Tuesday, July 21, 2020
essay prep thing
key relation ship
Katniss
- emotionally and physically stronger
- more powerful and popular - everyone knows who she is now
- beginning - caring for her sister, shy, quite, strength in hunting/archery, shows caring and selfless when she volunteers for prim in the reaping, values family
- middle - when she enters the games - determined, cautious - runs away and hides, smart, doesn't kill unless she has to, still see she caring and looks after others, doesn't want to use her skills to hunt others, she watching people die - her reactions are big, forms an alliance with Peeta which makes them favourites and her popular in the capitol, more cunning - no longer oblivious to the influence of the capitol - wee see when she forms alliance with Peeta.
- end - angry, powerful - has power over the capitol because she was going to end the games with no victor, intimidating,
theme link to-
hope & rebellion - starts the capitols rules but by the end she stops and rebels against them.
rich vs poor - not a good choice
propaganda - she goes against the propaganda of the capitol - they are fighting for glory, the capitol is superior, the games are a good thing
struggle for power - in the games she was powerless, eventually she gains the power through rebellion.
thesis statement:
In Gary Ross's film, the hunger games, one way that katniss changed was by gaining power and influence in the capitol. this is shown through her struggles with the theme hope and rebellion
paragraph one - describe her at the beginning in detail - clothes, make-up, family, values, characteristics
sentence linking to theme - has no hope at start
paragraph two - describe change at middle in detail, link to theme.
paragraph one - describe her at the beginning in detail - clothes, make-up, family, values, characteristics
sentence linking to theme - has no hope at start
paragraph two - describe change at middle in detail, link to theme.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
music - film study
CHORDS{ minor - sad tone
{ major - upbeat, happy music, tone
TEMPO { fast - energetic, intense, gain interest
{ slow - bored, lazy, lethargic
DYNAMICS { loud - energy, intense, rising action
{ quite - background, make you focus, builds tension
slow
minor
loud
sleepy and calm
WHAT SCENE: opening scene
TECHNIQUES: minor chords - tired
- slow tempo
- gained volume - builds intensity
- non diegetic sound
AUDIENCE FEEL:- sad scene, foreshadowing, interesting
DIRECTORS PURPOSE: build emotion/atmosphere
minor
volume building up
non diegetic sound
sad
WHAT SCENE: the reaping - music starts when katniss walks to the stage
TECHNIQUES: minor chords
slow
dynamics - gains volume then drops then builds
AUDIENCE FEEL: emotional eery, melancholic, ominous
DIRECTORS PURPOSE: foreshadowing sadness, katniss has just volunteered, will most likely be eliminated
let us feel katniss emotions on a more personal level
sad/low
minor
slow
non-diegetic sound
WHAT SCENE: farewell for rue
TECHNIQUES: minor chords
slow to medium tempo
dynamics - builds to forte
AUDIENCE FEEL: katniss greif, sorrow, misery, anger at the unfair death of her friend
DIRECTORS PURPOSE: makes us feel katniss emotion
more intense than if we heard her scream, makes us notice more
uses music to tell us the pain she feels
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