How Garrow's Law uses camera shots,sound,mise en scene to construct representations of ethnicity

Garrow's Law is a period-piece T.V drama recounting the life of the famous barrister who championed the rights of prisoners in the courtroom.Each T.V drama episode is a retelling of a different crime in which William Garrow was the laywer for the defendant.In this specific episode the subject matter is the brutality of the slave trade.
I chose to analyze the opening 3 minutes as there is much introduced in terms of ethnicity very early on

Camera Shots
There were many camera shots in the first three minutes of the program which define at least three different nationalities with huge contrasts between them. 51 seconds into the program we have an extreme close-up of a pair of feet with black skin and manacles clamped on them.This, combined with the knowledge that this is a late 18th century period drama, tells us that the man is a chained slave.By way of contrast the medium close-up of the main character Garrow emerging from a horse-drawn carriage shows the  luxury caucasian people were enjoying at this period in history.The long-shot of a man with a powdered face and make-up with lace shows the presence of 18th century French aristocrat in this program.This highlights two things 1.:London's diverse culture even 200 years ago 2.: That the French revolution has happened explaining the presence of France's aristocracy. There is a tracking shot of 4 people (one English aristocrat and three servants) walking through a palatial estate which through its panning encompasses all the opulence the aristocracy enjoyed at the time creating a great sense of injustice when compared to the close-up of the black as white people here clearly enjoy greater riches.however the medium close-up of a woman in rags standing at a defendants stand in court reminds us of the distinct class system white people in Britain did have.

Mise En Scene                    
In the first scene the slave whose feet are attached to each other by a pair of manacles is lying on a beach. This shows he has been shipwrecked or discarded from a slave galley symbolising once again the disgraceful power white people had over black people in this time period. This is supported by costume of the slave which are mere rags. This clothing really tells us he's a slave as if we had just seen the manacles we could have also made the assumption that he was a prisoner.Additionally the grey sky and colour of this brief scene reflects the grim life enslaved black people found in this time period. To contrast that completely the rich colour of beige stone and green grass which is present in the estates of the aristocrats emphasise a (unjustly
happier life. This itself is contrasted by the dim lighting of the courtrooms signifying the gloom and coldness of the trials in which foreigners and lower-class white people showing the unjust power the wealthy white Englishmen have over other ethnicities at this moment in history.

Editing
In the first scene the cuts from the slave's feet to his still head and hands fully signify the fact that he is dead implying the disregard his "owners" had for his life. This reminds us again of his race and how it was viewed as "cargo" and "disposable".The jump cut from that scene to that of a horse-drawn carriage with Garrow inside it shows how different the two races are in terms of wealth and comfort in this era.While the jump-cut from a weatherbeaten man in plain clothes to a lady in a refined gown being helped by a servant out of a coach shows the different classes within the white English race. Another cut that shows this is the cut from a girl in rags talking to Garrow himself interrupting her. The difference between the girls "cockney" accent and humble clothing to Garrow's "posh" accent and fashionable dress shows again the difference in class of those of the same ethnicity.Also the cuts in the courtroom from jury,judge,prosecutor,defender and barrister's reveals only white people implying a racism to the courtroom law.

Sound
In the start of the first scene Minamalist music is used as part of the soundtrack which lends a feeling of misery and coldness which reinforces the sense of misery and coldness we get when viewing the dead slave and makes us feel pity for him and the injustice commited against his race.The diagetic sound of wine pouring into a cup shows the wealth and prosperity of a British citizen at this time (how they could afford wine in comparison to other cultures who couldn't afford bread).The melodic change in the soundtrack to a major key when the scene changes to the rich people who live in the estate shows how happy they are thanks to the inherited wealth their titles of nobility provide them with showing here again the unjustness of how a minority of white English people never have to work when there are millions of other people, white and black, who do.Tying into this is the diagetic sound of laughter the rich white jury give the working-class girls story of how she is innocent showing an arrogance and ignorance of the wealthy that give other Englishmen a bad name. 

The Inbetweener's T.V Trailer

I decided to de-constuct the trailer for series two.This is because it parodies to great success the stereotypical characters we have grown accustomed to in other teenage/school drama's.The trailer focuses in on each of the four characters in a comprimising position before giving them a contrasting tagline. For one character who is waving creepily towards another girl he clearly has a crush on. A subtitle comes up saying "The Romantic" before the character is promptly hit in the face by a football. With another who has managed to get his head stuck in a chair there is a label saying "The Genus". For another guy who appears too effortlessly charm girls is the title "The Ladies Man" before the cut to his back reveals what exactly the girls had been looking at. a piece of paper saying "I have no penis". The final character who is seen handing out leaflets has the title of "The Hero" before someone creeps up behind him and pulls his trousers down. These parody of a typical school T.V show manages to satirise while presentng something new and funny. From a technical standpoint the standout images are the close-up camera shot cuts between "The Romantic" and the girl he's waving at (after the 3rd cut he gets hit in the face by a football).Also the three different shots of "The Genius" All three of which were panning but in different proximity (close up,medium close-up,long shot)

All of the trailers are similar in that they all devote at least 3 individual shots to each of the 4 main characters as so they can best establish who the main characters are. However in the trailer for the first series the character of Will got far more screen time than any of the other three. However in the trailers for the other two series all the characters get more or less the same screen time. Ths shows that all 4 of the main characters received equal appreciaton from audiences as time went on.

How are camera shots and movement used in each trailer to represent the characters and the period

When watching the trailer for "desperate romantics" I found it easy to identify what kind of show it was from the different camera shots and angles that took place. The contrast of the brief close-up shots of exploding paintings with the slow-motion medium close -up shots of the three main protagonists (deliberately looking over-the-top) lends the trailer a sense of humour which leads us to assume that this program is supposed to be a self-mocking period piece this is also supported by the combination of high-angle and point-of-view shots. because the camera is so overreactive it seems funny. Also because of these unconventional camera angles we get the impression that this is a period-piece that goes for a modern tone (like A knights tale etc.)

the trailer for Downton Abbey was far more fast-paced.and with the fleeting close-ups of many different characters faces we can realise that this is a huge cast and that the staff at this abbey is indeed large. Also important are the reflected shots of certain characters through mirrors which signify secrecy. We can also distinguish the more prominent cast-members as they have more shots than others or in two cases lines of dialogue. Maggie Smith is visibly the most important character or at least the character they are most determined to highlight as she at one point has two medium close-ups of herself edited into one another. Also the great sweeping tracking shots and camera pans of fields,horses and the abbey itself remind us of what period we are in.