Task 1- Evaluate Perkins 5 assumptions regarding
stereotypes in relation to the ‘Hotel Babylon’ sequence we have studied.
- ‘Stereotypes aren’t just bad’ with regards to Hotel Babylon, this assumption is true, as the white, blonde lady is seen as being superior. She’s also respected and treated well by the other workers in the hotel. However, this isn’t good for all of the other characters as they’re all treated differently, for instance, whilst the white lady is treated with respect by the migrant control officer, in the sense that he speaks to her politely and smiles, he doesn’t even acknowledge the black man’s existence and drags him around like he’s not a person.
- ‘They’re not always about minority groups or the less powerful’ regarding Hotel Babylon, this is true as the migrant control officer is a traditional white man that belongs to no ‘minority group’ however he is evil as he takes away the black man. However, the migration officer is not bothered about taking all of the immigrants as he states that he just need to take back one immigrant. Which shows that he doesn’t really care about the migrant control business, he just cares about numbers e.g. the amount of immigrants he takes back to his boss.
- ‘They can be held about one’s own group’ There was nothing in the clip that I agreed with, as I don’t agree with the stereotypes or think that different races should be treated differently and given certain jobs dependant on their skin colour. As being a white person, I think everyone should be treated the same.
- ‘They’re not rigid or unchanging’ with regards to Hotel Babylon, it’s made clear that these stereotypes have changed overtime as TV shows in 1900, women wouldn’t play important roles in movies as they didn’t have any form of rights. However, in Hotel Babylon the manager of the hotel was a white woman, which shows that the stereotypes have changed. The black people however, were separated into groups in hotel Babylon. As the different races are given the labour jobs e.g. cooking and cleaning and the white people have the frontal jobs e.g. Manager and front desk. But any TV shows that were produced before 1950 black people would have no roles on TV and would have no rights what so ever, this shows the changing of these stereotypes as I thought it was wrong that the black people in Hotel Babylon were given labouring jobs however in 1950’s they wouldn’t even be on TV.
- ‘They’re not always false’ not all of these stereotypes are false as the white immigration officer was racist towards the migrants as he showed no form of respect towards the black man and he threw him around like he was an object. He also spoken to him like he had no power or authority, which showed that he saw him as being inferior to himself. The immigration officer also spoke to the white lady at the front desk in a belittling way, in the sense that he asked her lots of questions almost like he’s questioning her because he doesn’t think she’s able enough to answer his questions. Which also proves the way he’s treating the different worker’s dependant on the way they look or their gender.
Task 2- Discuss the ways in which the extract
constructs the representation of ethnicity using the following:
- Camera Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and variations of these. Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle. Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, Steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom. Composition: framing, rule of thirds, depth of field – deep and shallow focus, focus pulls.
- Editing- Includes transition of image and sound – continuity and non-continuity systems. Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, graphic match, action match, jump cut, crosscutting, parallel editing, cutaway; insert. Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe, superimposition, long take, short take, slow motion, ellipsis and expansion of time, post-production, visual effects.
- Sound/Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects; sound motif, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover, mode of address/direct address, sound mixing, sound perspective.
- Mise-en-Scène- Production design: location, studio, set design, costume and make-up, properties.
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