The angle, focus and position of the camera always have a purpose, not just which it illustrates. It’s all done to represent something or someone in a particular way. In the clip “Hotel B” once the immigration team went looking round the hotel they instantly found a suspect. Once we are aware of the situation the camera works its magic. A close-up is used to represent the suspect’s facial expression, as we are so close we begin to feel as if we were in his position and we are able to feel what he’s going through. A fast zoom is used to reinforce the shock of the suspect and yet again we are able to see his facial expression at a closer look, The zoom and close-up are as if they are working together, both of their camera shots and movement is able to cut more of the background out making the audience focus on the subject, not what’s happening in the background. The camera also gives us enough information to understand that the subject is a black male who is an immigrant who works as a cleaner in a hotel, he appears to be around 20-25 and a working social class. I am able to tell this with the help of the shallow focus which is at place. I am able to purely focus on the male instead of anything else in the background which make cause distraction.
Editing (Post production)
Editing is a major part of any film work as it also helps the representation and meaning of a shot with the transitions and cutting of scenes. For example, when the black male sees the immigration team he begins to flee, straight after the close-up zoom shot. Three to four shots are shown with straight cuts and at quick speed (action match). This gives us a feel of the scene and with the fast cuts and fast motion shots we begin to get excited with the show and instantly become more interested and concentrated as you want to see what will happen next. We are able to tell what type of people the immigration team are due to the way they grab the male suspect and how quick they did so. It represented them as a very serious team which are not there to mess around, these reinforces the serious side of the scene.
Sound
Sound holds a huge part of film/tv show even though you might not notice it, it’s a mood starter and it sets the scenes. For example, going back to the scene of the male suspect being caught by the immigration team. There is a both diegetic and non-diegetic. Once the man notice’s he gasps which is a diegetic sound, just because of this sound we are able to tell how shocked and worried he is at that moment in time, but at the same time a non-diegetic sound is playing in the background, the backing music has a serious melody to it and once the action happens and the fast motion editing gets in place the sound gradually gets louder, as if it’s getting to you in real life. This grabs the attention of the audience. The soundtrack was picked deliberately to fit the theme of the scene. This also informs us about the type of hotel it really is, serious and tense.
Mise-en-Scène
Once in the small confined room all the immigrants are worried about what’s going to happen to them. The lightning and colour then take action to make that feeling really come to life, with the low key lighting and spot light like lights it reinforces the fast there in a confined space and that there all in a very depressing state at the time as there friend is unable is missing from the pack and faces getting caught. There’s lots of shadows on all the other characters who don’t have a big part in the scene and this makes them feel less important in the scene, this is also done when the unconscious woman becomes conscious, one of the male immigrants knew about the woman’s problem and was able to help her, whereas the woman who actually was helping the immigrants didn’t. Shadows then took place when she raised her head up and thanked the man. Also the Filming of the program took place in a location where as other programs would have probably been in a studio and a studio you have more freedom with the camera as you know how much space you need/want. The immigrant who got caught was wearing a uniform which was a brown/redy colour. It was clear to the audience that it was the cleaning uniform as one of the male immigrant says a line when there all in the small room "I wasn't always a cleaner". He was wearing the same uniform as the male who got caught meaning its the cleaners uniform. Other uniforms were present such as chiefs and female cleaner uniform. This also represent there working social glass and their status e.g. Cleaner for the hotel.
Johnny Fonseca
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