The Hunger Games Workshop 3 - Costumes

Atmosphere/mood - how you feel in your surroundings/how your surroundings make you feel.

Picture 1
The Reaping scene, District 12
The clothing worn by the people of District 12 is old, rather bland and simple, not much colour. The boys are wearing trousers and dress shirts, the girls are wearing old-fashioned dresses or skirts with short-sleeved shirts. Most of the girls were wearing braids, and the boys all had short hair. Katniss' hair is in a messy bun, Primrose's hair is in two braids. Katniss is wearing a blue dress, Primrose is wearing white. The people in District 12 all look the same, showing they're equal and making where they come from quite evident. When Effy comes in she's wearing an extremely bright pink dress made out of a sort of velvet material, a giant curly white wig, ridiculously cakey and over the top make up, hair and eyelash extensions etc. This introduces the idea of rich vs poor, and Effy becomes a symbol of wealth.

Director wants the audience to empathise with the characters, and show how stressed and worried they are.

-impoverished
- live hard lives
- scene is tense, people are in fear
- Work for their money

Picture 2
The Capitol
The people in the Capitol all wear fancy luxurious clothing. Their clothing is vibrant and over the top, very bold. Most of them have very unique hairstyles and both men and women wear colourful exaggerated make-up. No one looks alike. A lot of them wear some sort of extensions (both eyelashes and hair), wigs and other head pieces. More advanced technology used in the process of making their clothing, making the quality of their clothing reasonably good, but only designed to be worn a few times unlike the people of District 12.

The director doing this makes the audience despise the people in the Capitol for having everything, and having easy care free lives. They all seem like arrogant pricks. It also shows who is superior and who is inferior.

- live easy lives
- wealthy
- live care free and luxuriously

Picture 3
Beginning of the games, the arena
The tributes wear very dull and camouflaged colours - dark greens, black, grey, almost maroon red, dark brown etc. They wear jackets which look both wind and rain proof, t-shirts, cargos, long pants and combat boots. All 24 of them look very similar clothing wise - it doesn't really matter what they look like considering most of them will die. When they're all dressed the same, due to the fact they aren't main characters it's much easier for the audience to watch a large number of them die pretty much immediately. They're jackets and other clothing are quite thin and lightweight to make moving easier and to fit the environment they are entering.

Themes:
- Hope and rebellion
- Rich vs Poor
- Struggle for Power

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In the reaping scene, the use of costume is extremely effective for seeing the imbalance between the rich and the poor in Panem. For instance, the children of District 12 all look alike in dull, colourless, and worn clothing. In contrast, Effy Trinket wears extremely vibrant and luxurious looking clothing, an excessive amount of cakey bold make-up, and a large wig and headpiece, all fitting her over-the-top and over-positive attitude. This makes the audience feel empathetic for the people of District 12, as Effy acts as a symbol of the wealth in the Capitol. We see that not everyone in Panem lives a hard and impoverished life. The director did this to establish the contrast between the hard lives of those in Katniss' district and the lavish easy-going lives of those in the Capitol. Coinciding with this is Effy's behaviour. She is loud, over confident, far too happy and slightly unnerving while the members of District 12 are quiet and fear for their lives. This can be juxtaposed to the scene where Katniss and Peeta arrive in the Capitol. In this scene, everyone else is wealthy and clean, whereas they are the ones who no longer fit in.