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‘You Clap For Me Now’ Visual Analysis

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April 24, 2020 by aslan79457@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg

Photo 1:

Clap – This shows appreciation for the migrant workers and for what they do. Every Thursday at 8 pm people clap for the essential workers that are doing everything they can to protect everyone. This emphasizes that migrant workers should be appreciated because they play a crucial role during this time.

Stethoscope – This symbolizes what the doctors do and reminds us of doctors.

The background –  We can see the reflection of the sunset/sunrise in the window which shows us how hard the doctors work, and that they work 24/7 to protect us.

Ethnicity – She is white. This is trying to show that all doctors, no matter their ethnicity do the same thing, and the same job, so nobody needs to discriminate against them because if they aren’t discriminating the white people, the immigrants shouldn’t be discriminated against either.

Photo 2:

The background – it is full of posters about COVID-19. People see immigrants as more of the virus, xenophobia. The posters talk about the causes of the virus, and the contrast between the nurse and the posters shows xenophobes that immigrants are completely different from the causes of the virus and they shouldn’t be blamed.

Ethnicity – Not white, not from the UK. Trying to say that everyone in our community is helping to ‘prop up your hospitals’ and that they shouldn’t be discriminated against because they are doing everything they can to help.

Photo 3:

Don’t forget – The immigrants are saying that their role in fighting the pandemic shouldn’t be forgotten and that they helped a lot to contain the situation, by either being a doctor or any other essential worker.

Closed curtains – This goes with what the man is saying ‘when it’s no longer quiet’ because by saying this he means when the pandemic is over. So the closed curtains represent how the virus is over. It can also show that the role of the immigrants may not be clear to others because of the closed curtain, they are working ‘behind the scenes’, so people don’t know that they are helping a lot too.


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