Conflict in Freedom Writers and Pumped Up Kicks

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Many composers represent conflict, even though you may not recognize it. Whether it’s a song about a breakup, a kid’s movie about princesses or a news article about last nights footy game.Conflict in the film freedom writers and the song pumped up kicks is shown by different techniques like camera shots, flashback, repetition and point of view. Freedom writers is heavily reliant on conflict as a theme, but to help put it into perspective uses a lot of techniques. One of these techniques is camera shots.In the film, camera shots are used to help the audience to understand the film better and make it interesting. You have to admit, a movie would be pretty boring if it only used one type of camera shot or angle the whole movie, right?One of the shots used in the film was the panning shot, used to show the conflict during the school fight, in one of Mrs. Gruwell’s first days. Another shot used in the movie was a high close up, used during the scene where the class is playing the line game; which shows emotion and similarity. The film freedom writers also uses the technique of flashback to set up the storyline and show how they got into gang violence. There is one scene at the start of the movie where Eva is telling us her story, where she quotes “An Aztec princess is chosen for her blood… to fight for her people….’’ Another scene in the film that shows conflict in the technique of flashback is when Mrs. Gruwell is reading the classes diaries for the first time. It is used to show how they all start getting into violence. This is an important technique as it helps understand what they are going through. The song Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People, which was written by Mark Foster, is written in the perspective of a troubled and delusional teenager with homicidal thoughts. Techniques used in this text are point of view and repetition.Point of view is important,
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