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.