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Thinks they are poor - because clothes are outdated 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.