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Monday, 8 June 2020

Hunger Games Notes

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's
    nothing you can do


Propaganda: 
So people from the capital believe in the entertainment 


Key Vocab:
  • Honor
  • Glory
  • Eliminated
  • Peacekeepers


Rich (Capital) 
Poor (District 12)
The amount of food
People were starving 
Bright colours 
Dull colours
Costuming extravagant
Costuming-Wearing only ‘Best’ type stereotypes 
Modern architecture
Small and sickly 
Everything is controlled
Don't stand a chance
Clean
Old farm houses/shacks
Fit and healthy 
Old, dirty and in need of repair
Children get toys like swords
Rundown

One good building for control

Materials mostly wood


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
\\\
  • 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

Katniss
  • Tough
  • Keeps emotions well hidden
  • Protective of people she loves
  • Grew up too fast
  • Impulsive
  • Rebellious
  • Introverted
Peeta
  • Soft
  • Kind
  • Selfless
  • Gullible
  • Physically Strong
  • Likeable
  • Creative/artistic
Haymitch
  • Alcoholic 
  • Trauma and stress
  • Hopeless
  • Intelligent he understands that this is a TV show
  • Agile
  • Very Honest
  • Strategic 
  • Cunning
  • Socially aware
Effie
  • Calm about the Hunger Games 
  • Oblivious of the reality
  • Courier Driven
  • Thinks of tributes as disposables
  • Status Driven

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