In the clip, from hotel Babylon, the stereotype of immigrants has been challenged. The stereotype originally being that they are criminals who come over to steal work from British citizens has been challenged, as it is clear that these people are here for other, more important, reasons such as conflict. It is also clear that the immigration police are seen as cruel and un-caring.

Jamie Payne has used the camera in this clip as a way of displaying the emotion of fear on the faces of immigrants as to make them seem less like criminals and more like scared, and hard-working people. One such example was when the police in the elevator saw Ibrahim cleaning, and through a dolly zoom on his face we saw the panic hit him causing the audience to sympathize with this character further is the close up of the leading officer, who displays no compassion towards this capture.

The first time we meet the leading officer there is a dolly zoom on the front house receptionists face, showing a slight hint of fear in her expression, she still remains calm as to not cause suspicion. The leading officer however does not appear pleased once she tells one of her co-workers a message that is clearly a code, and a close up on the officer’s face shows that he understands the code and knows what is going to happen.

Whilst Jackie is attempting to round up the immigrants so that they can all hide, the use of hand held camera displays a sense of realism with the fear of the situation and the diagetic sounds occurring around them helps to place us, as the audience, into the scene so that we are truly in-touch with the fear of being caught.

However there are connotations of them being in a prison, with constant shots of keys and locks used throughout the clip.

The use of another shot in the “hiding” section of the clip shows immigrants running into their hiding room, and the shot has been taken from a vent, the idea being that these people feel like they are always being watched, and so the audience can all relate to this horrible feeling of being watched and feel compassionate for these people.

A lot of the shots used in this clip feature faced paced movements, mostly at the point where they are attempting to get immigrants to hide from the police as this creates tension, and we can relate back to the immigrants having to feel this tension and fear all the way throughout the clip, and probably most of their working lives.

The use of editing lets the audience focus on certain specific characters by lingering on them for long amounts of time. Once again, the example is of Ibrahim, who is constantly being cut back to in order for the audience to pick up on how much danger he is in, and this use of parallel editing means that we compare this danger with the reason for the other immigrants hiding.

The director has also used MCU’s in order for fear to be clear in the faces of the safe and fully aware immigrants, and let’s us as the audience relate to them and put us on the side of the immigrants.

In and effort to ensure that the storyline flows smoothly so that the audience can follow and keep track of the issues occurring in the clip, continuity editing has been used so that there is not only a smooth flow of storyline, but also the idea that cutting between the almost-cartoon-like police and the terrified immigrants means that the audience follows the concept of feeling sorry for the immigrants at all times.

The non-diagetic sound featured in the clip is quite enough so that it is barely noticeable, but at the same time it is a regular beat that appears to be speeding up. This is in order to create a suspense fuelled situation, and in order for the suspense to remain throughout the clip.

Once all the immigrants are safe inside their small room. Jackie describes how the will all be safe when one of the workers faints and causes panic. It is at this point that Jackie points out that it would be safer for her to rick her life staying inside this building rather than loosing her job.  Other diagetic sound moments such as this are subtle indications to the severity towards the situation that they are currently in.

One of the workers reveals that he was once in a medical profession and helps the woman. The line he uses= “I wasn’t always a cleaner”, backed up with the mese-en-scene of his uniform is the indication to state that he is no longer a medical professional and this is the idea that he has moved from this noble profession to a common cleaner.

After Ibrahim has been taken away by the police, Jackie pleads with the officers to let him go as “he’ll be killed” if he goes back to where he comes from, to which the officer replies “and that’s exactly what my boss will do to me if I come back with an empty van.” The clear difference in this situation is that the police chief will not actually going to be killed and the immigrants will actually be killed eventually.

Once all the trouble caused by the police has ended, a tracking shot arcing around the different tables in the canteen establishes the different ethnic groups that join together in their own communities, almost like gangs in prison, and we see finally the group that Ibrahim belonged to with one person missing.

The images that feature in Ibrahim’s locker implies that he is a caring, family man. But also they are there in order for the comparison between the rough, police officer and the “innocent” man he has arrested.