Freedom Writers By: Maya Mohan Freedom writers is a book consisting of the diary entries of a classroom of a troubled youth from the inner cities struggling just to make it through each day. A courageous and kind-hearted teacher‚ Ms. Erin Gruwell took on the class as a first year teacher at Woodrow Wilson High school in Long Beach‚ California. She pushed past the students’ reputations‚ lack of funds and non supportive co-workers to help these kids achieve something many of them thought they’d never
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Freedom Writers Essay In the movie‚ The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could‚ to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students were divided along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge
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Burton is known for his movies that are appealed by children‚ yet have a dark and eerie twist. His films all have certain cinematic techniques that create a spooky and creepy feeling. In these films‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ and Corpse Bride all use lighting‚ music/sound‚ and editing as these techniques. In Burton’s films he uses many cinematic techniques to create the dark and eerie feeling. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ low-key lighting is shown when people are
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rank than them. Fury does a first-rate job of showing a lot of props like all of the kit‚ garments‚ and medals that embody the “Fury” tank. The medals being the one thing that the camera really hones in on whilst inside the tank.. Ayer uses the technique called the “Long Shot” a plethora of times to show more than just a close up visual of what is occurring.. As a matter of fact the
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The movie “The Freedom Writers” is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell’s English classes at Wilson High‚ an integrated school with students of all racial and cultural backgrounds. As a new teacher she is given the lowest achieving students. For safety and belonging most of these students belong to racial gangs and bring this social concept into the class by sitting in racial arrangements. Their morals and self concept are defined by these gangs‚ as shown by Eva’s statement of “we protect our
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For this assignment I chose to watch Freedom Writers. This is a heartfelt movie about a teacher named Erin Gruwell who finds a way to unify her disadvantaged‚ racially divided students and to improve their grasp of academics‚ partly by having them keep journals about their violent‚ troubled lives. The main diversity issue in this movie is cultural‚ ethnic‚ and racial tensions. According to Storti (1999)‚ “Culture is the shared assumptions‚ values‚ and beliefs of a group of people which result in
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In Tim Burton films‚ the use of cinematic techniques helps the audience feel a sense of unease contrasted with a sense of comfort and safety. Burton uses techniques such as lighting‚ camera angles and shots and framing to depict and highlight different emotions throughout his films. Burton’s job working at Disney helped him develop a thing for comfort and safety due to the children’s stories and scripts he worked on at Disney. He also has an interest in peculiar objects and characters. When both
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Cinematic Techniques Writing The main idea or ideas of this paper is to show how Tim Burton used all of the cinematic techniques to create mood and tone. He uses all of these techniques to show fear or other feeling towards the subject that is happening. We watched three of his movies and he had shown many different angles of the camera and lighting. In the movie Bigfish Burton used close‚ medium‚ and long shots. Long shots were when he was jumping out of that plane or when he was fishing ing
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Tim burton used many cinematic techniques to create a fantastical and mesmerizing unique world that only he can create. The three cinematic techniques he uses to create his own unique style are music‚ lighting and shots. In the following essay i will describe in detail and give examples of the miraculous way Tim Burton creates a world of his own. One of the techniques Tim Burton uses to create his own world is music. Tim Burton uses music in his movies to set the mood or the tone for the scene
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The movie “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock has a deeper emotional weight with its audience than the book “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier because of Hitchcock’s deliberate use of setting‚ imagery‚ and mood in the cinematic experience. Alfred Hitchcock is known as a master of the cinematic arts for his preeminent style when designing a setting. The movie depicts a small town‚ known as Bodega Bay‚ near the beach in the early 1960s. This town is a peaceful town where nothing disastrous ever happens‚
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