Hunger Games - How are costumes used to enhance the story?

Brainstorm:
What is happening - Picture 1
- reaping scene - 2 tributes selected to compete in the Hunger Games.
- Best dressed.

Describe Costumes
- Light colours, neutral tones, old fashioned, simple.
- Boys - shirts shirts, pants or shorts.
- Both wear formal / Sunday best.
- Girls - hair tidy, dresses or skirts.
- Colour - cold, clean, faded - washed and worn a lot.
- Older clothes mended.

Effect on viewer
- Think they poor - because clothes are outdated - Peacekeepers / Effie in new clean outfits.
- Think it is a bad living - emotionless, all the colour has been drained.

Director Purpose
- Show the comparison / juxtaposition of the district and the capital.
- Shows theme 'Rich vs Poor' because district doesn't have access to resources like new clothing.

Other Techniques
- Make-up - style = status, Effies eye lashes are long and pink and her face is white. The district has no make-up-no access or need for it.

What is happening - Picture 2
- In the Capitol, Katniss and Peeta just getting off the train, have never been there before.

Describe Costumes
- Bright, colourful, neon, extravagant, vibrant, oversized.
- Look expensive and more fancy than casual.
- Over the top - excessive, more than needed to be practical.
- Head pieces to match, wigs.
- Both genders over the top outfits / wigs / make-up.

Effect on 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.

Director 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.

Other Techniques
- Make-up - over the top - caked on so we know they have lots. Men / Women wear it.
- Setting - concrete, metal, glass, clean, crisp, futuristic, technologically advance.

What is happening - Picture 3
- In the arena of the Hunger Games.

Describe Costumes
- Practical - suitable for fighting.
- Jackets, boots, shirts, long pants.
- Colours that will match surrounding - help them hide.
- Tells us about the arena climate.
- Not going far as not much.

Effect on viewer
- Feels like they are dressed for war / hunting - all dressed same uniform.
- All look same - every has the same advantage.
- Makes us less emotionally attached to individuals.

Director Purpose
- Rich vs Poor - every one is finally 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.

In the reaping scene, costume is used effectively to show the theme 'Rich vs Poor'. (e)For example, the potential tributes are dressed in formal shirts, skirts and trousers. Their clothes are well-worn, weathered and dull. (x)This make us understand the people in District 12 because their best clothes are old and faded compared to the Capitol representative Effie Trinket. (x)This is done t show juxtaposition between the extreme wealth of the Capitol and the poverty of those in District 12. (x)This worked well with the use of make-up 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 rags worn by Peeta and Katniss.

Hunger Games Setting Timeline

Metal and Oxygen

When a metal reacts with oxygen it produces a metal oxide.

Our aim in this experiment is to make a metal oxide and observe the difference in properties of the product compared to the reactants.

The equipment we used are a piece of magnesium, Bunsen burner, safety glasses, and metal scissor tongs.

Method:

1) Light your Bunsen burner. 2) Hold your piece of magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure you are holding onto the very tip of the magnesium. 3) Place the other end of the magnesium into the Bunsen flame (at the top of the blue flame). 4) When the magnesium begins to burn, do not look directly at it, as the light emitted can permanently damage your eyes.

Observation: When the magnesium got burned, it lighten up for a while and turned into ashes. That's what I saw.

Metal and Acid

When a metal reacts with an acid, the same types of products are always formed.

Our aim for this experiment is to show that hydrogen gas is produced when a metal reacts with acid. 

The equipment we used are Bunsen burner, a test tube, a boiling tube, wooden splint, a bottle of acid, a piece of metal (Magnesium), and safety glasses.

Method: 1) Light your Bunsen burner. 2) Add your sample of metal to your test tube. Add 2mL of acid. 3) Carefully invert the boiling tube above the test tube containing the metal and acid. 4) Hold the test tubes together for a few minutes, allowing time for the inverted boiling tube to fill with gas. 5) When you think the tube is full, your lab partner should light a wooden splint. 6) Carefully, but quickly, tilt the boiling tube full of gas upwards and insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.

Observation: As the magnesium reacted with the acid it released hydrogen gas going up stuck in the boiling tube that's upside down outside the test tube, then carefully and quickly burned that hydrogen gas , the boiling tube.

My First Solo Performance

What instrument am I playing and why?

Piano, because it's my favourite instrument of all instrument.

Which song have you chosen to perform and why?

Gurenge, it's an anime song and I love it :D

What type of assessment are you doing and why?

I will be doing the option 2 where I can record or play my favourite song.

Making Indicators

The aim in this experiment we did is to make acid-base indicators using everyday substances. 
Equipment we used:
Red Cabbage, tea, beetroot, turmeric, cranberry juice, a beaker, water tripod, Bunsen burner, gauze mat, acid(HCI), and base(NaOH).

At first, we chop the cabbage into small pieces until it have enough to fill 2 cups, then place the cabbage in a large beaker and add water to cover the cabbage. Boil over a Bunsen burner for at least ten minutes for the colour to leach out of the cabbage. filter out the plant material to obtain a red-purple-bluish coloured liquid. This liquid is about pH 7. (The exact colour you get depends on the pH of the water.) Place in a small beaker and leave to one side, repeat this method for the beetroot. For the tea, put 100 ml of water into a beaker and boil. Turn off the Bunsen burner and put three tea bags in the beaker. Remove the tea bags when the tea is very strong. Place in a small beaker and leave to one side. For the cranberry juice, pour into a beaker and leave to one side. For the turmeric Mix 1 teaspoon turmeric in 100 mL cup of alcohol. Place in a small beaker and leave to one side.

The results:

Neutralisation

We did an experiment neutralisation meaning adding the right amount of acid and base together, our aim was to mix together acid and base and somehow turn it into colour green.

What we have to do to create a colour green is to balance or add the right amount of acid and base (Hydroxide). 
What I did first is to add a few drops of acid and base, next I then add a few drops of universal indicator to show what colour it turns to,it turned to colour red meaning it has many acid in it so I drop few of base, the more I drop few base the lesser red it turn, so I drop few of hydroxide until it gets colour green.

Film Study

Hunger Games
Opening Scene
Music:
Slow (timbre)
Minor tone - often means something bad
is happening or about to happen
Silence - grabs attention

Capital video - major
- saying it is a good thing
- War in the past was worse
Rest of music - minor
- Kids are terrified

Camera Shots:
Mid shots - to show face and body language
Close up - of Katniss and Prim to show emotion
Wide view - see setting, get more information at once
Extreme close ups - focus on specific information, ex the signs say 'Danger!'
Tracking shots - showed how her surroundings changed, that she was going somewhere.
Shaky Camera - more realistic, unsettling as if it's running with her, makes sense for the scene - during district 12 opening 

Close ups - Katniss's reaction to Prim's name
- Effie about to read out names - see her make up, how she is different to everyone else - shows she is rich.
Medium range - Effie takes Katniss & Reta away, when Katniss is in the crowd.
Long/wide shot - Effie looking out, ti see the mass of people
Panning - when people show respect and lift their fingers for her.
POV - Katniss looking for Prim, when giving sign of respect, watching capital's film, when Katniss walks up stairs - extra shaky to show her fear.
Flashback - memory if Pera and the bread, show she knows him, He helps her.

Dialogue:
Crane & Caesar - celebration 'knitting people together'
Crane's 'style' of Game making make prim cry & scream
Prim dreams it was her selected.
Katniss say 'It's your first time you wont get picked' - foreshadowing

Reading out the names
Calm at first, then screaming
'I volunteer as tribute' - sister bond
District 12 first volunteer
Effie - surprised - volunteer make her feel better - could get promotion
- excited-entertain
calm-doesn't have to sacrifice

Colour & Lighting:
The interview - saturated colours, very bright, neon, very artificial, cold light.
District 12 - dull, bland, natural, dark, cold light as well.

Propaganda
What is it? Information that gives a bias opinion.
Where do we see it?
- Video from the capital
- The games itself is propaganda - all the tributes
Real message
- You have fought back once and lost now we can kill your children and there is nothing you can do.
Propaganda message
- It is not a bad thing.
- If you win, you will 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)
- The amount of food.
- Bright colours.
- Costuming - Extravagant
- Modern architecture 
- Everything is controlled - no nature.
- Clean
- Fit & healthy
- Materials - stone, marble, metals.
Poor (District 12)
- People were starving.
-  Dull colours
- Costuming - wearing 'best' types - stereotypes. 
- Small and sickly - don't stand a chance in the Hunger Games.
- Old farm housed/shacks - old - need repair - dirty 
- One good building - for filming - control.
- Materials - mostly wood.

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Dialogue
- Only stronger than fear
- Link to propaganda - false sense of hope that at least one will live.
- Just killing everyone cause resentment - Capital don't want to kill everyone, they need them.
- Hope is only effective if contained.
Camera Shots
- Mid shot - between Crane and Snow talking - to show expression & body language.
- POV - show & Crane - showing their deep conversation.
- Close up - of rose - pruning - metaphor for his 'perfect society' for control.
- Extreme close up of flowers.
- Flower ring showed she really cared for Rue.
- Showing that the games will not change her.
- POV/High angle - showing that she is aware that she is being watched.
Music 
- Sad minor
- Medium timbre
- Progress to being more powerful - more hopeful.

Rebelling - District 11 - Links to 'Black lives' very well.
Music
- up tempo
- more aggressive/emotional

Camera shot
- Track - close up of hands - really important - shows they are united - link to symbol to black lives matter move.
- Wide - to show all the people.
- Birds eye view - drone coming blowing papers - plane landing effect - papers were important - shows technology - Capital is bigger and stronger.
- Cutting shots of shaky camera - creates tension - showed the chaos.
Lighting 
- At the start of scene it was day.
- At end it was night - show fighting for hours.

Rebellion
Music - sad - minor
- Powerful.
- Enhanced the drama.
- No lyrics - emphasise her words, adds to the depth of the scene.
Dialogue
- Katniss rebelling against the propaganda of 'their has to be a victor'.
- Voice over urgently saying 'stop'. Katniss has beaten them at their own game.
- First Capital beaten at own game.
- 1st time 2 victors.
- She embarrassed the Capital.
Camera Shot
- Close ups - 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.
- Extreme close up - the berries - they were the thing that changed everything.
Rich vs Poor
Poor 
- Close up - of guy eating everything he could - food is precious - people here are starving
- Car was malnourished.
- Really dirty - mud everywhere - flies everywhere - cleaning is not a priority.
- Extreme close up - Electric fence sign - fence and money to power it.
- Costuming and Setting - looked like they are in the past - wooden - old, run down.
- Minors were going into the mine but were still covered in soot.
Capital
- Establishing shot - of the capital - see the buildings, the grandur - everything was modern - technology - white/clean/crisp.
- Costuming - Fashion and make up really extravagant.
- Close up - to see lady with big gold eye lashes - the pink poodle.
- Gives huge contrast to lives 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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Katniss
- Tough - had to mature fast after dad died.
- Emotionless - well hidden.
- Protective of the people she loves.
- Impulsive - volunteering for Prim.
- Caring - flowers around Rue's body.
- Rebellious - sneak out of District.
- Introverted - not very good at making friends. (Like me)
Haymitch
- Alcoholic - trauma, stress - feels like a pawn.
- Depressed
- Smart, reliable - surprised his tributes abilities- smart because he understands that the HG is a TV show.
- Brutally honest - aggressive.
- Witty, cunning.
- Agile - when Peeta tries to get his drink.
Peeta
- Soft - bad or good?
- Crying when he leaves.
- Kind - giving the bread to Katniss.
- Gullible.
- Smarter than he looks.
- Physically strong.
- Socially persuasive - likeable.
- Artistic, creative, cake decorating.
Effie
- Enthusiastic.
- Calm about  the HG - Her job.
- Oblivious of the reality.
- Status driven - focus on 'manners'

SDL Goal Week

This week I will be doing ' Have a positive attitude to all parts of learning including setbacks'.

Reflection - Music

What instrument did you choose to learn and why?
Piano, because it's the only instrument I want to learn and no other. Another reason, piano is my most favourite instrument of all.

What song did you choose to learn and why?

Isn't she lovely, it's a soul song and I think it's the best piano song for us to play.

What was challenging about this piece and how did you overcome the challenges?

Doing it solo is the challenging part for me, I overcome it by playing it slowly with both hands.

Were you happy with your final recording/performance? why?

Yes, it went well and what I expect to happen.

What would you change about your performance if you could do it again?

I would probably pick another song that I know.

Were you happy with your overall grade and why?

Yes, because it's the grade I was given so..

What have you enjoyed about Music this semester?

All of it..

Migration

Here's my work about migration, just to let you know, this video has no sound... Thanks

SDL Goal Week

This week I will be doing: