RAP/HIP HOP MUSICRELIGION - FREEDOM WRITERS - ASSIGNMENT

MUSIC IN THE FILMMusic plays a big role in Freedom Writers.

It sets the mood, tone, and atmosphere of many scenes.

It also helps gives the audience insight into the culture these kids were living in.

A little need to know on music…

Hip hop music is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

It can also include beat boxing where an artist would create the rhythm from his voice and mouth.

Characters and Music

The students in the movie seem to know a lot about music.

The music they listen to is relatable and they connect to the feelings that come across in the hip hop music.

Hope in the filmThe film captures a broken segment of our culture that is not pretty. While these inner city students faced violence and other real concerns of safety.

These were students without hope.

Creating HOPEFUL HIP HOPYour assignment is going to be to write and create a hip hop song that could inspire hope for students who faced the same struggles as the freedom writers.