Dystopian Set Design In The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games

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Have you ever watched a great dystopian action film that will leave you hanging from your seat? Well, lots of people love a good action film, even if it is corny or cheesy. Most people watch action films involving lots of action, high tech special effects, and sometimes even cheesy romance scenes. Viewers now a days have also been attracted to dystopian themed movies. For example, The Hunger Games is a profound film that greatly fits that description. This is a post-apocalyptic movie set that will leave the audience 's hanging out of their seats. From start to finish, the audience eyes will never leave the movie screen. From the amount of special effects, it would make the audience think it could almost be realistic. The Hunger Games will leave viewers wanting more, and anxiously waiting for the next film to come out. This trilogy …show more content…

it is very important that the set design is designed in a way that the crew and the director have space to move around and are allowed to shoot different angles while filming a movie. Also, good set design helps with the mood and atmosphere of the scene and the whole film. A set designer helps with the director 's vision and the style he or she wants from the film. Production designer Philip Messina has said "he wanted to create a 'retro-futuristic ' look, throwing Depression-era America into the distant future and adding high technology."(theatlantic) The arena where The Hunger Games are held each year, is also used in the game as a way to control the players, their actions, and the type of environment they want it to be. The way it has been designed, is magnificent and a new look for high definition technology. It is amazing how much technology has evolved the last few decades. Considering from the beginning, it was black and white television screens, to colored television screens with all sorts of new visual and special

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