Workshop #3 Costumes

1 - The reaping scene - District 12 

The children of the district have gathered together for the reaping to selct the 2 tributes for the hungergames.

-Boys - collared/Buttoned shirts - Shorts - Pants - Whites, colourless, faded, overwashed, dull,

-Girls - Dresses, Shirt + Skirt, Dull, Colourless, Light colours, faded 

- Best Clothes they own, Worn once a year, Wornout, Dated and overused, 

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

- Directors purpose - Show the viewers how bad the conditions are in district 12, want us to feel sorry and generate sympathy for them so we see them as weak, hopless, unprepared. 

Other techniques - High angle shot used with the faded and wornout colours makes them look weak and powerless/ vulnerable. 

2 - Arriving in the city - The capitol 

Katniss + Peeta have arrived by train in the capitol. 

- The clothes are Extravagant and over the top, Colourful, Vibrant, Acsessories and decorative items, Wigs, Stylish and clolours and stykes match, Animals as accesories, New, Clean and well crafted, Fashionable, High quality Fabrics, Diverse Clothing to oneanother, ]

-Effect on Viewer - Make them seem more higher rank, Privaliged, Relaxed and neat, We envy them, Cocky, Attitude of entitlement, Clueless, 

-Directors purpose - Wants to label the capitol villains and blame them for the hungergames. Wants us to see them as Clueless and privilaged compared to the districts, imbalance of power. Clear examples of themes, rich vs poor, struggle for power. 

Other techniques - Setting, crowded, people are happy and buildingare clean, big, modern, working together with costumes shows us that the capitol is more privilaged compared to districts. 

3 -  The countdown - The arena,  cornucopia

The tributes have entered the arena and are waiting to start the games. 

- Costumes - Survival gear, Browns blacks dark reds, dark colours, Jakets, pants, T-shirts, Practical \, Designed for use, Designed to look good. Prepared for the enviourments and tempurature they may experience during the games. Boys hair is cut short, Females hair is tied. 

Viewer effect - The tributes look trained and prepared to fight for their life, Fit and athletic. 

Directors purpose - They are dressed up for the audience, are being treated like chess pieces in the capitols game. They are going to die the outfits are just for the audience, making it into a pageant rather than a survival game. 

Other technique - Silence, hearing the loud banging of the countdown, More intense and exagerated excitement and fear of what will happen. Build tension and suspence to make the audience focus on how the tributes are feeling. 

 

 

Music/Colour/Lighting - Volenteer as tribute scene

Music - Minor key, Starts when peeta gets reaped, tempo - slow, dynamics - Starts quiet but gradually get lourder to build intensity, mood - tension, morose 

Lighting - Bright full ligting indicating an open space, natural, Cold. Mood created - sad, depressed

Facial Expressions - Dull, bland and sad, matching the modd given off by the lighting and colour 

Colour - Dull, Grey, bland worn, pallette - grey, white, blue, washed out. Atmousphere - despair, sorry for the people, poverty, run down. 

Angles, Movements + shots

 Brainstorm - 

The Reaping scene - 

• Katniss volenteers as tribute in place of her sister prim who was reaped as a victor. 
• The children/parents of the district give her the 3 finger solute as a simbol of respect for katniss.
• Peeta is chosen as the male tribute. 

Key themes shown - 

• Hope and rebellion (3 finger solute- it is a sign of respect for katniss from the people of her district. First volenteer in the district, means she is a symbol of hope for a district with only one victor, a symbol of rebellion because she becasue she steps in for her sister (A weaker character) when nobody else would. 
• Rich vs Poor Symbol of rich = Effie Trinket, Extreme Makeup, excesive wig, hat, overly colourful and flashy outfit, proper accent. Technology = Use of blood identifiers/scanners, projectors on big screens. Symbol of poverty = Chilrens outfits for reaping are the best clothes, dresses, shirts collared, boys - shorts or pants, coloures have faded from overuse and washing. The village is wooden and falling apart around them, the goverment building is well built stone.

Angles and shots in the reaping scene - 

• Shallow focus/Sharp focus. (Members of dictric 12 are in shallow focus when prim is reaped, Prim and katniss are in sharp focus so the veiwers attention is drawn to those characters.) 
• Close up (Prim rose when reaped - terror, shock, nervous. Effie Trinket - Show that she is calm, happy, confedent, excited, Lips, Excesive makeup. Katniss Everdeen - Panic when prim is reaped, Shock when she stands with effie and it sinks in what she has done. Peeta Mellark - Shock, Disbelief, panic.)
• Over the Sholder 
• High angle 
• Low angles 
• Dutch tilt 
• Wide shot 
• Medium close-up 
• Extreme Close up

Viewer feels - 

Sorry for the tributes - Primrose as it was her first time and she is so young - katniss as it was a selfless act for her sister. 

Anger towards the capitol for the reaping - 

We consider effie as annoying, happy, stuck up, cocky, clueless 

Director purpose - 

Viewers feel invested in their suffereing an their journey throughout the story. 

Want us to choose katniss's side, and be angry at capitol and judge their later decisions 

See effie as anoying as she is an ambassador for the capitol (depicted as a symbol of people in the capitol) 

The Hungergames Quote Hunting

 Quote Hunting - 

What am I learning? 

Using the film "The hunger games" I am learning to hunt down quotes said in the film (Not the book) that reflect the main themes and ideas in a film. 

How does this work show my learning? 

This work shows my learning by highlighting different quotes and then underneath explaining how they represent a main theme in the film, I also added photos of the scene in which the quote was said to show people where in the movie the quote was said. 

What am I wondering as a result? 

I wonder if all films use these techniques and if I can now identify different themes and quotes in every film to gain a deeper meaning of the film. 

(Text in case the words seem blurry on poster) 

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

President snow,  currently the most powerful individual in Panem is explaining to senica, the gamekeeper about how they use the games to manipulate the district's emotions in order to keep the power they have over them. When he says hope is the only thing stronger than fear, he puts that into play in the games by giving the districts singular winner giving the districts and the tributes hope that they will survive and bring "honour" to their district. That small sip of hope makes the games effective but contained as said in the quote "a lot of hope is dangerous." meaning that if too much hope is spread in the districts it will breed into rebellion and the fall of the capitol and their power over panem.  (STRUGGLE FOR POWER)

Haymitch: "Give them something to root for!"Seneca Crane: "What?"Haymitch Abernathy: "Young love."

During the middle of the games, senica is slowly losing his grasp over the districts as Katniss has become a symbol of hope for the districts, Senica is desperate to contain the hope and is talking with Haymitch when he proposes the idea of giving them a distraction from Katniss and her small hints of rebellion in the games by introducing the idea of young love between Peta and katniss to get people to root for their tragic yet heartwarming love story instead of her defiant acts against the capitol. The whole point of this scheme was to paint a different image of katniss from a solo symbol of hope for the districts, to a soft sweetheart tragically in love with another victor.  (HOPE AND REBELLION) 

Peeta: "You definitely smell better than I do."Caesar: "Well I've lived here longer."

The interviews in the film was a way for the victors to present themselves to the capitol to gain the favor of individuals and therefore gain sponsors, When peeta's turn to speak with caesar came near the beginning of their conversation he compared how caesar smelt better, and cleaner than him, caesar replied saying its because he had lived in the capitol longer, implying that people in the capitol have more access to proper hygiene and the privilege of choosing your scent with perfumes,. Peeta however, an individual from district 12 one of the poorest districts dure to the distance from the capitol and the importance of their work, he didn't have the privilege of proper hygiene or a clean and safe place to live. To sum up the meaning behind the quote, caesar is stating that he smells better because he has lived in a secure, Hygenic place for longer than someone like peeta who originates from district 12 and only  just arrived in the capitol. 

 

 

Themes and Ideas (ENG)

 Themes and ideas -

Rich vs poor - Some people have more 

- Money - Privelleges - Respect -Food -Variety -Luxury -Cleanwater -Proper housing -technology -Good health(medicines) -Fashion/clothing -Transport -Fewer responsibilities -protection/security -

Hope + Rebellion - Hope breeds rebellion, if you have hope you have the motivation to rebel. 

- HOPE The belief that something will get better - REBELLION to fight against something in order to make the change to be better.  (Protest , Uprise, usually against the image of power) 

Symbols of hope - Katniss, Melodic motive, Mockingjay, three-finger salute, two victors, 

Struggle for power - with privilege comes power. 

The capitol has power (President snow) Katniss is becoming a threat to snow as he is loosening the reins of snows power over panem - People look up to katniss for guidance giving her more power, katniss 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." - president snow

FEAR - People are afraid of rebelling, because of the consequences of an uprising in the past.  When the rebellion was lost to the capitol they were punished with the hunger games and district 13 the leaders of the protest was destroyed. 

LITTLE HOPE - Surviving by becoming the victor, being bathed in riches and being presented with the privilage of a normal life. 

DANGEROUS HOPE - That all victors will join together and win as one, therfore the districts deserve to be treated better 

Power of propaganda - Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view. - Message being told, It's not worth rebelling, capitol is strongest, the structure of Panem under the capitols control brings peace and balance. 

LANGUAGED USED - "peacekeepers" Someone who keeps the peace - soldiers who brutally/violently force structure in society. look like stormtroopers to mark them as a nameless soldiers who can't take blame. 

"Victor" Someone who wins, becomes respected, and is wealthy and lucky - A violent murderer who was living off the lives of 23 other people. Live with trauma and guilt. 

"Fallen" 

Propaganda - People who die in the games Takes the brutal reality of the situation (Paints a softer picture of people falling rather than being brutally murdered in the unnecessary games.) It suggests something more peaceful rather than violent. 

Reality - Teenagers/Children who have been killed or murdered/ Very violent 

"Tribute" 

Propaganda - Two brave young people, An honor to be selected as a tribute - and honor to die, 

Reality - Is a sacrifice and a punishment to the districts for rebelling.

Rich vs Poor - People in the capitol vs people in the districts - Compare opening shot in 12 vs peta looking out the window of the capitol - 

District 12 - Poor, Houses are made of wood and scraps (Not in good condition), Very little food available *See old man picking at a bone*, 1 pair of good clothing for the reaping, Other clother are worn, faded, grey and black clothing as easier to look cleaner aka to not show coal dust, 

Capitol - Houses are large and modern design, have metal and materials available for housing. Food - have a variety of food available to choose from - more than enough excess, Clothing is colourful, extravagant and fashionable there is excess. 

Hope + Rebellion - Covo between president snow + senica craine - a little hope quote, Convo between Hamich and senica = give them something to root for *Distract them* aka young love 

Struggle for power - Katniss + Peta's double suicide attempt in the arena with berries. The death of rue = Riot in district 11 

Power of propaganda - Subtle. Hunger games film at the beginning of reaping.

"I volunteer as tribute" - 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PJ3Du_zDc

• Katniss volunteers as tribute for her sister prim, the peacekeepers let go and let her talk to her sister. 
• Effie has bright colors and extreme wigs and makeup whereas katniss has faded clothes and brown hair 
• Everyone solutes to katniss showing rebellion and hope.