Costumes in the hunger games

Scene 1
Reaping scene
Whats happening

• 2 tributes are selected to compete in the hunger games. 
• Best dressed 

Describe costumes 

• Light colours 
• Neutral tones
• Old fashioned
• Simple
• Boys - Dress shirts, pants or shorts               Formal / Sunday best
• Girls - Hair tidy, Dressed or skirts 
• Cold colours 
• Clean
• Faded colours - washed or warn a lot
• Older clothes have been mended

Effect on the viewer 

• Thinks they are poor - because clothes are outdated
• Peace keeper / Effie in new clean outfits
• Think it is a bad living environment - 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 district doesn't have access to resources like new clothing. 

Other Techniques 

• Make-up - Style = Status, Effie's eyelashes are long. 
• Face is white. The district has no make-u - no access or need for it. 

Scene 2

Brainstorm: 

Whats happening 

• in the capital, Katness and Peeta just getting off the train, Have never been there before 

Describe costumes 

• Bright, Colorful, Neon, Extravagant, Vibrant, Over sized
• Looks expensive and more fancy than casual
• Over the top / excessive, more than what they need to be practical  
• Head pieces to match, wigs
• Both genders over the top outfits / wigs / make-up 

Effect on the viewer 

• Think they are rich / Greed / Wealth - have more then us
• Fashion is shocking / scary to viewer - in your face
• Shows us how shocked / different things are for Katniss and Peeta 

Directors purpose 

• 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 that capital have everything

Techniques

• Make-up - over the top , caked on so we know they have lots. men / women both wear it
• Setting, Concrete, metal, glass, clean, crisp, futuristic, technologically advanced 

Scene 3

Whats happening

• In the arena of the hunger games

Describe costumes 

• Suitable for fighting 
• Jackets, boots, shirts, long pants 
• Colours that will match the surrounding and help them hide
• Tells us about the climate in the arena 

Effect on the viewer: 

• Feels like they are going to go to war / hunting - all dressed same uniform
• All looks same, everyone has the same advantage 
• Makes us less emotionally attached to the characters 

Directors purpose :

• Rich vs poor  - everyone is finally equal so personal skills become important 
• Struggle for power - Tributes are under the power of the capital, they have no freedom, free will at this point. 

(S) 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 makes us understand the people in District 12 are poor because their best clothes are old and faded ' compared to the Captiol representative Effie Trinket.
(X) This is don't to show the Juxtaposition between the extreme wealth of the Captiol 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 barley afford clothes. This aspect can be compared to the scene where the tributes arrive off the train in the Captiol. Here we see luxury and excess wealth in the costumes of the Captiol citizens compared to the regs worn by Peeta and Katniss