Atmosphere - feeling / mood set in the scence
Mood - the way we feel / emotional response
Location - area it is eet
1. District 12
What is happening - Kaqtnessv is jogging through thwe district
Types of colour / lighting - cold colours, more grey undertone
- dull colours - nothing stands out - blue / grey shades natural colours, natural colours - palette - greens, browns, grey, black
- lighting - cold, dull, natural
Viewer effect (feel) - not welcoming, unpleasent, run down, dirty, poor.
Director Purpose - shows how unpleasent it is to live in the districts,
2. The Capitol
What is happening - The citizens of the Capitol are awaiting the arrival of the tributes.
Types of colour / lighting - colours - cold - white undertones
- bright / artifical
- lighting - cold (white) artifical, bright
- palette - setting - whites / metalics costumns - bright, vibrant, colourful.
Viewer effect (feel) - these people are privelledged, they are celebrating, they are more advanced.
Directors purpose - makes us sympathise with the tributes - they have lots and the districs have none, dont like them because they seem over the top & arragant.
Other Techniques - costume - rich, extragant, flounting, over the top.
Settings - rich, modern, technologically advanced, clean, new.
3. The Control Room
What is happening - people are manipulating the arena via computer.
Types of colour / lighting - colour palette - blue / white / dark grey / clinical
colour - cold (blue/white) bright-especially white shirts, artifical lighting / colour-cyan / holographic
Viewer effect (feel) - makes us feel they are smart but unsafe, scientific
Directors Purpose - makes us feel like they are mindless drones, detached from reality
Other Techniques - costume - white lab coats-feels like an experiment.
Settings - no clutter, lots of tech, only focused on the one job.
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 warn once a year, wornout 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 makes 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 extragant!
- colourful, vibrant.
- Accesories - 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, privelleged, relaxed, we don't like them - attitude of entittlement, clueless.
Director Purpose - shows themes of imbalance of power + rich vs poor,
Other techniques - setting is crowded, people are happy, buildings are modern, big well kept. Shows that Capitol is privelleged.
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 practicle, light weight.
- 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.
What is happening in this clip
The Reaping Scene:
- Katniss volunteers as tribute when her sister is chosen.
- Teh children / parents of the district give her the 3 fingure salute.
- Peeta is chosen as the male tribute.
What themes does it link to:
Hope and Rebellion - 3 finger slaute - it is a sign of respect for Katness from the people of her district.
- Katniss is a symbol oif 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 flashy outfit, proper acdent.
- Technology use of blood readers / scanners, projectors.
Poverty - District 12 - Children outfits for reaper are there best clothes, dresses, shirts - collared, boys - shorts or pants, colours of clothes are very faded from washes and reusing.
- The village is falling down around them.
Angles / shots used:
Close-Ups- faces - Primrose when is reaped - terror, fear
- Effie - Joyful, confident, excited - close of lips when reading names.
- Katniss - Panic when Prim is reaped, shock when she stands with Effie.
- Peeta - fear, panic, shock.
Shallow Focus - The people in the background are in shallow focus when Prim and Katness hug. This forces the viewer to watch the character in focus.
How does the viewer feel?
Viewer feels - Sorry for the tributes - Primrose - it was her first time
- Katniss - she volunteered - selfless act.
- Anger towards the Capitol for the reaping.
- We consider Effie is annoying, happy, stuck-up, clueless.
Why did the directer do this?
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 - do't see the suffering.
Music / Lighting / Colour:
Music - Starts as we move to picking the boys minor key, tempo - shower, dynamic, starts quiet then gets louder to build intesity, 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, povert, run down.
Facial expression are dull, bland + sad matching the lighting + colour.
Rich vs Poor - Some people have more money - Capitol
- Money - Privelleges / Respect
- Food - variety - Resources
- Proper housing - Technology
- Medicines - Clothing / Makeup
- Transport - Childhoods
Hope + Rebellion - Hope is the belief that something will get better.
Rebellion - To fight against something, protest, uprise, usually against government.
Symbols of Hope - Katness, Melodic, Mocking, Jay, 3 finger salutte.
Struggle for Power - Currently the Capitol has power - President Snow.
- Katness becomes a rival for powerr - people look up to her for guidance, becomes a threat because Snow sees her as one.
'Hope, it is the 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 - Information, especially of a based or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or POV.
Messages being told - H's not worth rebelling.
- The Capitol is the strongest.
- Things are good the way they are.
What am I learning?
- In English I am learning to understand the language of film and camera techniques.
How does this work show my learning?
- The visual dictionary shows that I understand what each camera techniques is and what they do in film.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
- I am wondering if there are many other camera techniques that I dont know about that I should know and understand what they do in film/
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- In this quote Hitler was explaining that the Jewish youth was spying on a unsuspicious German girl and they plan to seduce. Hitler was also explaining that they want to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own peoples.
