Brainstorm - English

Brainstorm:

What is happening:

Reaping scene 2 - tributes selected to computer in hunger games 

- best dressed 

- in the capital, Katniss & peeta just getting off the train, have never been there before. 

- in the arena of the hunger games 

Describe Costumes:

Light colours, natural tones, old fashion, simple, 

Bright, colourful, neon, extravagant, vibrant, oversized 

- look most expensive and more fancy than casual 

- over the top excessive, more than needed to be practical

- hair pieces to match wigs 

- both genders over the top outfits/wigs/makeup 

- practical - suitable for fighting

- jackets, boots, shirts, long pants, 

- colours that will match the surroundings and help them hide 

- tells us about the climate in the arena 

- not going far as much  

- Boys:

Dros shirts, pants or shorts

- Girls:

hair tidy, dresses, or skirts.

Colours:

Cold, clean, faded - washed and worn a lot, older clothes getting mended.

Effect on viewer/Think/feel:

Thinks they are poor - because clothes are outdated 

- peacekeeper/Effie in new clean outfits 

- think it is bad living - emotionless, all the colour has been drained,

- think they are rich/greed 

- fashion is shocking/scary to the viewers in your face

- shows us how shocked/different things are for katniss and peeta  

- feel like they are dressed for war/hunting - all dressed same uniform 

- all look the same everyone has the same advantage. 

- makes us less emotionally attached to individuals 

Director purpose: 

-Show the comparison/juxtaposition of the district to the capital

- Shows theme rich vs poor because district doesn't have access to resources like new clothing 

- again shows us theme rich vs poor the people in the capital live in extreme luxury compared to the poverty of district 12

- people in the capital have everything  

Other techniques:

- make up over the top caked on so we know they have lots of men/women both

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Make up - Style = status, Effies eye lashes are long + pink and her 

face is white. the district has no make up no access or need for it  

Setting:

concrete, metal, glass, clean, crisp, futuristic, technologically advanced 

Reaping scene:

In the reaping, scene, costume is used effectively to show the theme "Rich vs Poor". For example, the potential tributes are dressed in formal shirts, skirts and trousers. their clothes are well-worn, weathered and dull. This make us understand the people in District 12 are poor because their best clothes are old and faded compared to the Capitol Representative Effie Trinket. This is done to show the juxtaposition between the extreme wealth of the Capitol and the poverty of those in District 12. This worked well with the use of make-up as shown by Effie. She has lots of make-up on including long pink eyelashes on, an extremely white foundation and pink and gold lips. This tells the viewer that she is wealthy because she can afford extravagant make-up when those in District 12 can barely afford clothes. This aspect can be compared to the scene where the tributes arrive off the train in the Capitol. here we see luxury and excess wealth in the costumes of the Capitol citizens compared to the rags worn by Peeta and Katniss.    

 

Science Experiment

AIM - To observe a neutralisation  

Method - First put a drop of Acid in a test tube with a drop of base and add some universal indicator 

add more drops of acid base and universal in to a test tube to make different colours. 

Results - Universal indicator With Acid and base would either turn red, blue or brown.

Discussion - The Acid with universal indicator went red because their was more acid than base in the test tube and the base went blue because their was more base then acid.

 

Conclusion - Our experiment went alright we made a green blue and red. 

Opening scene - English

Opening scene 

Music= Slow (timbre), Sad (minor), Medium timbre, up tempo, more aggressive/emotional

capitol video - major rest of music - minor - kids are terrified, sad - minor, powerful, enhanced the drama, no lyrics, emphasise her words, adds to the depth of the scene,

Minor tone= often means something bad is happening or about to happen 

silence = grabs attention 

Progress - to being more powerful

Camera shots-

Mid shots to show face and body language, to show expression  

Effie takes Katniss and peeta away when Katniss is in the crowd, between crane and president snow talking.

Close up - of Katniss and prim, to show emotions 

Katniss´s reaction to Prims name

-Effies about to read names

see her make up different to everyone else

- see both Peeta and Katniss reaction, capital citizen and crane´s reaction - surprise

Over head when the booming voice came remind the game makers had been in control until this point

Wide view - se setting, get more information at once, to show the people

Effie looking out

- to see the mass of the people

Over head - drone coming blowing papers - plane was landing, Shows technology capital, is bigger and stronger, creates te

Lighting -

Cutting shots of shaky camera

Panning -  when people show respect and lift there 3 fingers

POV - Katniss looking for prim, When giving sign of respect, Watching capitols film, katniss walking up the stairs, p - snow & crane showing their deep conversation

Flashback - memory of peta and the bread show how she knows him he helps he

High angle - Showing that she is aware that she is being watched

Extreme close ups - focus on specific information ex the signs says danger, extreme close up of flowers

they were the thing that changed everything 5

Close-up - of rose, pruning, metaphor for his perfect society  

Tracking shot - showed her surroundings changed that she was going somewhere

Shaky camera - more realistic, unsettling, as if its running with her, makes sense for the scene= during district 12 opening

dialogue - crane & Caesar = celebration  knitting people `together´ cranes style of game make Prim cry e scream Prim dreams if was her selected Katniss says its your first time you wont get picked.

reading out the names, calm at first, then screaming - sister bond

Showing she cared about rue

willing to die together, Katniss rebelling against the propaganda of their has to be a winner,

voice over urgently saying stop Katniss has beaten them at their own game,

she embarrassed the capital.

first capital beaten at their own game, 1st time 2 victors.

showing that the games will not change her

- district 12 first volunteer, 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 dont want to kill, everyone, they need them

- hope is only effective if contained

Effie - surprised volunteer make her fell better - could get a promotion

- excited entertained

- calm dosent have to sacrifice

Colour and lighting - the interview - saturated colours, very bright, neon, very artificial cold light 

District 12 - dull colours, bland, natural colours, dark light, cold light. 

Propaganda

What is it - Information that gives a bias opinion

Where do we see it - Video from the capitol, the games it self is propaganda - all the tributes.

Real message - You have fought back once and lost now we can kill your children and and there is nothing you can do.

Propaganda message

-Its not a bad thing

-if you win you will be be a hero

to your district.

-The boy and girl in the film

-Big, strong, healthy, fit,

-How they remember their past

-Don`t give detail why their was a revolt

-Played every year - Gale mocks it

-Effie recites

So people from the capital believe in the entertainment

Key Vocab 

Honor  glory

Eliminated Peacekeeper

Rich (capital) 

Amount of food, Bright colours, Costuming - extravagant, Modern architecture, Everything is controlled in the capital, clean, materials - Stone, marble, metal.

Poor (district 12)

~People were starving

~Natural and dull colours

~Costuming wearing best types stereotypes

~Small and sickly Dont have a chance in the hunger games

~Old farm houses/shacks, Need repair, dirty 

~One good building for filming control

~materials mostly wood  

Lighting - At start of scene it was day at the end it was night - shows they were fighting for hours

Poor VS Rich

Poor:

- Close up of guy eating everything he can 

- food is precious people were starving 

- cat was malnourished 

- really dirty - mud everywhere

extreme close up of - electric fence sign 

- fence not on, dont have enough resources and money to power it 

- costume and setting - looked like they are in the past

- wooden, old/run down 

- miners were going into the mine but still were covered in soot 

Rich:

- establishing shot - of the capital

- see the buildings, the grandur

- everything was modern

- saw technology

- white/clean/crisp

- Fashion and make up is extravagant

- close up - to dee lady with big gold eye lashes

- the pink dog 

- gives huge contrast to live in the districts  

- fashion is a status thing here - they want 

- the next best thing - represents wealth 

- capital clothing is for looks - artificial material bright  

- district clothing is for practicality - more natural

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