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.
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.
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