The Hunger Games Camera Techniques

The film, “The Hunger Games”, directed by Gary Ross, uses a range of different camera techniques and camera angles which creates an impact that gives the audience a chance to have a closer, more in depth look at the scene and gives an indication to what the characters are feeling. He uses specific camera techniques such as a hand held camera which helps give the audience an indication on how the characters are feeling, Mi Sen Scene to show the vast differences between the Capitol and district 12 and high and low camera shots to show who is viewed as the stronger being and weaker one. These create an impact because it helps set up and shape the film so the audience can understand the characters, setting and theme better, and it impacts the audience because it engages them, drawing them in and leaving them wanting to know what will happen next

Gary Ross uses specific camera techniques such as jerky camera movements to represent the terror that the tributes feel. For example, when the tributes were all standing on the podium, …show more content…
By using these angle shots, it helps to show who is viewed as a superior and who is the weak and powerless one, An example from the movie could be at the reaping how a lot of the shots were projected down towards district 12 with peacekeepers positioned up above them. This shows that the people of the district 12 are only seen as nothing more than powerless beings being controlled by fear. The peacekeepers control them with massive weaponry which just makes them look even more intimidating. It creates the impact of making the audience sympathise for district 12 as it is obvious how vulnerable and scared they truly are.

Gary Ross uses a series of camera techniques that creates an impact that gives the audience to feel sympathy towards the districts and tributes and for the audience to also think about the unfairness of the massive contrast between the two completely different