The Hunger Games - Workshop 2 - Music

Track one
- Introductory music
- Fast paced
- Deep undertone
- Stringed instruments

Track two
- Suspenseful
- Dramatic
- Stringed instruments
- Fast paced
- Flute
- Movement
- Progressively gets louder

Track three
- Slow paced
- Strings
- Sad/solemn
- Volume changes throughout song
- Played when Rue dies..?

Track four 
- Deep
- Double bass
- Violin or other stringed instruments
- Slow paced
- Suspenseful
- Played during reaping scene

Notes:
- Emotions and feelings that music and sound in film give the viewers
- Tempo - speed, how fast the song is being played
- Faster, upbeat or more energetic, slower, sad, less upbeat and less energetic
- Chords: Major - bright, happy. Minor - Sinister, sad.
- Dynamics - volume, how loud or how quiet something is. Louder - Focus more on the music than whats happening on screen, to raise emotions. Quieter - subtle, forces audience to focus on the scene.

Song 1
- Fast paced
- Cheerful and upbeat
- Calm

Song 2
- Slower tempo
- Sad/solemn/sombre
- Sort of a country vibe

The Reaping Scene
- Starts with no music, only background noise (no dialogue). Makes you feel suspenseful/on edge, realism.
- During Snow's propaganda video: Tempo - medium. Has a sound of building suspense. Minor chords are used. Dynamics - starts rather quiet, volume doesn't raise much, making everyone focus on the video more than the music.
- Back to silence as Effy draws Primrose's name.
- Still silence as the people of District 12 do the three-finger salute.
- Music starts slowly and quietly as Peeta is introduced. Predominantly minor chords, instruments such as violins or cellos, double bass', trumpets, horns etc.
- Tempo starts slow but increases.
- Makes audience feel sorry for him/empathetic.

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The effective use of music and silence during the Reaping scene creates a tense and foreboding atmosphere. In this scene, two people from District 12 are chosen to represent their district as tributes in the Hunger Games, and we see Katniss volunteer for her little sister. The male tribute selected was Peeta Mellark. Silence is used when Effy draws and reads out the tribute's names to make us feel like the moment is real, to make us focus and to build the suspense. The director has done this to make the audience worry for the characters involved who will be effected. Music was used when first introducing Peeta, predominantly minor and having a rather slow tempo, giving the feeling of sadness and anxiousness much like Peeta in this scene. This is combined with close-up shots of Peeta's worried facial expressions to draw the viewer in.