Hotel Babylon

The What?

The Where?

And The Why?

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	She is in all white present’s innocence.
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	This shows that they are all in danger.
Quick zoom to oriental woman	When door is knocked	This is to show her protection of everyone else and furthermore to show that she wants them to stay.
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.

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	This is to show that she is opening door and she doesn’t know there is danger on the other side of the door.
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.

Sound

What?	Where?	Why?
Sound of struggle increased	In the final lobby scene	To make the audience empathies for the actor and his struggle for his freedom.
‘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	To make the officers seem the evil characters and they are stopping freedom of people.
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	This is to increase the intensity of the scene and to show he has 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.