Minder

during the 1970's immigration, unemployment and crime rates were all fairly key issues. Idi Amin expelled 80,000 African Asians from their contries and were encouraged to settle in the uk. this would explain the fact that during the clip, the men are keen to return to ethiopia. as well as this the fact that they're actually robbing the store is backed up by the fact that there was unemplyoment and the great depression was taking place. it could be seen that this is mainly responsible for the rise in crime figures. the clip backs this up by showing the need to rob a shop due to lack of money and harder times.

Margret Thatcher coming into power promoted economic and trade liberalization aswell as weakening the power of the trade unions. this fact also explains more of the clips background and allows us to understand more about why the clip shows what it does. aswell as this, the episode is dealing with something that was obviously of at least some importance at the time and this would not be brought to the attention of the creator if it had not been going on. it also reinforces the background of the episode.

the camera angles during the clip shows the robber on the left with the gun in a much more powerful light than any others. firstly, he's on the left which is the most powerful position. as well as this all angles on the man are low angled shots which make him seem much more powerful. on top of this all the other characters are show in high angled shots which shows the dominance over all of them, even the people helping him. the colour and style of the mans hat shows his loyalty to what the audience assumes is his own country. racial tention is shown when the man on the phone refers to the black men as "three spades". this shows the racial tention of the time. diversity within the three is shown mostly by the power differencial and shown most in the willingness to go to ethiopia. throughout the whole scene the man with the gun is constantly shown as the leader of the three. this is shown in many ways for example his voice, the way he stands, his physical appearance and the fact that he's holding a gun. the other two speak softer and with higher pitched voices and show their weaknesses much more.

from looking at both this clip and the one of Misfits, we can see that representations have definately changed and the way that people are represented on screen has definately changed dramatically. i do belive that this is partically to do with events and the way that people are viewed in modern times and how they differ from the seventies.