Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of ethnicity using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing 
• Sound 
• Mise en scene

Sound:
During the clip, there are a number of different types of sound used, for example at the start a non-diegetic sound plays in the first office scene. This creates atmosphere and tension and then peaks towards the point of which the man and women engage in conversation. In this first office scene the white women is meeting the ethnicity stereotype of being pitied and the black man can be seen as dangerous as he ignores the women and quickly storms out of the room when he finds out his mistress has committed a crime. Their professional status is used to represent the black mans power and dominance over the women, which is then emphasized by how he ignores her. The scene is thencut to a house and the man is getting out of his car, non diegetic sound of music starts to build up. This helps to build tension and forces the audience to speculate about what the build up is going to lead to. By the music building up to the black mans arrival and entrance is conforms to the ethnic stereotype of being dangerous. The audience then hears the door bell ring which is a synchronous sound and adds to the curiosity of what's about to unfold. To support the growth of tension in the back mans voice non diegetic music starts to play which slowly deepens. As the aggressive non diegetic sound music build up this makes the audience feel sympathy and conforms to the white female stereotype of being pitied. The scene then moves on to a car setting, the non-diegetic sound when the arrested woman says 'your wife will know about us', this is used to represent the emotion of the black male proving his love for his family. In this scene the stereotypical roles and binary opposites are reversed and it is the white women that has all the power as she is manipulating the black man and being presented as emotionally and psychologically dangerous. With the use of both diegetic and non-diegetic sound the man conforms to the ethic stereotype of being pitied.

Representation of Ethnicity:

South Asian:

Lost: Jin-Soo Kwon
Are the representations stereotypical or not?
Yes.

How and why is this the case?
In this extract this representation could be considered stereotypical as it shows an American introducing beer to a Korean man, Koreans are not thought of for drinking beer and the fact it's the first time introduced to it represents their difference in culture.

East Asian:



Skins: Anwar/Anwar's Dad
Are the representations stereotypical or not?

No.

How and why is this the case?

This extract shows the opinion if a east Asian Muslim man accepting homosexuality, whereas when his son had not accepted him. It is a stereotype that Islam does not accept homosexuality unlike what's shown in this extract.

Black:

Skins: Thomas

Are the representations stereotypical or not?
Yes.

How and why is this the case?
The rap/hip-hop music genre is very African-American orientated and this clip represents that by showing the three black males performing this type of music and everybody enjoying it.

White:



Are the representations stereotypical or not?
No.

How and why is this the case?

This extract represents white males as Neo-Nazis, this could be stereotypical as Neo-Nazis do havce to be white (Aryan) however are in a very small minority so can not be considered a stereotype.