Monday, 5 December 2011

Discuss the way in which the extract constructs representations of ethnicity using the following:
camera shot
editing
sound
mise-en-scene

The first scene is filled with non diegetic sound of eery music, which is placed over the scene to create tension and get the audience to assume something bad is going to happen.

There is an over the shoulder shot of the customer and it looks down on the employee to show that the employee is a shy character and the customer has had a past of authority over him and as they talk about their past times, it shows that there is a past story to be told. As when he first saw the customer he tried to avoid him, rather than catch up almost as he was scared of this man. So it implies that there is a story to tell about their past and here is a reason why they don't talk anymore, they have completely different body language the customer is up for meeting up again having a big party but the employee tries to say no nicely but the customer over powers him and almost forces him into coming to this party. Their language is also very different, it shows that the employee used to act like the customer and he has changed his life around and as the customer seems to be very wealthy it stereotypically shows that he has got his money from the wrong reasons.
-2 maids eastern European; alvarado's theory slutty, dance for money to emphasis they use burlesque music. no standards, one had sexy black underwear and one had white baisc underwear with religious symbol and does not perform for the man, the other one is sly for money the underwear emphasis' the difference between the two maids.
- rich Japanese man; robe, glasses, money on the side they are exotic to him.
-manager with toilet roll; mixed race Chinese, busy, poshly dressed, clean cut with a bun, but also sly and secretive wants to find things out.
-2 managers; British white, woman is blonde, gossips about the staff and they have control as the staff look up to them paternalistic leading. the woman in clueless but the man is conserned shows the male has a higher knowledge in this case.
-italian chef; kisses hand and head, refers to English pig, in competition for head chef had an affair so not a nice man, abusive.
it refers to diegetic and non diegetic sound to add emphasis e.g track playing while the the exotic woman is dancing.