Hunger Games Symbols

In the hunger games there are many symbols and i am writing about a few of them 

What am i learning? I am learning to identify and evaluate of the different symbols that were used through the movie.

How does this work show my learning. This

In the movie the Hunger Games, They do this thing called the 3 finger salute. You see it a few times like when Katniss and Peeta are up on the stage in district twelve after they had been picked (or volunteered in Katniss's case) to compete in the hunger games. And another scene is when they are in the hunger games and rue dies, Katniss does a 3 finger salute to the camera. This is used as a sign of respect and a friendly gesture. 

One of the other scenes is with the Mocking jay pin. This pin was given to Katniss right before the game started as a sign of safety ( to keep her safe ) This pin is worn by Katniss in the games So she would hopefully be safe from everything. This pin was given to Katniss by Cinna and to me this shows a gesture of friendship, and just overall that Cinna doesn't want Katniss to get hurt. 

                                         

Another scene in, Hunger Games, when they are showing all of the tributes from each of the districts, Katniss wears this flaming dress while riding on the carriage. This has an important part in the film because even though they might be from district twelve, they are confident and that they like to put on a show. She also shows off her flaming dress at the interview on the stage with Caesar. This once again shows that she is confident and when she did it everyone that was watching was astonished by what she just did.

Music in the hunger games

             - Major - upbeat, happy music
Chords
             -Minor - Sad, Emotional

            - Fast - Energetic, Intense
Tempo
            - Slow - Bored, lazy, Lethargic


                - Loud - energy, intensity, rise in action
Dynamics
                - Quiet - Background, makes you focus, Listen, builds tension

1. minor , slow , loud, it feels intense

What scene? opening scene

Techniques -
minor chords - tired
Slow tempo
Gained volume - builds intensity
Non Diagetic

Audience -
Sad scene, Foreshadowing, interested

Directors purpose - Builds emotions / atmosphere


2 slow tempo , increases in volume,  minor

What scene? The reaping scene  - music starts as Katniss walks to the stage

Techniques -
Minor chords
slow tempo
Dynamics - gains volume then drops then builds

Audience feel -
Emotional
Eery
Ominious
Melancholic

Directors purpose -
foreshadowing sadness
Katniss just volunteered
will most likely be eliminated
Lets us feel Katniss emotions on personal level

What scene?
Rue's death - rue is killed Katniss prepares her body to be taken away. . Surrounds by flowers, solutes the TV

Techniques -
Minor chords
Slow tempo
Dynamics  - Gains in volume. Becomes more hopeful the further it goes on. Tempo speeds up then slows back down

Audience feel -
Sad
Emotional
Katniss grief
Sorrow
Misery
Anger at the unfair death of her friend.

Directors purpose -
makes us feel Katniss emotions
More intense than if we heard her scream
Makes us notice it more
- uses music to tell us the pain she feels.

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 

Testing for the presence of oxygen

Aim :
To carry out a test for the presence of oxygen gas.

Method:

1. Light your Bunsen burner
2. Add the manganese dioxide to the boiling tube and place it in your test tube rack. 
3. Add 2mL of hydrogen peroxide
4. Light a splint and let it burn for a while 
5. Blow out the splint and insert the glowing embers in the mouth of the test tube. 

Observations:

When we added the hydrogen peroxide the manganese dioxide foamed up about an inch or two and then when we added the glowing splint the oxygen present from the reaction of the hydrogen peroxide and the manganese dioxide it re lit the splint because of the heat from the glowing embers. 

Discussion: 

The manganese dioxide and the hydrogen peroxide are mixed because of the rapid expansion in gas level in the small enclosed space of the boiling tube, it foams up. After that reaction the boiling tube because warm to the touch. 

Conclusion:

So this experiment was very enjoyable and some things came as a surprise like the foaming up and the re lighting of  the splint was pretty cool but overall it was a good experiment.  

Freytags Triangle

What am i learning?
I am learning to analyse the plot to the movie, "Hunger Games"

How does this work show my learning?
This work shows my learning because it shows i understand the timeline / plot of the film and i have presented it is a new interesting way.

What am i wondering as a result of my learning?
I am wondering the length of time it would take to thing of each scene they use in the film.

Art

 

This is my three layer reduction print that i have done during the time period of this term and the end of
last term.  For this we started off by learning and practicing drawing these birds in preparation for our lino
cut. We then had to draw it and then transfer the drawing to a piece of lino for the print. We then had to
figure out what colours we are going to use and then had to cut out the parts we wanted blank. We then
printed one colour and repeated that process for another two colours. I learnt that it is awfully time
consuming to do this but it is also fun.  It came out really well, like the colours work well together and I
got it pretty accurate.