We got a sweet little gift the other day in the form of some video from The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes film set in Germany (thanks to @miha_berlin). So let’s over-analyze the video together, shall we?! 

This was filmed at the Altes Museum in Berlin. We can see from the golden plaque that they’re using this location for Heavensbee Hall at The Academy.

The biggest thing that stood out to me was the Academy students/mentor uniforms. In the book on Reaping day the mentors are wearing their own clothing, not their uniforms - Tigris remakes an old shirt of Coriolanus’ father for him to wear, and he gets a little jealous of Sejanus’ fine suit. So, either this sequence is not reaping day OR they’re shooting exteriors of people entering the hall on reaping day and we can’t see any mentors in this shot. Maybe they’re filming this scene where Coriolanus enters The Academy on reaping day:

“The grand staircase up to the Academy could hold the entire student body, so it easily accommodated the stream of officials, professors, and students headed for the reaping day festivities.”