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Key Words

High concept film:A film with a big budget and state of the art special effects, Usually associated with US productions. The insitutions MTV films and Paramount are huge instituions.
Narrative:The story line and structure of a media text.
Freedom writes follows a Tororovian narrative structure,
Predjudice:The pre- judging of an issue or social group, usually in a negative or stereotypical way.Youths are presented in the text may be pre- judged ina negative way due to stereotypes attatched to them.
Realism: A film and television style that attempts to represents the real life situation. In freedom writers, it is clear to see how the issues are all based on a real life story, so this makes it look authentic as possible.
Propp:Looked at familiar character roles which appear in texts.The characters of a hero and villian are present in this text.
Representation:The process whereby the media constructs versions of people, places and events in images, words or sound for transmission through media texts to an audience.
Sound effects:Enhanced sound added to a film or television programme during post production.The music used in this film is very significant as it represents the culture shown in this film.
Split screen:An editing technique which involves the cinema screen being split into two or more parts to allow the showing of events that are taking place at the same time.Split screen has been used in this text several times in order to show different things which are taking place at the same time, this is used to build up tension.
Trailer:A short teaser produced to advertise a new film.A trailer was produced in order to advertise 'freedom writers.'

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