Hunger Games Film Techniques Kwan

The film The Hunger Games uses many film techniques like camera angles, sound effects, and color to express emotion and to symbolize and give meanings to create mood for the audience. The using of the camera angle in the movie gives off the effect of the point of view of the character and how the director wants you to feel like. When Katniss was looking down at her mother, the camera was tilting over the shoulder downwards slightly; this effect was to show how she feels towards her mother telling her not to leave Prim, the camera angle and movement gives you the feeling of the characters in the movie. Sound effects are also very effective in creating mood. A great part that shows sound effect was when Katniss was being taken away after the reaping, she is so nervous and her mind is blank so sound was almost muted like everything is going right through her head. Color was also used a lot in The Hunger Games movie to contrast the capitol and the districts. There were lots of contrasting colors, in the reaping, district twelve was grey and blue, but Effie is bright purple contrasting who she is and showing her royalty to the capitol with the purple. Also,there was contrast in the testing room for tributes, the game makers were sitting where the room is colored brightly and the tributes in the dim and grey part of the room. This makes the audience see the great difference between the capitol and the tributes. From these three techniques, you can see how it affects emotion, or symbolism presented in the film The Hunger Games.