The Hunger Games Movie

books always have smooth cameras......


Anyway I keep hearing this movie is pretty decent, not that excited about shakey camera in battles though.


Cause I love fight scenes.
 
Is it just a shaky camera, or a filming technique?

There's one technique that involves moving the camera in unison with someone's action, for example if there's a fist fight then the camera moves back and forth same as the fists. Hard to explain.
 
Mario4Ever said:
There was no shaky camera in the book....
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Yeah, but the book was kind of lame in comparison with the movie, so it all evens out.



Anyway, the shaky camera is actually used to really good effect (when it's used at all), making the battle scenes as chaotic and disorienting to the audience as they are to Katniss. It really helps the viewer get into the film and see it from the characters' perspectives.
 
I felt the camera was shaky throughout the movie though, not just the battle scenes
 
I never read the book but I can tell that major changes were made that made the movie kind of crappy.
 
The characters in the movie feels static, somehow, not dynamic. Is the book the same? It's been w while since I read it.

Also, the shaky camera makes it hard to see the setting of the District Katniss is living in. The shaky camera is present throughout the movie, not just in battle sequences.
 
I didn't even keep track of the characters' names. It's just the transition from book to movie wasn't properly done.

Ornithologist Mario said:
Also, the shaky camera makes it hard to see the setting of the District Katniss is living in. The shaky camera is present throughout the movie, not just in battle sequences.
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I hate the shaky camera, I couldn't focus on anything when that happen. If they are going to shake the camera, they should at least have some grip on the camera because it seemed like they just fling it around by the strap. What would of been better is they use the same technique that was deployed on the charging bear scene in Prince Caspien.
 
Huh, and some characters were different in appearance than what I expect, especially Rue. However, it doesn't bother me a tiny bit.

I'm not a big fan of the shaky camera. It's hard for me to focus on the scene. I suppose it's supposed to make the viewer fell like he or she is in the movie as well, but everything is so blurry. It's hard to see the setting in some places and what is going on during a fight.
 
I bet you they purposely did that so viewers won't be able to see the low budget aspects of the scene
 
Maybe, considering that I read on Wikipedia that the budget limited the movie somewhat (there are citations to those statistics as well, supporting this fact).