Opening Scene:
Music: Slow(Timbre)
Minor tone: often means something bad is happening or about to happen.
Silence: grabs attention
Camera Shots:
Mid shots - to show face and body language
Close-up - of Katniss and Prim to show emotion
Wide view - see setting, get more information at once
Extreme close ups - Focused on specific information, example the signs saying “Danger”.
Tracking shot - showed how her surroundings changed, that she was going somewhere
Shaky camera - To make it more realistic,unsettling, as if it’s running with her makes sense for the scene
Dialog:
Crane and Caesar - celebration, “knitting people together”. Cranes style of game making makes Prim cry. Prim dreamed it was her selected.
Katniss says “It’s your first time you won’t get picked”. -Foreshadowing
Colour and lighting:
The interview - Saturated light, very bright, neon colours, very artificial, cold light to it.
District 12- Dull, bland, natural,dark,cold light as well
Music:
Capital video- major - saying it was good
- War in the past was worse
Rest of music - minor - Kids are terrified
Dialog -
- Reading out the names
- Calm at first, then screaming “ I volunteer as tribute” - sister bond
- District 12 first volunteer
Effie - surprised - volunteer makes her feel better- could get promotion
Excited - entertainment
Calm - Doesn’t have to sacrifice.
Camera Shots:
Close ups -
Effie - about to read out names
Katniss' reaction to Prim’s name
See her makeup, how she’s different to everyone else
Effie is rich
Medium range
- Effie takes Katniss and Peeta away
- When Katniss is in the crowd
Long/wide shot
- Effie looking out
- To see the mass of people
Panning - When people show respect and lift
their fingers for her
POV
- Katniss looking for prim
- When giving sign of respect
- Watching capital’s film
- When katniss walks up stairs - extra shaky to show her fear
Flashback
- Memory of Peeta and the bread
- Show she knows him
- He helps her
Propaganda:
What is it? *Information that gives a bias opinion*
- Post truth
Where do we see it?
- Video from the capital
- The games it self is propaganda *all the tributes*
- It's not a bad thing
- If you win you will be a hero to your district
- Both boys and girls in the film were fit, healthy and athletic
How they remember their past
- Don’t give detail why there was a revolt
- Played every year - Gale gets mocked
- Effie recites
- Gale mocks it
Real Message
- You have fought back once and lost, now we can kill your children and there'snothing you can do
Propaganda:
So people from the capital believe in the entertainment
Key Vocab:
- Honor
- Glory
- Eliminated
- Peacekeepers
Hope:
Scene with president Snow
Dialogue:
- Only thing stronger than fear
- Link to propaganda- false sense of hope that at least one will live
- Just killing everyone would cause resentment
- Capital don’t want to kill everyone they need them
- Hope is only effective if contained
Camera Shots:
Mid
- Between Crane and Snow talking
- To show expression and body language
POV
- President Snow & Crane showing their deep conversation
Close Up
- Of Crane pruning the rose
- Metaphor for his ‘perfect society’ for control
Rue's Death
Music:
- Sad minor
- Medium timbre
- Progress to being more powerful
- More hopeful
Camera Shots:
Extreme close up
- Of flowers
- Flower ring showed she really cared for Rue
- Showing that the games will not change her
POV/High Angle
- Showing that she is aware that she is being watched
Rebeling
Music
- Up tempo
- More Aggression/emotional
Camera Shots
Wide
- To show all the people
Birdseye View
- Drone coming blowing papers
- Plane landing effect
- Papers were important
- Shows technology
- Capital is bigger and strong
Cutting/Shaky Camera
- Shots of shaky camera
- Creates tension
- Showed the chaos
- Camera became for steady as Capital became more in control
Close Up
- Of hands to show that they are united
- Really important
- Link to symbol to black lives matter movement
Lighting
- At the start of the acne it was day
- At the end it was night
- Showing fighting went on for hours
Rebellion
Music:
- Sad
- Minor
- Powerful
- Enhance the drama
- No lyrics- to emphasise her words
- Adds to the depth of the scene
Dialogue:
- Willing to die together
- Katniss rebelling against the propaganda of “there has to be a victor”
- Voice over urgently saying “STOP” Katniss has beaten them at their own game
- First capital beaten at their own game
- 1st have 2 victors
- She embarrassed the capital
Camera Shots
Close up
- See both Peeta and Katniss reaction
- Capital citizen and cane’s reaction- surprised
- Overhead - when the becoming voice came
- Remind the game marks had been in control until this point
Extreme Close-up
- Berries
- They were the thing that changed everything
Rich Vs Poor
Poor:
Close-up
- Of guy eating all the meat off the bone
- Emphasises that food is very precious
- That people are starving
- Cats and animals being malnourished
- Really dirty everywhere
- Flies everywhere
- Cleaning is not a priority
- Mud everywhere
Extreme Close-up
- Fence not on, don’t have enough resources and money to power it
Costuming and Setting
- Looked like they are in the past
- Wooden houses
- Old and run down
- Minors were going into the mine but were still covered in soot
Rich:
Establishing shots
Of the capital
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- See the buildings, the grandeur
- Everything was modern
- Saw technology
- White, clean, crisp, tidy, brand new
- Costuming- Fashion and makeup really extravagant
- Close up - to see lady with big gold eye lashes
- The pink poodle
- Gives huge contrast to lives in the distract
- Fashion is a status thing here- they want the next best thing- represents wealth
- Capital clothing is for looks- Artificial material bright
- Districts clothing is for practicality -more natural
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