants) is caught the soundtrack is sad and slow to emphasise the emotions that the other characters are felling.
   

Dialogue

In the clip, one of the cleaner’s collapses, and another cleaner (an African man called Adam) helps her and says ‘’I wasn’t always a cleaner’’. This signifies that back in his country he was a skilled doctor, however has a better life cleaning in England. This links to this ethnicity as he is over qualified to be working as a cleaner but can’t get a job as a doctor because he is an illegal immigrant.

Hotel Babylon immigration raid - diegetic and Non-diegetic sounds and how they link to ethnicity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw68eolT39A

In this clip there are a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. In this blog I am going to be identifying these sounds and categorising them into diegetic and non-diegetic, I am then going to be linking each sound to how it represents different ethnic groups.

 

Diegetic

Diegetic sound is sound in a scene which the actors would be able top here also, such as footsteps.

• Footsteps are used in this clip when the immigrants are running away from the police. This links to their ethnicity as they are scared because they are under the threat of deportation, therefore they are running away, whereas the people who are hiding them are calm because they aren’t under threat.
• Another diegetic sound in this clip is the sound of keys rustling. This is when one of the women in the scene is locking the immigrants in a room to try and protect them. This shows that they are under threat. Even though the woman hiding them isn’t under threat, she locks herself in with them which shows that she is scared that they are going to get caught.
• Another sound in this scene is a knock at the door. This links to the immigrants as usually a knock at the door would be the police, to deport them however here it’s one of the staff member telling them that someone has been caught.

Non-diegetic  

Non-diegetic sound is sound in the scene that only the audience can hear, such as a soundtrack or voice over.

• The soundtrack is constantly changing throughout this clip. At the start the soundtrack is fast/medium paced to build tension and to give an indication that something is going to happen. However, at the end of the clip, after Ibrahim (one of the illegal immigrants) is caught the soundtrack is sad and slow to emphasise the emotions that the other characters are felling.
   
   

Dialogue

In the clip, one of the cleaner’s collapses, and another cleaner (an African man called Adam) helps her and says ‘’I wasn’t always a cleaner’’. This signifies that back in his country he was a skilled doctor, however has a better life cleaning in England. This links to this ethnicity as he is over qualified to be working as a cleaner but can’t get a job as a doctor because he is an illegal immigrant.

Camera Angles and Shots - JACK and ELLIS

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In this blog i will be reviewing a small clip from Primeval. I will be looking at the characters and using Mise-en-scene to identify the stereotypical representations of some of the characters. Above is a link to the clip that we watch in class.

Characters/costumes
There are 7 characters in this short clip, five men and two women.

Men    
All of the men in this scene apart from 1 are dressed in masculine cloths. The one that is dressed in more feminine such as a pink t-shirt, a scarf and a hat is portrayed as weaker than the others. He is dressed like this so that he comes across as weaker as those sort of cloths are a common stereotype that we all recognize. In this clip there is also a scene where one of the male characters is pointing a gun at a farmer, who is also holding a gun, and the man in the pink t-shirt is only holding a shovel as his weapon which suggests he is more vulnerable than the others.

Women
There are two women in this clip. One woman is dressed very femininely in a revealing dress, where are the other's dress sense is more masculine. The woman dressed more femininely is portrayed as being weaker than the other and you can tell this straight away just from what they are both wearing. The woman dressed in more masculine cloths is shown to be strong in this clip as she saves one of the men from the Sabre Tooth.  

american gangster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq11c2lf3s8

The link above is a clip of the opening scene to American gangster. in the blog I will review the characters, costumes, location, and relationships between characters and I am going to explain what I have learnt from this short opening scene clip.

Characters: There are 4 characters in this opening scene. 2 African Americans. there is also an unknown character and a white foreigner. the unknown  is the one that pours the petrol on the white foreigner before he is set alight and killed.

Costumes: The African American in the suit and hat seems to be the man in control of the situation because he is watching on as his two men kill the white foreigner. The man the lets alight and kills the white foreigner seems to be his second in command as he isn't dressed as smartly. The unknown man that pours the petrol isn't really seen which shows a hierarchy as he's not as important as the other two.

Location: there are a number of signs that leads you to believe that the film is set in the USA, specifically in New York due to the sounds of sirens. To be more specific I would say that the opening scene takes place at some sort of harbour as the sound of a ships horn is in there too, once again leading the audience to believe that the film is set in New York.

Relationships: In the opening scene, there appears to be a relationship between the man in the hat and his second in command which I'm sure will unfold as the film progresses. There is a subtle sign that the man in the hats career is going to bring him to an end and his second in command will succeed him as when the white foreigner is set alight, the man in the hat is position so it looks like he is also being consumed by flames.



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