![Director – Gary Ross
Gary Ross is known for making the Hunger Games which is one of the most
well known dystopian style of film from
the book series.
“Family entertainment is really very
necessary in our culture. Look how
profitable they are. It's almost not
discretionary. You need to take your family
to the movies.”
“[on minimizing the use of special effects
in directing The Hunger Games (2012)] We
would be doing exactly what the Capitol is
doing if we used 3D. We'd be exploiting
what the book condemns: a mediacentric
society where entertainment in that
culture devolves into spectacle, and that
spectacle evolves into political control.”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/contextresearch1-190203201223/85/Context-research-4-320.jpg)
Context research
- 2. Director – Wes Ball Wes Ball is an American director, known for directing and producing the Maze Runner trilogy among a few three short films that he wrote himself. While my film project won’t be as ambitious as this, I took a lot of inspiration from the setting just after the start of the third movie and the mid point of the second in terms of genre and colour grading. With the point of my project being that it’s an extended trailer, I thought that the trailers for the Maze Runner films were good at building tension and that the story that was going to be told were something to enjoy. One of Wes Ball’s short films is also in this style, an 8 minute long animated short set in the sort is setting that I like. The way the films opens in is quite similar to how I envisioned setting mine up in the scene I thought about including at the start.
- 3. Director – Neil Burger Neil Burger is also an American producer, known for The Illusionist, Interview with the Assassin and the Divergent series. I loved how he introduced the start which I know can test out to see how and if I could use that type of opening for my own project before I have the actual trailer come in. I like how the film, being the first in a series, the camera opens like this and a voiceover narration starting to bring in the basic context and concept to the film and why the world is how we’re seeing it as opposed to what it looks like in the real world today. While it’s something that I haven’t decided for or against on my project, this could be something that could work quite well.
- 4. Director – Gary Ross Gary Ross is known for making the Hunger Games which is one of the most well known dystopian style of film from the book series. “Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.” “[on minimizing the use of special effects in directing The Hunger Games (2012)] We would be doing exactly what the Capitol is doing if we used 3D. We'd be exploiting what the book condemns: a mediacentric society where entertainment in that culture devolves into spectacle, and that spectacle evolves into political control.”
- 5. Dystopian themes Characteristics of a Dystopian Society: • Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society. • Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted. • A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. • Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. • Citizens have a fear of the outside world. • Citizens live in a dehumanized state. • The natural world is banished and distrusted. • Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad. • The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world. The Dystopian Protagonist • often feels trapped and is struggling to escape. • questions the existing social and political systems. • believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives. • helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.
- 6. • Science fiction is often based on scientific principles and technology. • Science fiction may make predictions about life in the future. • Science fiction often deals with aliens or with life on other worlds. • Science fiction can comment on important issues in society Sci-Fi Characteristics
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