Workshop 3: Costumes - English

The Reaping Scene - District 12

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

Costumes used:

• Boy - Shirts - buttoned/collars, short, pants, white, colourless, faded, dull, overwashed
• Girls - Dresses, shirts & skirt
• Best clothes, probably only worn once a year, worn-out, colourless, faded

Affect on Viewer:

• We feel for the people, they seem powerless, they live in poor conditions

Directors Purpose:

• Shows us how bad their conditions are, wants us to seem them as the weak, hopeless

Techniques add to effect:

• High Angle - with the faded colours makes them seem vulnerable, helpless.

Other techniques - High angle with the faded colours makes them seek weakly, vulnerable helpless

The Capitol- Arriving in the city

• Katniss & Peta have arrived by Train in the Capital
• The clothes are extravagant
• Over the top
• Colourful, vibrant
• accessories - has/earings/make-up/wig/shoes/bags/dogs
• New - looks like only worn once, Fashionable
• Access to good quality fabrics, pattern

Affect on Viewer

• Makes them seen of higher ranking, privileged, relaxed, we don't like them, attitude

Director purpose - Shows them of imbalance of power & rich vs poor

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

The countdown

• The tributes have just arrived in the area and are waiting to start the games

Costumes used:

•  survival gear, browns, black, dark colours, jacket, pants, T-shirts, designed to look good, to be practical, lightweight.

Affect on View

• The tributes look prepared, fit, athletic

Director Purpose:

• They are going to die, the outfits are just for the audience (the capitols)  makes it seen more pagent like

Other techniques - silence worried, excited to see what happen, anxious, build town, makes the audience focus.

MRS GREN - Blobfish | Science

 

Movement - The blobfish primarily floats around and swallows crustaceans as they pass by.

Respiration - The blobfish's respiratory system uses a process called countercurrent flow to obtain oxygen because it does not have lungs. Countercurrent flow occurs when the water and blood within the body of the fish go in opposite directions across the gills to diffuse as much oxygen into the blood as possible.

Sensitivity - Blobfish has no sensitivity and it is not sensitive to things that can affect (influence) it because ultimately blobfish are just slightly sentient lumps of FAT.

Growth - The blobfish, whose scientific name is Psychrolutes Marcus, grows to as much as a foot long and contains almost no muscle at all. With no muscle, the fish are not edible to humans, as you would be eating mostly a big blob of gelatin.

Reproduction - The blobfish opens its big mouth, and food filters on through. The fish reproduce by laying thousands of eggs in nests. Several females often nest near one another, and they hover over their eggs until they hatch.

Excretion - The blobfish has a very small digestive system compared to most species of fish; however, the process of breaking down food in the body is very similar. Finally, the food is excreted through the anus at the bottom of the fish.

Nutrition - Their diet consists of small crustaceans like crabs, sea urchins, and shellfish. These goodies are sucked into the blobfish's mouth as it floats along. Lacking both bones and teeth, they do not actively hunt.

Workshop 2: Angles, movements and shot - English

 Brainstorm

The Reaping Scene

• Katniss volunteers as tribute when her sister is chosen
• The children/parent of the district give her the 3 finger salute
• Peta is chosen as the male tribute

Hope and Rebellion: 3 finger salute - it's a sign of respect from the people of the 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 wether character) when she is reaped)

Rich vs Poor: Symbol Effie trinket - extreme makeup, makeup, wig hat, overly and flashy outfit, proper accent.

Technology - Use of blood readers/scanners projections.

Poverty -  District 12 - children's outfits for reaping are their best clothes, dresses, shorts - collared or pants, colors of clothes are very faded from washes and reusing.

              - The village is falling down around them

Close-ups - faces - primrose when is 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.

                 - Peta - fear, panic, shock

Shallow - Focus - the pope;e in the background are in shallow focus when film and katniss

                            - the focus the viewers to watch the character in focus.

Viewer feels - sorry for the tributes - primrose it was her first time

                                                        - Katniss volunteered - a selfless act.

- Orange towards the capitol for reaping

- We consider Effie is annoying happy, stuck up, clueless

Directors Purpose - need to be invested in their journey/suffering 

                             - need to be away at Capitol so that we judge them and their decision

                            - Effie is depicted as a symbol of people in the District, they are clueless - don't see                                            the suffering

Music - starts as we move to pick the bays minor key, tempo- slower, dynamically starts quietly then gets louder 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 Expression is dull, bland and sad matching the lightning and colour

               

                           

                                    

Themes & Ideas - English

Rich vs Poor - some people have more - Capitol
 - money                - Privileges / respect
 - food -variety      - resources
 - proper housing   - technology
 - medicines           - clothing / make-up
 - transport             - childhoods

Hope & Rebellion - 

hope is the belief that something will get better
- Rebellion - to fight against something, protest, surprise, usually against government
Symbols of Hope - Katniss, Melodic Motive, Mockingjay, 3 finger salutte

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 - 
information especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or view.
Messages being told - It's not worth rebelling - The Capitol is the strongest.

Peace keeper -

Propaganda - people to keep peace & help you

Reality - soldiers, violent, keep people in line.

Victor - 

Propaganda - glorious, someone who wins, wealthy, respected

Reality - Violent, to win 

Fallen -

Propaganda - people who die in the game takes away from the reality of the situation 

Reality - Teenagers who have been killed/murdered. violent 

Rich vs Poor - people in the Capital vs people in the Districts 

                      - Compare the opening shot in District 12 vs Peta looking out  the window of the capital

                      - District 12 - poor - house is run down wooden

                                          - food - very little, see old man picking bone*

                                          - clothing - 1 pair of good clothing, worn out, old, colours are faded, grey/black

Capital - house - large, concrete, metals, accent of gold/silver

            - food - variety of choices, don't have the same things

Hope + Rebellion - Covro President Snow & Senira + Senica Craine

                             - A little hope quite

                             

                             - Convo between Hamich & Senica

                             - Gives 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