Editing In Memento

In Memento the editing is very fragmented and not in order, this shows how the life of Leonard Shelby is all muddled up this shows how Leonard makes sense of his life with short term memory loss.
The First scene we See is when Leonard is holding and waving a photo in the air, and the start we do not realise what he is doing but then we realise that the shot is actually being shown backwards and we see that he has taken a picture and it's actually being developed in reverse, this edit allows us to see that Leonard's life is all mixed up and confusing to him.
In the shots where Leonard's life is being shown in black and white we can see fast paced editing which shows close ups to certain parts of the room like reminder notes, the closeups allow us to see what they are and how unfamiliar they are to the main character, all the small notes are symbolic to Leonard  because of his memory problem, he can gain insight from what he See's written on them .
The first scene that is shot in black and white is just after the scene were we see Leonard kill someone, the kill scene is shot entirely backwards this gives us the ending at the start of the film, but we have no idea how it got up to this point, this hooks us instantly, we want to know why Leonard kills this man.

The next scene is in black and white and is shot In the right way round, we can tell that it is in a different time frame, as he seems to be back in a hotel room that he has been in before but can't quite remember. The dialogue that we get is his own subconscious as we can hear that he is constantly reassuring himself as to what he is doing there, he finds it hard to determine what time period that he has been in the room, this is the point where we can tell that he has a memory problem. In this scene we know that he is unsure about himself and has to try and make sense of his surroundings. He is wearing a dressing gown so we know that he has been there for a while but we are not told any more information about it.

The next scene shoots back to colour and we see him interacting with the motel assistant, though we can't tell what he is saying, the camera then jumps to a close up of someone coming through the door, we know that this person is familiar to him as he calls he by a nick name, the camera cuts back to Leonard so we can see his facial expression.

sound/How is sexuality represented in skins

• Tv drama
• sexuality
• moral panics

Diegetic-natural sound added to a scene

Non Diegetic- sound added to a scene /soundtrack potential problem- less realistic, potential benefit-more dramatic

Sound bridge-sound which carries over two scenes, literally creating 'bridge' between events

Incedental music-short sequence of sound to create an emotion/feeling.

Asychronons- sound which creates an opposite emotion to the one on screen.

Contrapunctual-sound which creates an opposite emotion to the one on screen.

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The clip starts with the camera giving us an close up of the guys face, his eyes are already open when we see the shot of him in his bed, this shows us that he hasn't been sleeping. The shot is also a slow outwards after we have the close up, the slow zoom tells me that he is tired or it would have been a fast paced camera shot that would have shown that he was feeling more active.
also in this scene we can hear church bells, this might suggest that the character has either been woken up by the bells or that the bells hold some symbolic meaning to him.
We then get to see the bedspread that he's lying under, it has a naked man and women on it, this could suggest that the character is a very bold person and doesn't really care what other people think, and it doesn't look like a bedspread that his parents would by for him so he probably bought it himself, this also shows independence. The other thing that I could infer from the sheet , is that he is lying in the middle of the two naked people in the sheet this could suggest that he is bi-sexual. This links back to the church bells and it could suggest that he is awake because of a quarrel with his sexuality and his faith.
Then then get a shot of his room as the camera comes out, we can see that he is a very tidy person.
We also see in the corner of his room a supermarket packing trolley, you could only acquire one of those by stealing it, this tells us that he isn't a goody two shoes kid and to be able to get the trolley into his room must have made a lot of noise, surely his parents might have noticed unless from this we could tell that is parents don't really care about him or what he does.

Representation Of Ethnicity In Hotel Babylon clip.

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The first ethnicity we see in the scene is black people,the first character that we are introduced to is Benjamin, he looks very smart in his suit and tie and seems to be helpful and slightly reserved when he spots someone from his past, instantly we he seems to spot him he tries to walk away but fears it's to late and he has spotted him, this makes me think that Benjamin didn't want to be spotted by the other character.  From the dialogue we hear that Benjamin is very anxious and wants to split of from the conversation as he Say's that he must get back to the desk, the other character looks very informal as he is only wearing swimming shorts and has his hair in dreadlocks and stereotypical hairstyle for black people. The language that the other character uses is very much more relaxed and has lots of slang in it, in this instant we can see that the two black character's are binary opposites, though we can pick up that Benjamin used to be more like the other character but he has seemed to grow up and get a good job, unlike the other black character who still seems to think that Benjamin hasn't changed in 7 years. Benjamin is very on edge when he is with the other character like he isn't really proud of what he did in the past but doesn't want to be seen as weak to the other character because he still cares what he thinks, and he still wants to be respected by him. The music in the background has a very light beat which is very audible and makes the confrontation with Benjamin seem a bit more tense.


In the next scene we see two ethnicity portrayed, Japanese and European  people. 
We see two maids going into a customer's bedroom, the older of the two women seems to have done a striptease for the old Japanese man before as see explains how Mr Matsui pays more when there are more people stripping for him.
The cleaning staff  being European and female is also a stereotype, saying that because they chose to come to Britain the qualifications mean less so they have to except the more menial jobs.
As the camera enters the room we can see the Japanese man sitting on his bed ready for the maids, he doesn't talk at all except for saying "ho" we seems to say because he is Japanese he English isn't very good, the scene also works well as it plays off the stereotype that Japanese men are perverts. 
Mr Matsui is a overweight old Japanese man that wears glasses ,this is also a very stereotypical view of a Japanese man and if we look carefully in the shot we can see that his room is very tidy and the money is in two very neat piles this plays off another stereotype that Japanese people are very clean this isn't a bad stereotype but it's a stereotype non the less.
We can see by now that the two maids are being paid to strip for the man, this scene becomes more intense as the music comes on, a funky song with a very strong bass line for dancing to, by this time one of the maids has taken off her uniform and we can see that she is very lingerie specific for the task as it isn't your everyday underwear, it gives us another stereotype that because the women are in low paid jobs that they would do anything for money.


In the next scene we can see an Asian assistant, she enters the room quite cautiously, she is very polite and cooperative with the demands of 'Mr Taylor'. Mr Taylor is portrayed as a very angry and rude man, this is a age old stereotype of Old British men, not very nice to others and not being considerate enough to thank the person who just helped them.
The assistant in the scene doesn't like Mr Taylor as she comments on how may time that he has ran out of toilet paper, she knows that see has to be civil to the man but doesn't think that he deserves the respect that he is given.


In the final scene we are introduced to the cooking staff, we are told be for that the Italian chief has been working his way round all the kitchen staff and has slept with a co workers wife and made her leave him and move in with the Italian chief.
When we first see both chief's together we can see that they are wearing completely binary colours , black and white, this can be interpreted in a variety of ways like Th Italian chief is evil because he is wearing black and he has wronged the chief in white, it can also be seen as yin and yang how we need both for balance.
There are many stereotypes in this scene, like the Italian chief is portrayed as sneaky and a womaniser, and thinks more of himself because he is Italian. The English man is very large and fat, he also has a red face this is a stereotype of English males that the series uses to show us why the English chiefs wife had left him for a Italian guy. in the scene the Italian chief acts like everything is alright between him and the English chief but when the management staff leave we see there true colours and see another stereotype of how both Italian and English people can be very hot headed and willing to fight.


the characters to racist because it plays off our already present prejudices to enforce there story lines .

How does Calvin Klein represent Eva Mendes in the advert below?

Just by looking at the stance of Eva Mendes we can already tell that she is being powerful and dominating, the wider stance of her legs suggest her being ready to be pushed away, this tells me that she has adopted this stance as a sign of her strong will and determination. She is also wearing high heels this gives her extra height this suggests that being taller makes you look more intimidating and less likely to be pushed around, the shoes are also being used so that it draws our attention to her legs, they also make her legs look slimmer.

It we then go higher we focus on her hands and we realise that she is not wearing a ring, this is a subtle way of suggesting that she is an independent woman. Her hands are also situated on her hips this makes her look like she is adopting a more aggressive stance, it tells me that Eva is a very capable woman and doesn't need looking after. 

If we look a her head we can see that she isn't looking at the camera this creates a more 'not really bothered' attitude that us men seem to like, plus the look is mysterious and alluring but it's also a useful device which makes the person viewing the poster look at the underwear and that's essentially what the poster is trying to promote.

In the picture Eva's hair is wet I think that it shows her as a busy person who has just got out of the shower because they are attending at event where they want to look there best, I think that it suggests that Calvin Klein represents females as being very much different from the age old stereotypes of how the woman's place is the home and she needs to cook and look after the kids, she seems to break of the shackles of sexually repression and developed into a new breed of woman in the 21st century who are sexually empowered and who's mentality has completely changed to  cope with the new ideology of the 21st century. Her teeth are also slightly apart this makes her take on a more feral dangerous beast look which shows Eva being very capable of defending herself, women would also aspire to her look because it would make them feel more empowered and less weak or defenseless. 

The low angle shot that is used in the poster makes Eva seem very powerful and commanding this promotes that the woman who wants to seem more powerful and controlling would want to buy the underwear because it shows that they to like the image of Eva being empowered as a woman. It also makes it seem that she is looking down on us and we are not worthy to be in her presence, it makes you feel that she is so much better than you just by being slightly more elevated giving her a sense of more power being the larger presence.

The colour also works in her favour as black is usually thought o a more serious colour that contrasts with the white background really well. Black is also a more mature and sexy colour that both men and woman like, though it's black in the poster to promote that Calvin Klein's underwear isn't just for any occasion. It also makes Eva look more natural with her pose compared to page 3 girls who's positioning seems very fake and immature(not that I would know).

Also note the suspenders that she's wearing, there not only stylish but they also draw your attention to the legs and general pants area. Also the Calvin Klein logo is positioned just to the right of her legs i think that this has been strategically placed so we are drawn to the leg area without even realising.