English- film studies

Important settings the movies 'Hunger Games'

Aim: To make acid-base indicators using everyday substances.

Equipment: Red cabbage, tea, beetroot, turmeric, cranberry juice, a beaker, water, tripod, Bunsen burner, gauze mat, 1.0 moI L1.0 moI L-1 HCI 1.0 mol L-1 NaOH. 


Task One

For Cabbage and Beetroot 

Chop the cabbage into small pieces until you have enough to fill 2 cups.

Place the cabbage in a large beaker and add water to cover the cabbage.

Boil over a Bunsen burner for at least ten minutes for the colour to leach out of the cabbage.

Filter out the plant material to obtain a red-purple-bluish coloured liquid. This liquid is at about pH 7. (The exact colour you get depends on the pH of the water.)

Place in a small beaker and leave to one side.

Repeat this method for the beetroot.



For The Tea

Put 100 ml of water into a beaker and boil.

Turn off the Bunsen burner and put three tea bags in the beaker.

Remove the tea bags when the tea is very strong.

Place in a small beaker and leave to one side.



For The Cranberry Juice

Pour into a beaker and leave to one side.



For the Turmeric 

Mix 1 teaspoon turmeric in 100 mL cup of alcohol.

Place in a small beaker and leave to one side.

films notes - hungry games

=Opening Scene=

Music = Slow (Timbre)

Minor Tone = Often means something bad is happening or about to happen 

Silence = Grabs attention 

Camera Shots;

Mid Shot; To show face and body language. 

Closeup; Of Katniss and Prim, to show emotions. 

Wide View; See setting, get more information at once.

Extreme Closeup; Focus on specific information, eg the signs say “Danger.”

Tracking Shot; Showed how her surroundings changed, that she was going somewhere.

Shaky Camera = More realistic, unsettling, as if it’s running with her, makes sense for the scene.

Dialogue;

Crane & Caesar = In The Capital The Hunger Games Is A Celebration ‘Knitting people together’

District 12 - Screaming

-Crane’s ‘style’ of game making make Prim cry and scream (nightmare).

-Prim dreams it was her selected 

-Katniss says ‘It’s your first time you won’t get picked.’ - Foreshadowing.

Colour and Lighting 

The interview - saturated colours, very bright. Neon. Very artificial. Cold Light.

District 12 - Dull, Bland, Natural, Dark, Cold light as well. 

=Choosing The Players=

Music

Capital Video - Major: 

-Saying it is a good thing

-War in the past was worse 

Rest of the music - Minor 

-Kids were terrified 

Dialogue

Reading out the names

-Calm at first, then screaming 

“I volunteer as tribute” - sister bond

-District 12’s first volunteer 

- Effie was surprised (Volunteer made her feel better, she could also get a promotion), excited (entertainment), calm (doesn’t have to sacrifice) 

Camera Shots

Closeups

-Katniss’ reaction to Prims name

-Effie about to read out names (see her makeup and how she is different from everyone else)

Medium range 

-Effie takes Katniss 

-Peeta away

-When Katniss is in the crowd 

Long wide

-Effie looking out

-To see the mass of people 

Panning 

-When people show respect and lift their fingers for her.

POV

-Katniss looking for Prim

- When giving a sign of respect 

-Watching capitals film 

-When Katniss walks up the stairs - extra shaking of the camera to show fear

Flashback 

-A memory of Peeta and the bread 

-She knows him (or of him)

-He helps her 

=Propaganda=

What is it?

Information that gives a bias opinion (one opinion or fake news (one side of the story.)

Where do we see it?

• Video from the capital 
• The games itself is propaganda
• All the tributes are trying to put out propaganda (bias opinions)

Real Message 

• You have fought back once and lost
• How we can kill your children and there is nothing you can do about it 

Propaganda Message

• It is not a bad thing
• If you want, you will be a hero to your district 
• The boy and girl in the film big, strong, healthy fit (look like adults)
• How they remember their past
• Don’t give detail ‘why’ there was a revolt
• Played every year (Gale mocks it)

Key Vocab

• Honor 
• Glory 
• Eliminated
• PeaceKeeper

Rich and Poor

Rich = Capital 

• The amount of food
• Costuming is extravagant 
• Bright colours 
• Modern Architecture 
• Everything is controlled in the Capital - no nature 
• Materials - Stone, Marbel, Metal.
• Technology 

Poor = District 12

• People were starving 
• Dull colours
• Costuming - wearing ‘best’ clothes they have
• Stereotypes
• Small and Sickly Kids - Don’t have a chance in the Hunger Games
• Old Houses/shacks
• Need repair 
• Dirty
• Paint peeling off the houses
• Like the older days (District 12 is in the past and the Capital is based in the future)
• One good building 

• Materials - Mostly wood 

Music - Term 1 Performance Assessment

Questions

What instrument did you choose to learn and why? Piano

What song did you choose to learn and why? see you again (intro)

What was challenging about this piece and how did you overcome the challenges? it was really challenging people we were suppose to be in group of three, one was singing and the other two playing the piano ( note and chords ) but izzy ( one of the member) got really sick and couldnt come to school for weeks. that left me and sophie to just do the piano for the ¨song see you again". Sophie end up doing the chords meanwhile i was doing the notes. at first it was really hard to do them at the same time but after weeks of training we finally got it.

Were you happy with your final recording/performance? why? yes, because after all the challenges we did we still manged to finish it.

What would you change about your performance if you could do it again? nothing really im pretty proud of what see did

Were you happy with your overall grade and why? yes and because we got an A

What have you enjoyed about Music this semester? learning a new song to play on the piano