Book 1 Project

Idea #1: ACTION FIGURES

                To sell The Hunger Games to a die-hard fan audience, Katniss and Peeta action figures will be created. With their bodies being so beat up and them nearly being killed because they are literally “fighting to the death” there needs to be something to portray these heroic figures! To start out, there will just be Peeta and Katniss, simply because they are the main characters, the stars of the whole shebang, the tributes from District 12! If these two characters prove to be popular and sell well, more characters may be created such as Gale or Rue. “Instead my hands go to my hairdo, the one area of my body my prep team had been told to leave alone. My fingers stroke the silky braids my mother so carefully arranged” (Collins 63). Katniss and Peeta will both be portrayed as their plain, District 12 selves because that is who they truly are. Katniss will have her braid straight down the middle of her back. Peeta will be big and strong as described in the book. “All those years of having enough to eat and hauling bread trays around have made him broad-shouldered and strong” (Collins 41).

Idea #2: THE HUNGER (VIDEO) GAMES

                With kids so obsessed with being online and chatting on xbox, what better way to advertise a book than make a video game out of it? “The game has taken a twist. The fire was just to get us moving, now the audience will get to see some real fun” (Collins 175). This is exactly what the video game would allow people to do! They could control what obstacles are thrown at each of the Hunger Games tributes and control how they respond or react to these obstacles. This game will target the younger audience, the kids who want to be right in the action. “Probably this whole segment of the woods has been armed with precision launchers that are concealed in trees or rocks. Somewhere, in a cool and spotless room, a Gamemaker sits at a set of controls, fingers on the triggers that could end my life in a second” (Collins 175).

Idea #3:  THE SIMULATION

                This next idea will be somewhat like a Simulation Arena where fans can go and tour the horrible sight in which the Hunger Games with Katniss and Peeta and all the others took place. “The arenas are historic sites preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in the reenactments” (Collins 144-145). There are hopes to make something almost exactly like this, except in real life, obviously. There will be one specifically from the first book of the series. This will target the wealthier audience, who are die-hard fans and willing to travel to really get a better idea of the book. The money to build the simulated area will come from profits made from the book and upcoming movie with Suzanne Collins’ permission. The site could take years to perfect, but we must do whatever it takes! “We’re on a flat, open stretch of ground. A plain of hard-packed dirt. Behind the tributes across from me, I can see nothing, indication either a steep downward slope or even a cliff. To my right lights a lake. To my left and back, sparse piney woods” (Collins 148). The sight will be modeled off of how it is described in the book above. It will be so real you will think you are actually in the book/movie! The arena will look something like these: