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Freedom Writers Film Study

Freedom Writers Film Study. Film – What to do we study?. Plot Character Setting Theme Genre Techniques What questions do we ask about each?. Representation. Cast members – the cast is a mixture of: Famous actors Unknown actors Real holocaust survivors

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Freedom Writers Film Study

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  1. Freedom WritersFilm Study

  2. Film – What to do we study? • Plot • Character • Setting • Theme • Genre • Techniques What questions do we ask about each?

  3. Representation Cast members – the cast is a mixture of: • Famous actors • Unknown actors • Real holocaust survivors For each, explain why they might have been used?

  4. Representation Identify all of the cultural groups portrayed in the film. For each discuss if you think the representations are challenging or stereotypical

  5. Genre Freedom Writers is part of a sub genre of classroom/transformation films, similar to films such as: Dangerous Minds and Coach Carter. It deals with the ideas of class, ethnicity, tolerance and teenage identity. Answer the following questions: • Which elements of FW did you find most interesting or significant? • What does this film have in common with other films you have seen? • What is different about Freedom Writers?

  6. Film Techniques Create a glossary for the following terms: • structure • narrative point of view • verbal features - music, sound effects, dialogue • visual features - camera techniques, lighting, props, costumes, colour These techniques are used to develop the plot, character and theme.

  7. Character For one character you need to be able to: • Describe a character • Explain how the character changes/develops throughout • Describe the relationship the characters has with others • Explain how the character relates to theme

  8. Theme

  9. Close Viewing Chart

  10. Rodney King • Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California) is an African-American taxi driver who, in 1991, was stopped and then beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sergeant Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the event from a distance. Part of the video was broadcast around the world and shows four LA police officers restraining and repeatedly striking a black man, while four to six other officers stand by.

  11. The L.A Riots • The news of acquittal triggered the Los Angeles riots of 1992. By the time the police, the US Army, the Marines and the National Guard restored order, the casualty included 55 deaths, 2,383 injuries, more than 7,000 fires, damages to 3,100 businesses, and nearly $1 billion in financial losses. Smaller riots occurred in other cities such as Las Vegas and Atlanta. On May 1, 1992, the third day of the L.A riots, King appeared in public before television news cameras to appeal for calm.

  12. Martin Luther King Jr – I have a Dream • "I Have A Dream" is the popular name given to the historic public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites among others would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over two hundred thousand civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history.

  13. Analysing the opening sequence For each of the following events: • Describe how they been used in the opening sequence • Explain why the director has chosen to refer to them? Consider the plot, characters and the themes. Events (Write each as a subheading and complete the tasks above) • The Rodney King beating • The L.A Riots • Martin Luther King Jrs “I have a Dream” speech

  14. The Holocaust • The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a programme of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

  15. Freedom Writers Vocabulary list • Genre • Ethnicity • Tolerance • Acquittal • coexist • Genocide • extermination • Holocaust

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