EVALUATION
Our group had two opening sequences that we couldn’t chose between. One was ‘Seven’ and the other was ‘Collateral.’ After long consideration, we finally decided to remake ‘Collateral’ as we thought it would be more fun and easier to make.
My group and I allocated a job for each person. So, for example, I had to draw the storyboards and Selina had to figure out the locations and props that we were going to use. Even though we all had a separate jobs, we helped one another as we wanted to make sure everything was right.
Before we started filming, we decided to draw the storyboard. This wasn’t hard, however I mixed 2 shots up near the end of the clip because I was trying to rush. Because I was rushing, the drawings are messy and not as detailed as it would have been if I took my time doing them. When noting down each shot, we re watched the clips several times and made sure all the shots and shot types were listed. Finding the locations and props were easy as the only props used in the original opening sequence was a suitcase and a pair of glasses and the location could have been anywhere that looked like a busy place. We didn’t have costumes other than the glasses as they were not needed. Because of our locations and prop choices, the final clip didn’t look as realistic as it could have looked if we decided to film in a larger area, or if we had suits to wear.
My group and I came up with many creative ideas and had lots of fun editing and filming our remake. We took it in turns to edit and helped each other out when someone forgot how to cut a clip or add a title. In the filming process, we all had a chance to say and demonstrate what we thought would be a good idea to make our remake look more similar to the ‘Collateral’ opening sequence.
Making the title credits was harder than I thought it would be as we forgot the order that the credits are supposed to go. Also, we wanted the actors to be seen however wherever we placed the credits, the actors faces got covered. So we had to place the credits in odd positions. In the end, we all agreed that those positions go well with the tone of the film as it is edgy and not seamless.
We decided on the fonts, font sizes and typeface last. We wanted all the titles and credits to look similar and not to be camouflaged with the video so we chose to make the font colour white and have the same sizes and fonts. Our font wasn’t crazy and all out there as we wanted to have a classy tone in the film. I think that we succeeded at that.
One of the problems we had was time. We had so many ideas however we didn’t have enough time to use those ideas in our remake. I think this was due to the fact that we had to re-film scenes as we didn’t think they were as good as they could be. Also, the actors positions weren’t in the camera frame the way we wanted it to be, so we had to re-film that too.
Another problem we had was that our camera that we were using wasn’t focusing on the actors faces. We had to re-film most scenes because of the unfocused images. In the end, our most focused scenes were still not perfectly focused so we just had to stick with them for our final cut.
My group and I learned that we have to try our best not to laugh while someone is acting as it makes the actor lose focus. This was a mojor problem we had and the only way we could fix it was to make the filmer turn around and not watch the actor acting.
In the editing process, I learned how to flip the image to the opposite side. I needed to do that because one of our scenes was breaking the 180 degree rule.
There are some things that my group and I would do next time instead of what we actually did in our practical remake. If our group would have any problems with the technical work, we would go straight to the technicians and ask for help. Also, I prefer being behind the scenes instead of in front of the camera so I will have to hope someone will want to act when we have to film a opening title sequence.
If I were to do this again, I would have chosen a more challenging opening sequence such as ‘Seven’ as it seems the most interesting title sequence to film and edit. Also, I love a challenge so this would have been the most enjoyable to make.
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