Some Capitol extras on the set of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
We've got some exciting new photos from the filming of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes around the streets of Berlin Strausberg Platz, Karl Marx Allee, and Lichtenberger Strasser.
You can see some extras in vintage style costume, some amazing vintage cars, and more great propaganda art they’re using on the sets!
Clemensia Dovecote, played by Ashley Liao, and Coriolanus Snow, played by Tom Blyth
Some brand new set photos just dropped courtesy of J14andSacTributos. They feature Clemensia Dovecote, played by Ashley Liao, and Coriolanus Snow, played by Tom Blyth, filming in front of the James Simon Gallery in Berlin, being escorted by Peacekeepers down the steps of what is probably The Academy. This could be the scene from the book where Clemmie and Coryo are asked to leave class and report to Dr. Gaul’s office with their proposal about making the games more interesting. Which means poor Clemmie will not be smiling for very long.
Clemensia Dovecote, played by Ashley Liao, and Coriolanus Snow, played by Tom BlythPossibly being escorted to Dr. Gaul's lab?
Exclusive From The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes set! This 10th Hunger Games propaganda poster was photographed when they were filming at Landschaftspark-Nord, Duisburg, Germany back in August and sent to us by someone who wishes to remain anonymous.
You can see there are 13 stars on the poster - possibly representing the 12 districts and the larger star perhaps for the winner, or for the Capitol? District 13 was supposedly "destroyed" at this point in the story. There are also 12 wings on the ring.
The style is directly inspired by German propaganda of the 1930’s.
For example, above is the actual cover of the program for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, an extremely controversial Olympics (look it up- it’s fascinating).
Before we were a fan site we created original art about The Hunger Games series, especially propaganda art referencing vintage German, Soviet, and North Vietnamese propaganda, so these aspects of the production design are always extra exciting for us to see! Fun fact: the Mockingjay production team used a modified version of one of our earliest Hunger Games pieces in the Mockingjay films.
More photos from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes set can be found here, here.
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.”
The Academy uniforms for the film consist of a crimson jacket and pants, with a kilt-like skirt over top. The skirt looks like a combo of a kilt, a Roman battle skirt, a spartan solider’s uniform and a Greek fustanella. They’re also really leaning into the color red. Red was often used by ancient Greeks and Romans to signify wealth and prestige, and also to honor Mars the god of war. I’m sure costume designer Trish Summerville has interesting stories behind her choices and I can’t wait to find out the details.
You can see some ladies at the top of the stairs in vintage clothing, and a tiny peek of ladies in vintage at the bottom of the screen near the plants. Could they be parents? Or maybe teachers/professors?
It appears that Francis Lawrence makes a little cameo but I can’t be 100% sure it’s him. What do you think? Maybe they’re about to film Tom as Coriolanus running up the stairs of Heavensbee Hall for the reaping. IS TOM DOWN THERE WITH YOU, FRANCIS??
There’s an AM logo on the entry doors, along with a visitors sign. At first I though it must be a logo for The Academy! But it could also be a logo for the Altes Museum though I couldn’t find that particular logo anywhere on their website or social media. And you wouldn’t think they’d leave it visible in the scene if it wasn’t intentional. We’ll have to wait and see!
This concludes our obsessive deep dive into The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes set video. What did I miss?? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will debut in theaters November 17, 2023.
We’ve finally got our first blurry pictures of Tom Blyth in costume on set as Coriolanus Snow with his signature blond curls! This is at the Britzer Garten in Berlin where they’re filming the Capitol Zoo scenes.
In these photos we also see some Peacekeepers, Capitol citizens in their 1930’s-looking vintage finery, and other Academy students or mentors.
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Some Capitol extras on the set of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes;)
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