Holiday homework task 1

At the start of this clip it begins with an establishing shot, which shows where they are and kind of what is happening. This starts to give us an Image of the status and financial level of the people show. Also at the start the opening establishing shot looks onto the city, showing middle-eastern structured buildings giving us a hint that the episode is filmed in the middle-east. Also when it switches to the people they look middle-eastern as well. Another thing that points to this further is that the people that you can hear murmering sounds foreign or not English, this with the fact there is music commonly associated with the middle-east further confirms our suspicions. Also another thing pointing to the fact that these people are most likely not financially stable is the fact that the people are wearing mostly old ragged clothes. The quick cuts from view to view gives us a quick look at some different angles of the lives they are living. As the lady starts to talk it does not immediatly go on her face as she talks, this gives a sense of uncertainty, and of  not knowing what is going to happen because we cannot see her face, making us skeptical of the fact if she is good or not. We then see a P.O.V shot of her driving a car in a very frantic and almost rushing way, and the fact she is demanding to be able to find someone this paired with the other evidence given so far we could get an idea that she is bad and trying to find someone to hurt or kill them, also though we do not know her motives or what has just recently happened and in that case she may actually be trying to find someone to help them or because she is worried. Both ideas are completely plausible and could have traction. She is then asked to be put on hold quickly and at this point we start to realize that she is most likely worried because of the way her face is as we are shown a close up, her face looks as though it is worried that something has gone wrong or someone has gone missing. As she is left on hold we start to hear the non-diagetic sound of the car engine which reminds us that she is in a rush and this reiterates the fact that something has probably gone wrong and she is trying to work out what. Also while we start to think she is in a rush we also see in the back everything is passing by very fast just showing us more. Also the way she has a car, looks like she is wearing nice clothes and is using a mobile phone shows us she is probably a higher classed person in this country showing the contrast between these 2 sectors of society that have been displayed in the early parts of this short clip. After she is put on hold we see her looking worried and then it cuts off to a prison setting where 2 guards are shown from a wide angle tying nooses ready to execute somebody. This makes us think the person the lady is talking about on the phone is most possibly related to this prison in some way and he may possibly being executed. This is then made  more probable as a man is seen looking out a window from an over the shoulder view watching the guards tie the ropes making us almost certain the person the lady on the phone was talking about, was this guy looking out the window. Also this prison looks very old and run down, this brings back the thoughts about the sectors of society and their roles. We then see a guard checking the boards making sure they flip down properly, as he does this the man looks down to the side looking worried and like he has no hope of getting out of this. As he looks down you hear a ladies voice In the background telling us about how he has been held a year and now he is going to have a death sentence, this is where we realize that the girl on the phone is the same girl as about 10 seconds ago and cuts back to a close up of her face again and then a wide shot of the street as she drives thru. In this scene we start to think that this man probably is innocent and that he has either been wrongfully accused or something like that. As well, we hear the lady acting surprised and shocked about what is about to happen, this again shows us the 2 different sides of these sectors of society and how their laws are probably quite different to the country the lady is either coming from or is from. We then are revealed another person on the other side of the phone who is at some sort of meeting in another country that is also quite posh and fancy which is again contrasting the 2 sectors of society. We then see the man arguing back to the girl and making a good point that de-rails the ladies argument. As this occurs she is stopped in traffic showing us the fact she is both being stopped in the argument and being stopped in traffic which is probably on purpose. As the woman walks out the car we see that she is constantly watching her back because she is a woman in a middle-eastern country where woman are lower status then men, this is also shown through the relationship between her and the man on the phone with him having more power and say, also winning the argument which could be seen as something similar between the 2 different sectors of society. As the woman walks to another man to try and get inside, she tells the man that she thought the other man would not have probably bought it and brings out a bag of money and gets the man to give it to the guard to get her into the prison, this shows the woman and desperate and this shows the contrast between certain sectors of society again as the woman is willing and easily able to give a sum of money so that the guard would let her in, whereas the guard is easily bribed with money showing his financial situation is probably not that great and him doing anything even something against the law to let someone get into the prison. When she gets into the prison she starts to talk to the man and finds out that his family is in hiding and she says she will personally help his family, but in turn for information, at this opportunity the man jumps at it just to help his family, whereas the lady is just looking out for herself, this is another contrast of the sectors of society.

In this essay there are a lot of contrasts in the different social sectors of society and this build over time and makes the story more intense.