Freedom Writers
What happened in the clip?
A student was reading a part of his journal to the class - he’d been evicted, felt at home at school in the teachers class.
Techniques:
Close up
Shows emotions and expression.
Zoom in-face, zoom out
Dramatic music
Mid shot
Shallow focus
Know what to look at it.
Colour - attractive
Lighting, bright, natural
Explain - a student stands and reads from his journal about being evicted from his home. Shallow focus is used to show the emotions of the speaker as well as those listening to him.
X (audience) - This makes the audience feel sad for the reader because he has a hard life. The shallow focus is used to show his emotions as he reads.
X (director) - The director did this in order to show the class has become united and a safe welcoming place. We see the class around him out of focus and then we see their reactions in shallow focus.
X (aspects) - This worked well with music. As the student reads about being evicted, the music is slow and quiet, eventually growing to be louder and faster as the mood lifts. Shallow focus and music combined both show how the emotion changes from sad to happy as he speaks about feeling at home in class with his classmates and teacher.
