THEME 7 LET FREEDOM RING Discuss In pairs, discuss the images in the music video for the song ‘Freedom’.
1. What images stand out to you both? 2. What do you associate with the images you have chosen? 3. How are the images associated with freedom or a lack of freedom? 4. Choose the lyrics that stand out most. Compare your choices.
Understand
1. Describe the rhythm of the song. 2. Choose one example of the freedom of the natural world in the song’s lyrics. 3. Explain your understanding of the following lines: ‘Mind, use your power’ ‘Spirit, use your wings’
Explore
1. Reflect on the image that most stands out to you in the music video or song lyrics. (a) Write a description of the image in the space provided on page 77 your Portfolio.
(b) Form groups of four to discuss your chosen images. Use the ranking ladder provided on page 77 of your Portfolio. Each person should write about their favourite image in the spaces provided in each corner of the ranking ladder. As a group, you should decide which three images are most relevant to the theme of freedom. List these in the ladder located in the centre of the page.
2. This song was included on the soundtrack to the film Despicable Me 3. (a) Name another film that this song could be used in. (b) Explain how the theme of this song is relevant to the plot of your chosen film.
