Hotel Babylon- Notes

Sound

What?	Where?	Why?
Sound of struggle increased	In the final lobby scene	make the audience feel bad for the actor and the struggle.
‘I wasn’t always a cleaner’	In the closet scene	To counter the stereotype and to show that Africans aren’t stereotype of the uneducated and undeveloped Africans.
‘Just here to stop anyone from getting out’	In the first scene	makes the officer seem evil and they are stopping freedom
Many different languages and ethnicities.	Throughout the clip.	To show the different cultures to present although they interact with one another in fear but do not talk the same language.
Rattling of key in the door	When entering closet scene.	To show the panic of the people and also that she wants to protect.
Music is fast paced	When the white male walks in	The tension increase and shows his power.
Silence as the staff enter the cupboard	In the cupboard scene.	This is to show the lack of power and that they are alone in the cupboard with danger walking around, the men.

Camera

What?	Where?	Why?
Focus of ‘John’ the white male who walks in with a suit and a badge.	In the hotel lobby	His face is centralised in the shot and it is focused on his face whilst he is walking towards the female dressed all in white. The man has the power over everyone else. The serious face shows how he is the villain in this clip.
Focus on hand opening door	In the staff room	she doesn't know about the danger on the other side.
Tracking shot showing each ethnicity	In the canteen	This tracking shots shows that even though before they were all scared together in the staff room and all ethnicities were scared and with one another. As soon as all of that is over they all in their own ethnicities and each in own group showing that they were all together at one point then alone showing how fear brings them together.
Close up shots of the immigrants hiding	In the staff room cupboard	Shows fear and vulnerability but also in a small space and when women passes out and they all surround her and are scared.
Low mid shot angle in kitchen	In the kitchen with all of the illegal immigrants	The camera shakes and this shows that people are scared and shows that the tension between all of the immigrants.

Mise en scene

What?	Where?	Why?
White male power	When entering the hotel.	This shows that they have the power as they have badges and they are wearing suits to show they have power in the hotel.
Women dressed in all white	At the counter of the hotel	it shows innocent for the immigrants she has.
Dark cupboard and all crammed in	In the cupboard scene	This shows that they have no power once they are in there because they are isolated whilst the males are walking around.
Locker had pictures	After the man is taken	This shows that he is now a memory and he has lost his freedom to make the audience feel the way the characters do.

Editing

What?	Where?	Why?
Fast paced when rushing to get immigrants to safety	Once white male enters	all the people are in danger.
Quick zoom to oriental woman	When door is knocked	this is showing her protectiveness over them.
Shot reverse shot	Between who is in charge	This shows the equality between the white male and female because they have the same screen time and therefore they are as important as each other.
Depth of field shot	When the man was leaving	This shows the power difference between the oriental woman and the white male and therefore he has more power as the camera focuses on him.