The other day, I watched the move, The Hunger Games, with my friends. I had read all the books and frankly, was in love with them. I'd seen the movie before, but decided that this time, I would watch it from an analytical film perspective rather than judging it on how much different it was then the book because frankly, no movie can capture an entire book or book series perfectly as we've seen many times (Harry Potter, Twilight, ect.).
I loved the DIY approach that Gary Ross took when shooting the movie by having most of the movie shot "hand held" which most feature length blockbuster movies never do. I noticed very quickly that whenever the scene was taking place in a high tense situation or an impoverished area, everything was shot hand held and the editing was extremely fast jump cuts and very bare bones from an editing perspective. This puts the audience in a certain mood I could tell from watching it. It became even more noticeable during the few scenes that were in the rich capitol where every shot was either a tripod, steady cam, or jib type shot with extremely smooth cutting from an editing stand point. Everything was very refined and more typical of most blockbusters to show the wealth of the area they were in.
They way this movie was shot was very different in my opinion from most blockbuster type large budget movies and from that aspect, I thought the movie excelled. They did a great job of capturing the "indie feel" that the book had been written in. There also isn't a ton of music in the movie which I think is very important because most of the "districts" didn't have any organized music so it wouldn't make sense with the story. The only songs were folk type songs which was cool because they were sung by the actors and no instrumentals. It was very affective in that sense as well.
Overall, it was a well done movie in my personal opinion from a film perspective. I enjoyed the indie look because that is personally the style that I am drawn to.
Tyler Chadwick
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