Screening Report
SCORE: 80
Name: Abeer Al Mouaqqet
Date: January-6th-2014
Screening Report #3
Cinematography in The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games movie is considered as a traditional piece of contemporary cinematography and a modern blockbuster. The world premiere was dated on March 12, 2012, and it was originally released in Los Angeles. With help of directing efforts of Color Force Studio and Gary Ross, as well as distributing efforts of Lionsgate Studio, the filmmaking team succeeded in adapting the novel by Suzanne Collins called “The Hunger Games”, a work that made Collins extra popular and recognizable across the globe. Within 142 minutes of official running time, the audience is capable to watch the faces of young and perspective actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth, In the meantime, the casting was also expanded by experienced and famous actors of the American cinematography, including Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz (The Hunger Games, 2012). The screenplay, of course, was designed in compliance with the original book and with direct support of Suzanne Collins. Formally, under the budget of official $78 million, box office of “The Hunger Games” was extremely optimistic and payable with getting $691 million of profit. The reception of the movie by public and critics was not very high, even though the IMDB rating of today equals to 7.2 points out of 10, which means we deal with a good and well-directed science fiction adventure movie.
The central plot of the film is grounded on the book’s concept: there is the near post-apocalyptic future, where people of the lower social well-being have to live in the special districts controlled by the authoritarian government. From year to year, the government picks up the decent adolescents and children from each twelve districts and puts them into the dog-eat-dog environment: a deadly competition in the special area, which is broadcast across the whole country
Name: Abeer Al Mouaqqet
Date: January-6th-2014
Screening Report #3
Cinematography in The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games movie is considered as a traditional piece of contemporary cinematography and a modern blockbuster. The world premiere was dated on March 12, 2012, and it was originally released in Los Angeles. With help of directing efforts of Color Force Studio and Gary Ross, as well as distributing efforts of Lionsgate Studio, the filmmaking team succeeded in adapting the novel by Suzanne Collins called “The Hunger Games”, a work that made Collins extra popular and recognizable across the globe. Within 142 minutes of official running time, the audience is capable to watch the faces of young and perspective actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth, In the meantime, the casting was also expanded by experienced and famous actors of the American cinematography, including Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz (The Hunger Games, 2012). The screenplay, of course, was designed in compliance with the original book and with direct support of Suzanne Collins. Formally, under the budget of official $78 million, box office of “The Hunger Games” was extremely optimistic and payable with getting $691 million of profit. The reception of the movie by public and critics was not very high, even though the IMDB rating of today equals to 7.2 points out of 10, which means we deal with a good and well-directed science fiction adventure movie.
The central plot of the film is grounded on the book’s concept: there is the near post-apocalyptic future, where people of the lower social well-being have to live in the special districts controlled by the authoritarian government. From year to year, the government picks up the decent adolescents and children from each twelve districts and puts them into the dog-eat-dog environment: a deadly competition in the special area, which is broadcast across the whole country
References: Brown, B. (2013). Cinematography: Theory and Practice. Waltham, MA: CRC Press. Egan, K. (2012). The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion. London: Scholastic Inc. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunger-Games-Illustrated-Companion/dp/0545422906 Gray, G. (2010). Cinema: A Visual Anthropology. New York, NY: Berg. Henthorne, T. (2012). Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. The Hunger Games (2012). International Movie Database, IMDb, retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/. AMAZING! SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT. I made a couple of suggestions in yellow. There is a tendency to use long sentences connected by semi-colons.. watch that. You can use a – to connect thoughts but it is considered questionable as well. I use it a lot in my writing. So mainly just some grammar issues remain, but really a big improvement. Score: 80