In the film The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross, its about 12 Districts who are suffering in poverty and under control of the Capitol and the Panem which is mainly the Government and the Upper Class in their society. The director shows this through setting and costumes as a Visual technique.. The people in the 12 districts lives in unstable houses and suffers from hunger. They all dressed in plain and dull clothing. Compare to the people of the Capitol, they were all dressed in colourful and weird clothing with make up and accessories. The places that they live in were luxury and has lots of food to eat for them to survive. The event Hunger Games, is when each districts has to represent a tribute of 1 boy and 1 girl in age between 12-18 years of age annually as a punishment and reminder of the power and honour of the Capitol. As because of the rebellion that the District 13 has done which had the outcome of the destruction of this District. Each District's tributes are chosen through lottery system to participate in this event. However, if one chooses to be a volunteer in order to participate in the games, she/he is welcome to do so. The games is played by having all 24 tributes fighting and killing each other to be able to survive in the event, at the end only 1 person could survive and be known as the "Victor".
Capitol's Train Station
The 3 main protagonist of this film were Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark and President Snow. They are the important characters of this film as because they play a big role which affects the whole story line of this film. Firstly, the 2 main protagonist Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. They are both from the poorest district which is District 12 who is known for coal-mining. Moreover, they are the tributes who is participating in the games. These 2 tributes both have a special ability to be able to survive the games. Katniss is good at using the bow and arrow as she use this skills for hunting food for her and her mum and sister "Primrose Everdeen", while Peeta Mellark could carry 25kg and more as because he is a baker's son and used to carrying bag of flours to help his family's business. The techniques that were used to show each of their characteristics thought their costumes, setting,movements and dialogue. To show Katniss's character, for visual technique, she was holding a bow and arrow in the scene where Katniss was trying to hit the deer in the forest for food with her arrow but failed, however it was a close shots and movement that was showed in this scene was her skill to shoot a target This showed that she has skills for using the bow and arrow, and for dialogue she uses her voice to show that she really wanted to shoot the target by sighing because of disappointment. As for Peeta, it showed his characterististic by wearing an apron and normal clothes underneath, this shows that he is a baker's son. Moreover, he lives in a bake house and in the scene where Peeta helped Katniss as she because she was found under the rain weakening. So he gave him food, which was the burnt bread that he mistakenly left in the oven and got burnt and was supposed to be for the pigs. But Katniss still accepted as it was hers last resort of survival because hunger is the big problem in each districts.
The last main protagonist was President Snow. He is the 3rd important character as he is the President of the nation of Panem. He controls the nation, which includes the Capitol and the 12 Districts. Furthermore, he is also the founder of the event The Hunger Games. This shows through costumes, setting and dialgoue. President Snow wears a kind of clothing as people wear in the Capitol, however he keeps that image of being a powerful and a honoured president of the nation. As for the setting, it showed in the film that he lives in a more luxury house and has his own office. Moreover, he also controls his own workers. As a dialogue, he said as an introduction in the video, in the scene where the lottery was about to be done was "And so it was decreed that each year, the various districts of Panem would offer up in tribute, one young man and woman to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice." , this shows that he does not show mercy to the young people who are participating in the games and supports this creed.
This clip shows Seneca's final scene as because President Snow was not please to see the outcome of the 74th Annual Hunger Games.
These photos shows what a Capitol Citizen's house would look like.
District 12 marketplace
District 12 youth getting ready for the Reaping.
Capitol citizen's clothing and make up.
Capitol City (Buildings)
Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen announced as the tributes of District 12 in the reaping
Katniss, hunting for food.
Peeta's Family business
Peeta dress as a Baker worker.
President Snow
The Capitol Stadium where the Upper class and President greet the 2 tributes from each 12 Districts
Scene where President Snow saying a Speech about the Games, and said the Panem's logan "May the odds be ever in your favour"
Katniss and Peeta looking up to contrast the difference of their ranks. Using camera angle as a Visual technique.