Freedom Writers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvTFaoxIfhwA dedicated teacher within a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers, who are deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future.
She assigns reading material that related to their lives and encourages them all to keep the journals in order to express their feelings and personal situations. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace.
The film was dedicated to the memory of Armand Jones who was killed after wrapping up the film. He was eighteen and shot to death after confrunting a robber.
The soundtracks consist of 'A Dream' produced by Will.I.Am, Tupacs song 'Keep Ya Head Up' and the instrumental section of Sia's 'Breathe Me' accompanying the trailer.
Overall the film was given 69% poitive reviews.
Freedom Writers was directed by Richard La Gravenese and based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Grunell and her class.
At the beginning of the trailer, the first shot sets the scene and general situation of the film -what was happening in that society within that time period and place.
The different cut scenes jump from one to another, these put together create the background history of why the violence is occuring.
During the trailer there are various voice overs covering perticulare scenes, this gives the person the role of the narrator, someone who tells the situation as it is and holds no power over the different situations.
