The document analyzes the opening scene of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire through its shots, angles, movement, lighting, and narrative elements. The opening uses various shots including establishing, mid, and close-up shots to introduce the setting and main character Katniss. Match on action and shot-reverse-shot are employed in dialogue scenes. The lighting is dark, representing the bleak world. The narrative follows Propp's model, with Katniss as the hero, President Snow as the villain, and other characters filling supporting roles like dispatcher and donor.

1. Hunger Games: Catching Fire Film Opening
Analysis Post Apocalyptic
Shots/Angles/movement
The first shot of the opening scene is an establishing shot. It is a
helicopter view of the setting. It is shown on the screen for quite a long
time and the movement of the camera is slow. It continues to go over the
top of the forest. This introduces to the audience where the film is set.

2. It suddenly cuts to a
mid shot of a person.
The audience doesn’t
know who this person
is yet. This shot
identifies the setting
as well as the person.
Her positioning is
right in the centre so
that the audience’s
eyes are drawn to her
as she is the main
focus.
The third shot
introduces the
character (the main
character, Katniss). It
is a close up of her
so that the audience
can see clearly who
she is and see her
facial expressions.

3. Match on action is used in these two shots. Her turning around to
fire, and then another character introduced telling her to calm
down. The shot on the left is a close up showing the action and the
shot on the right is an over the shoulder shot showing her point of
view. The bow and arrow is still present in the left hand corner to
show it is her. There is a mid shot of the male character (Gale).

4. Shot, reverse shot is
shown when the two
characters exchange
dialogue for the first
time.
Both camera shots are close ups and the angles are
straight onwards.

5. There is a long continuous shot of the two walking
down the stones. It a wide angle shot which shows
them and the scenery. The camera is at a slight low
angle. Match on action is used throughout to
continue the shots at a different angle.

6. It cuts from
a close up
of her
targeting
something
and then it
cuts to an
over the
shoulder
shot to see
her point of
view.

7. This wide shot of Katniss
and Gale going under the
fence is an example of good
composition: it shows
leading lines and rule of
thirds to make the angle
look more interesting.
The last shot is another wide angle view which shows
the two going off into the distance. It is a high angle
shot that looks down on them.

8. Lighting
The lighting in the mise en scene of The Hunger
Game: Catching Fire, is quite dark. There Is a grey
tone/tinge to the scenery. The darkness represents
that the world they live in now is dark, empty and
the people that live there are poor.

9. Narrative and theories
The Hunger Games follows Propp’s theory: that it
has characters to suit each title.
• Hero
• Villain
• Dispatcher
• Donor
• Helper (there is no helper in this film)
• Heroine
• False Hero

10. Hero
Katniss Everdeen
Stereotypically, male characters are usually the
heroes as they are seen as more dominant, brave
and strong, however, Katniss is the main character
who is portrayed as the hero.

11. Villain
Oppositions in the game & president snow
President snow is the
villain as he controls the
games and shows no
sympathy throughout.
The opposition players are also the villains as
they are the enemies.

12. Dispatcher
Cinna
The dispatcher sends the hero off to show
and prove their worth. It is usually the
father who is the dispatcher, in this case it is
designer. He stands by Katniss and boosts
her confidence in the games.
Donor
Haymitch
He helps Katniss – gives advice, prepares
her for the games. He provides her with a
gift on her journey.

13. Heroine
Peeta
The heroine is commonly known as the princess and is usually a
female. In the Hunger Games, Peeta is the heroine.
The heroine is known for falling in love with the hero, just like how
Peeta falls in love with Katniss.

14. False Hero
Seneca Crane
The false hero acts as if they are on the ‘good’ side but actually
takes advantage and betrays the hero.
In this film, Seneca being the game maker, acts as if he is trying to
help the people in the game but instead makes it harder for them
by complicating and disrupting the game system.