Brainstorm
What's Happening...
Reaping scene
- 2 tributes selected to compete in the Hunger Games.
-Best dressed.
Described Costumes
Light colours, natural tones, old fashioned, simple.
-Boys - dress shirts, pants or shorts.
Formal / Sunday best
-Girls - Hair tidy, dresses or skirts.
-Colours- Cold, clean, faded - washed a lot.
-Older clothes mended.
Effect on the viewer
-Think they are poor because clothes are outdated.
-Peacekeepers / Effie in new clean outfits.
-Think it is a bad living - emotionless, all the colour has been drained.
Directors Purpose
Show the comparison/juxtaposition of the district and the capital.
-Shows theme 'Rich vs Poor' because the district doesn't have access to resources like-new clothing.
Other Techniques
Make-up- style = status, Effies eyelashes are long + pink and her face is white. The district has no make-up - no access or need for it.
What's Happening...
In the Capitol, Katniss and Peeta are just getting off the train, and they have never been there before.
Describe Costumes
Bright, colourful, neon, extravagant, vibrant, oversized.
Looks expensive and more fancy than casual.
Over the top - excessive, more than needed to be practical.
Headpieces that match outfits, wigs.
Both genders over the top outfits/wigs/make-up.
Effect on the viewer
Think they are rich /greed - have more than us.
Fashion is shocking/scary to viewer - in your face.
Show us how shocked/different things are for Katniss and Peeta.
Directors Purpose
Again shows us theme 'Rich vs Poor' - the people in Capitol live in extreme luxury compared to the poverty of district 12.
People in the Capitol have everything
Make-up over the top - caked on so we know they have lots of it. Men/woman are wearing it.
Setting - Concrete, metal, glass, crisp, futuristic, modern, technologically advanced.
Describe Costumes
Practical - Suitable for fishing.
Jackets, boots, shirts, long pants.
Colours that will match the surrounding - help them hide.
Tells us about the arena climate.
Not going far due to not much.
Effect on the viewer
Feels like they are dressed for war/hunting - all dressed the same uniform.
All look the same - everyone has the same advantage.
Makes us less emotionally attached.
Directors Purpose
Theme
Rich vs Poor - Everyone is literally equal so personal skills become important.
Struggle for Power - Tributes are under the power of the Capitol, they have no freedom/free will at this point.
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Teachers Paragraph Example;
In the reaping scene, the costuming is used effectively to show the theme "Rich vs Poor." For example, the potential tributes are dressed informal shirts, skirts and trousers. Their clothes are well-worn, weathered and dull. This makes us understand the people in District 12 are poor because their best clothes are old and faded compared to the Capitol representative Euphemia "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 makeup as shown by Effie. She has lots of make-up on including long pink eyelashes, 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 the district 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.
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Teachers Paragraph Example;
In the reaping scene, the costuming is used effectively to show the theme "Rich vs Poor." For example, the potential tributes are dressed informal shirts, skirts and trousers. Their clothes are well-worn, weathered and dull. This makes us understand the people in District 12 are poor because their best clothes are old and faded compared to the Capitol representative Euphemia "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 makeup as shown by Effie. She has lots of make-up on including long pink eyelashes, 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 the district 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.
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