Friday, 20 March 2009

Week3 Analyse the representation of ethnicity through the micro elements.


The opening sequeance start with a male character come in a room, non-diegetic sound of estern music, this to indicated their ethnicity they come from Greek. Props is used where coffee cup. the main character his name is Nike, from his accent we ntoice his is white Americans, but we know his is half Greek. from the other characters one is from Iran and one is from Greek we identifed form his strong accent. CU shot of characters haveing conversation using shot revers shot. two shot is used to show other two characters they both in the same side and Nike is by himself, this show his is alone.

Then it cut to the street at night time, restrive camera shot of the gange to hind his identity from the audience and to create engima code and tension. Hip Hop, non-diegetic soundtrack is playing through in this sequence, to repersent their ethnicity by the music, to indicate they are black. The coustume in this scene they both have similar clothing to repersent they all equal and indicated they all come from the same place. Stylist lighting is used, is dim this is to create tension on audience and indcate danger.

By their coustum we notice their both working class, a scene of a expensive car part out side some run down street, juxtaposition is use to indicate the audience they are going up to somthing. e.g. druge dealing.

A male character come in the car, ECU shot of the gun, from the dialogue, we notice his a a cool character, is like his use to this situation. this show his determined what his is doing.

A low angle mid shot of a black male character, from Nike POV. The reason they cast this character to show the people who bron in America, by his figure it indicate his healthy and his class, this show his eat a lot cheap fatty food, from the conversation we notice the man who come from Iran is believeing Muslim, when his having a laugh about the black guy figure.

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