Angles, Movements + Shots

 Workshop 2: Angles, Movements, Shots 

Brainstorm

"The Reaping Scene"

• Katniss volunteers as tribute when her sister is chosen.
• The children/parents of the district give her the 3 finger salute
• Peeta Mellark is chosen as the male tribute.

Hope & Rebellion

• 3 finger salute
• It is a sign of respect for Katniss from the people of her 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 weaker character) when she is reaped.

Rich vs Poor

Symbol

Effie Trinket 
• Extreme Make-Up • Hat & Wig • Overly Colourful • Flashy Outfit • Speaks in a "proper" accent
Technology
• Use of blood readers/scanners • Projectors • Microphone

Poverty

District 12
• Children's outfits for reaping are the best clothes, dresses, shirts - collared boys - shorts or pants, colours of their clothes are very faded from washes and reusing.
• The village is falling down around them

Angle Shots

• Close-Ups
Primrose Everdeen - when she is reaped - terror, fear
Effie Trinket - joyful, confident, excited - close up of lips when reading names
Peeta Mellark - fear, panic, shock
Katniss Everdeen - nervous, panic, fear, shock - Panic when Prim is reaped, Shock when she is standing with Effie

• Shallow Focus
The people in the background are in shallow focus when Prim & Katniss hug. This forces the viewer to watch the characters in focus.

VIewer Feels

• sorry for the tributes 
- primrose, it was her first time
- katniss - she volunteered, self-less act

• Anger towards The Capitol for the reaping
• We consider Effie is annoying, happy, stuck-up, clueless

Directors Purpose

• need to be invested in their journey/suffering
• need to be angry at Capitol so that we judge them & their decisions later
• Effie is depicted (shown to be) as a symbol of people in the District, they are clueless - don't see the suffering

Music, Lighting, Colour

[Music]

Starts as we move to picking the boys
Minor key, tempo; slower, dynamic, starts quietly then gets louder to build intensity, mood; tension, morose

[Lighting]

bright, grey, natural, cold lighting, bright, mood; sad, depressed

[Colour]

cold, colour palette; white, grey, blue, faded, washed out
atmosphere - despair, sorry for the people, poverty, run-down,  

[Extra - Facial Expressions]

facial expressions are dull, bland, sad, matching the lighting colour