Sunday, 10 February 2013

Hotel B Analysing Notes




Camera:
- Camera looks through the cage barriers. The immigrants are caged in and treated like animals  Creates suspense. 
- Room of lockers and key - emphasises the immigrants being locked up. Locking the lockers highlights the end of Abraham's life. Images on the lockers highlights his past. 
- Pan across different races in canteen - illustrates separation between races even through they are all outcasts.

Sound:
- Digetic: Jackie warns the immigrants - she is the leader - higher authority
- Non digetic: music foreshadows that something bad is about to happen and it builds tension 

Mise-en-scene
- Receptionist - angelic connotations of her white clothes. She warns the immigrants to hide - saves them. She is also 'pure' as she is not an immigrant. 
- Confined room - they are trapped and isolated.

Editing:
- Cuts between shots. - Fast pace of clip highlights tension.
- Zoom into cleaners face - the inspectors close in on him, this highlights his emotions

Class/race:
- When the cleaner faints, Jackie kneels down so that they are on the same level
- Uniforms represent jobs: Receptionists white uniform, angelic/heavens - higher authority. 

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