Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Editing in the Representation of Ethnicity in Hotel Babylon.

In the clip whilst the two men are having a conversation, it switches to a two shot where you can see a black line on the white wall behind them dividing the two men. This shows that there is a binary opposition between them and shows their different types of ethnic stereotype.
They use quick cuts that move quickly from one chef to the other showing that they have a strained relationship and dislike each other. He is opposite from the posh English man and woman as they do talk like this but instead in a calm and presentable manner instead of talking in an abusive way. This is a binary opposition. 
Differentiation in ellipses allows for ethnicity to be represented in this clip as often those who are depicted as 'foreign' are shot following a consecutive jump cuts with very little ellipses potentially signifying a fear of the oppressive white English characters in the scene, therefore stating that white characters have a greater power over other ethnicity. To support this the ellipses in the transitions between ethnic characters and white character is often slower suggesting that the white character has a authoritative command over certain situations highlighted by deliberation of the shot.

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