English - Costumes

 1. The Reaping Scene - District 12

- The children of the district have gathered together for the reaping to select the tributes.

- Boys - Shirts - buttoned / collars, shorts, pants, whites, colourless, faded, dull, overwashed.

- Girls - Dresses, shirt and shirt.

- Best clothes, probably only worn once a year, worn out colourless, faded.

Viewer - we feel sorry for the people, they seem powerless, they live in poor conditions.

Director purpose - show us how bad their conditions are, wants us to see them as weak, unprepared, hopeless.

Other techniques - high angle with the faded colours make them seem weak, vulnerable, helpless.

2. The Capitol - arriving in the city.

- Katness and Peeta have arrived by train in the Capitol.

- The clothes are extravagant!

- colourful, vibrant.

- Accessories - hats / earings / make - up / wigs / shoes / bags / dogs.

- New - like only warn once "fashionable" access to good quality fabrics, patterns.

Viewer Effect - makes them seem higher ranks, privileged, relaxed, we don't like the - the attitude of entitlement, clueless.

Director Purpose - shows themes of imbalance of power + rich vs poor,

Other techniques - the setting is crowded, people are happy, buildings are modern, big well kept. This shows that Capitol is privileged.

3. The Countdown

- The tributes have just arrived in the arena and are waiting to start games.

- Costumes - Survival gear, browns, black, dark colours, jackets, pants, t-shirts, designed to looks good, to be practical, lightweight.

- Viewer Effect - the tributes look prepared, fit, athletic

- Directors Purpose - they are going to die, the outfits are just for the audience ( the capitol ) makes it seem more pagent like.

Other Techniques - silence - worried, excited to see what happens, anxious, builds tension, makes the audience focus.

Angles, movements & shots

The Reaping Scene

• Katniss volunteers as tribute when her sister is chosen
• the children/parents of the district give her the three-finger salute
•  Peeta is chosen as the male tribute 

Hope & rebellion- three-finger salute - it's a sign of respect for katniss from the people of her district

- Katniss is a symbol of hope for a district victor 

- Katniss is a symbol of rebellion because she steps in for her sister (a weaker character) when she is reaped 

Rich vs Poor

Symbol- Effie Trinket - extreme make-up, wig, hat, overly colourful and flash outfit,

Technolgy- use of blood readers scanners, projectors

Poverty- District 12- children's outfits for reaping are their best clothes, dresses, shirts- collared, boys shorts or pants, the colour of clothes are very faded from washes & reusing

- the village is falling down around them

Close-up faces- primrose when reaped- terror, fear

- Effie- joyful, confident, excited- close of lips when reading names

- Katniss- panics when prim is reaped, shock when she stands with Effie. 

-Peeta- fear, panic, shock

Shallow Focus- people in the background are in shallow faces when firm & Katness Hug. This forces the viewer to watch the characters in focus

Director Purpose - Need to be invested in their journey/suffering - need to be angry at Capitol so that we judge them and their decisions later. - Effie is depicted as a symbol of the people in the District, they are clueless - don't see the suffering.

Music- the music starts as we move to picking the boys minor key, tempo- slower, dynamic starts to build intensity, mood- tension, morose

Lighting- Bright, grey, natural, cold, mood - sad, depressed

Colour- dull, cold, palette- grey, white, blue, faded, washed out

Atmosphere- despair, sorry, for the people, poverty, run-down

Facial expressions- are dull, bland & sad matching the lighting & colour

Themes and Ideas

Rich vs Poor-  some people have more- Capitol

money, privileges, food/food variety, resources, proper housing,

technology, medicines, clothing/ make-up, Transport, childhoods, Education

Hope Makes rebellion- Hope is the belief that something will get better.

Rebellion means to fight against something protest, uprise, usually against a Government.

Symbols of Hope- Katniss Everdeen, melodic motive, mocking Jay, 3 finger salute.

struggle for Power-   

Currently, the Capitol has Power- President Snow, Katniss becomes a rival for power- people look up to her for guidance, becomes a threat because Snow sees her as one.

" Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear a little hope is effective a lot of hope is dangerous" 

Fear- The people are afraid of rebelling because the last time they tried they failed and they were punished with the hunger games

Little hope- becoming a victor

Dangerous hope- That the districts deserve to be treated better. 

Power of Propaganda- propaganda is information of a biased or misleading nature used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Messages being told- it's not worth rebelling, 

the capitol is the strongest, 

things are good the way they are

Rich vs Poor - people in the capitol vs people in the districts.

                      - Compare the opening shot in District 12 vs peta looking out the window at the capitol.

                      - District 12 - poor - houses - rundown, wooden

                                          - food - very little, see old man picking at bone.

                                          - clothing - 1 pair of good clothes, warn out, old colours are faded, grey/black -                                            easier to not show coal dust.

                      - Capitol - houses - large, concrete, metals, accents gold / silver.

                                     - food - variety of choices, dont have the same things, more than enough - excess.

                                     - clothing - fancy, suits, extravagant, fashion, extreme, excess.

Hope and Rebellion - Conro president snow + Sencia Craine

                                 - A little hope quote

                                 - Conro between Hamich + Sencia

                                 - Give them something to root for, young love!

Struggle for power - Katniss + Peta eat the berries.

                               - Death of Rue = riot in District 11

Power of Propaganda - Subtle 

                                    - Hunger Games film strip.

What happened in the scenez:

- Peta and Prim Rose who are teenagers got chosen to go fight at the huger games.

- Prim Rose's sister wanted to go to the hunger games instead of her sister because she didn't want her little sister to go. 

- Effre Trinket was the woman to pick the boy and girl to go to the hunger games out of the big bowl full of names.