Costumes Work Shop

This is the link to the slide that we are working off today.

Picture 1: The people in District 12 are waiting to find out who is going to be reaped.

Describe: Clothes are old and worn, the colours are faded because of how much they wash them they have dark colours so the coal does not stain them. At the reaping they wear there best clothes because they are being watched by the Capitol and other Districts don't want to look as poor as they are. Boys are wearing button up shirts, suspenders, trousers and shorts. The girls are wearing dresses or skirts, the length is past there knees but not any longer. Most of the girls have there hair really tidy and the boys have it nice as well. No one has any accessories because they are not needed and they don't have the money to buy it anyway.

Viewer Perspective: They are poor, they don't have enough money to buy the basics. They want to be seen as equal not as just dirty coal miners.

Why Did The Director Do It?: To show the differences between people in the capitol and all of the others districts. The capitol has wealth and privilege, their clothes are nicer, they have a lot more stuff available, they can get stuff that actually fits them.

Techniques: The camera angle is a wide shot witch shows lots of people crammed together. There is also a high angle which makes subjects make weak and vulnerability which emphasises that power of the capitol of the districts.

Picture 2: When Katniss and Peeta arrive in the capitol people are waiting for them.

Costumes: Colourful, immaculate, exotic, co-ordinate, variety. Women usually wear dresses, different styles but on the same bright colour palette. Men wear suits, skirts. Accessories- Dyed dogs, headgear, handbags, gloves, earrings, make-up. The accessories are not limited to one gender.

Effect On Viewer: That they are wealthy - not poor, they have privileged- born into a wealthy family and they don't have to work.

Director Purpose: To highlight the luxuries of the capital.

Techniques: Setting- Light, modern architecture, stones, Metal, steel, fresh, new, futuristic.

Paragraph 1: in the name of the reaping scene, costumes are used effectively to show 'Rich Vs Poor'. in this case, 'Rich Vs Poor' means the privileges afforded to people in panam based on there district. This is demonstrated by the clothing worn by the residents of District 12 during the annual reaping. The clothes are uniform like, well worn and bland colours. The boys wear button up collar shirts and shorts or trousers whilst the girls wear skirts or dresses. These are example of there best clothing which tells us that they are poor and limited to what they can access. This makes the audience think that although they are poor and can only afford the basics they want to be seen as respectable by the capitol and other districts not just as coal miners. This was done to show the differences between the capitol and the other districts- the capitol has wealth and privilege whilst the people in the districts have to make do. This worked well with the use of camera angles. In this shot a high angle wide shot is used to show that people of District 12 are weaker and more vulnerable under the power of those of the Capitol. This can be juxtaposed to the use of costumes in the capitol where we see 'Rich Vs Poor' through the extravagance and luxuries of the citizens costumes.

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