Babylon-Ethnicity

Mise en Scene:

• The policemen are wearing uniform and this shows their authority straight away, they are all white which could show that white people are potentially seen as more important. The black and Asian people are all wearing ordinary cleaner clothes to show that they are represented as being poor and not intelligent so they have poorly paid jobs. This confirms the stereotype that everyone believes  in.
• The lighting is bright at first and then it goes dark when being filmed in the small room, this could show that they aren't equal, the room is a store room which again shows that they aren't worth nearly as much as the other people in the building. The image of them all being shoved into the cupboard also shows that they are just treated like animals, they are treated differently to the other employees because of their race.
• The white lady and the Chinese lady are quite high up, this shows they are in charge of the immigrants. We as an audience know this because of how they talk, they both speak English whereas the immigrants don't speak any English and are all very confused and scared at the situation, whereas the other two in charge are quite calm and used to the situation.
• The props used are: the hoover- this is used to clean the floor in the hallway by the immigrant who doesn't actually make it in time to the cupboard to hide this shows that the immigrant's aren't allowed to work on the shop floor they work in areas which are mainly out of sight, such as the kitchen which is another prop, this shows that they only do low down jobs as the kitchen staff is full  of the immigrants and again they are in a place out the back and out of sight. Another really important prop is the jam which the man uses to bring the lady who fainted back round from her diabetic attack, this showed to the audience that he knew exactly what to do in that situation when the higher up lady who is in charge of all of the immigrants didn't know what to do or what was going on, this subverts the stereotype that the immigrants are inly good for low down jobs such as cleaning and cooking.
• The room where the immigrants hide is like a small and cramped cupboard this shows that they aren't cared about by their bosses and don't have a specific room where they can hide.