The Hunger Games Film Technique

The trilogy and now - movies, the Hunger Games, has won many awards. Many things contribute to having a movie win an award, like the plot, and sometimes even the techniques the directors use to make it a reason why everyone wants to watch it. In the film The Hunger Games, the directors and the cameramen used many different types of techniques to create a feel, like they would use different camera angles, they would use powerful sound effects, and they would have the actors overreact at some point to show the feeling. The cameramen would use different camera angles so that the audience can really feel what is happening, as if they were right there with the character. For example, in the scene where Katniss is on the stage at the reaping - the camera’s angle was straight at her and she was standing in the middle of the screen with the audience as a foreground. This showed that she felt vulnerable. Compared to the audience, which was closer to the camera that made them seem bigger, she was small in the distance. She was alone, with Effie on the stage while everyone was watching her. Not only that, the directors would use powerful sound effects to help create emotion for the scene. For example, like the scene where Katniss and Peeta are at the ceremony at the Capitol, wearing fire-suits. The crowd’s cheer is loud enough. Meanwhile the chariot is going, Peeta takes Katniss’ hand and raises it, like to symbolize “We Unite”. During that, there is a crowd cheer sound effect, to show that the audience likes it. The cheer gets louder, to show that they like it. Then, the actors have to sometimes overreact to show that extreme feeling. Like for example, if they are scared, they cannot show how they really react. They have to overreact. Like when the movie started, it started with a scream that could give you chills. Primrose screamed. If she really screamed like how she screams, it wouldn’t match the situation. This, to use different camera angles, to use powerful sound effects, and to overreact are ways to create feel. If these weren’t included in how the movie went, then it wouldn’t be a fun movie that everyone anticipates and it would’nt win awards.