Workshop 2: Angles, Movement & Shots | English

Brainstorm

  - The Reaping Scene

• Katniss volunteers as a tribute when her sister was chosen.
• The children/parents of the district giving the three-finger salute. 
• Peeta is chosen as the other tribute. 

Hope and Rebellion 

• 3 Fingered Salute
  - it's 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 when no one else would. 

Rich vs Poor  

⟶ Symbol - Effie Trinket - extreme, make-up, wig, hat, overly colourful and flashy outfit, proper accent. 

• Technology - Use of blood readers/scanners, projectors. 
• District 12 
  - Children's outfits for reaping are their 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. '

Angles

• Close-Up - Faces 
• Primrose when 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.
• Peeta - fear, panic, shock.
• Shallows 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 Feel 

• Sorry for tributes 
• Primrose - it was her first she has been reaped.
• Katniss - she volunteered, a selfless 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 ew judge them and their decisions later. 
• Effie is depicted as a symbol of people in the District who are clueless - don't see the suffering

Music 

• Starts as we move to pick the boys.
• Minor key, tempo - slower, dynamic.
• Starts quiet 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, rundown 

Facial expressions are dull, bland and sad matching the lighting and colour.