Representation of gender in T.V

Researching shot types

To research different shot types, my group created a montage of as many different shot types as we could in a set time.

Hotel Babylon and Ethnicity

• The ethnicities are easily distinguishable because of the way they are separate to each other, like in the last scene of the video when they are eating.
• This scene also helps us tell that the different ethnic backgrounds have different interests, personalities, attitudes and behaviours. The fist two groups we see are being loud, talking in their own language etc. and then the camera pans to two black people who are sitting quietly and praying.
• Their ethnicity is shown as important in the way it disrupts their job and the way they stick together.
• The white british people are shown as the more powerful people in this clip, the police officers and the man from the immigration agency are white and they take away a black man by force.
• The other characters try to help the characters in danger by warning them that the immigration officer is in the building.
• This clip shows that the dominating ethnicity in a country has more power than those from other ethnic backgrounds. some use that power to help and some use it to control with authority.

Key words for Camera Work and Representation

Rule of thirds:
When the image is split up into a 3x3 grid. The focus on the image should be on the divide of the centre square and the one next to it.

Depth of field:
The depth of field is the distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a scene.