Cry Freedom

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Cry Freedom

• Group Members Christina Pan
• Alice
• Erin

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Background Information of Cry Freedom

• Presenter Christina Pan

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General Facts About South Africa

• Population approx. 43,424,386 people
• Ethnic Groups 75.2 black
• 13.6 white
• 8.6 colored
  (mixed race)
• 2.6 Indians
• Language 11 official languages-
• English
• Afrikaans
• 9 African
  languages

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Brief History of S.A-chronology of important
events

• 16 century- Portuguese ships landed at Table Bay.
  Bantu-speaking farmers and herdsmen establish
  trade with Europeans.
• 1652- First permanent Dutch settled at Cape of
  Good Hope.
• 1688- French Hughenoots begin to settle at the
  Cape
• 1795- Britain seize control of the Cape
• 1814-London Convention Dutch formally cede Cape
  to British
• 1836-40-Afrikaners migrate eastward.
• 1948-76-Apartheid (??????)
• 1990-94-Dismantled apartheid

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Background Information of Afrikaners

• 7 of the population in S.A
• Ancestor Dutch settlers
• Most of them are farmers
• Many Afrikaners forebears arrived in S.A in
  search of independence from government
  oppression.
• Fought wars with Khoikhoi,Xhosa, and British
  armies to claim land.
• Defeated in the Boer War
• 1940 the National Party gained appeal among
  Afrikaners by emphasizing racial separation
• Brought apartheid into all areas of social and
  economic life in S.A

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Separate and Unequaleducation and jobs for the
blacks

• The concept of unequal allocation of resources
  was built into legislation on general facilities,
  education, and jobs.
• The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act stated
  that all races should have separate
  amenities(????).
• The Extension of University Act prohibited blacks
  from attending white institutions and established
  separate schools for the blacks.
• Black school had inferior facilities, teachers,
  and textbooks.
• Certain works were reserved only for the whites.
• Millions of black workers were unqualified for
  anything but the lowest-paid jobs.

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Background information of Steve Biko

• Born on 18 December 1946, King Williams Town,
  Eastern Cape.
• He was expelled from his first school for
  anti-establishment behavior.
• Transferred to a Roman Catholic boarding school
  in Natal.
• Enrolled at the University of Natal Medical
  School.
• One of the founders of the Black People
  Convention(BPC) working on social upliftment
  projects.
• Elected as the president of BPC and was expelled
  from medical school.
• Banned by the Apartheid government in 1973.
• Arised Black Consciousness.

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Black Consciousness

• Steve Biko argued that blacks often oppressed
  themselves by acceptong the second-class status
  accorded to them by the apartheid system, and he
  stressed that they had to liberate themselves
  mentally and physically.
• He rejected the use of violence and emphasized
  that only nonviolent methods should be used in
  the struggle against apartheid.

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Historical Scenes In Cry Freedom

• The raid on Crossroads squatters camp.
• 1975
• An violent act to remove the blacks resident
• II. The Soweto student strike
• 16th June, 1976
• The children of Soweto organized a march in
  protest being taught in Afrikaans and against the
  Bantu Education system
• The police opened fired.
• The government responded by banning the Black
  Consciousness Movement and many other political
  organizations.

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Media Matters
Presenter Erin Su
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Flashback

• --Flashback is used to take us back to the result
  of the actual inquest before the Woods escaping
  in January, 1978.
• Crossroads squatters camp in 1975?
• meeting between Biko and Woods in 1975?
• Bikos arrest and subsequent death on 12th,
• September, 1977?Woods decided to force an
  inquest into Bikos death? Woods escaped to
  England to publish the book of Bikos story
• --To rearrange the chronological sequence of
  events.

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Freeze framing

• --Drill key images into our brain, ensuring that
  certain signals of a central message are being
  received by the audience.
• --Also help to authenticate these images, as a
  historical scene.
• ex. the opening images the approaching of the
• police cars

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Photo-journalistic techniques

• --telex messages
• ---these cues question about who these
• people are and about what is going on
• ---makes the whole event much more
• evident and convincing

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• ---staggered zoom
• ---increase the tension, threaten, chaos, and
• panic
• ex. close ups of individuals caught up in the
• raid the approaching vehicles the
• screaming baby

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• ---superimposed image of a telescope gunsight
• ---heightens the drama and immediacy of the
• attack, giving it an authentic feel
• ---create an air of chaos and panic
• ---has the similar function of staggered zoom