Evaluation of "The Breakfast Club" remake

Evaluation

In this blog post I will be evaluating my groups remake to our remake of the film sequence to "The Breakfast Club". Firstly i will be evaluating the process of creating the remake. Firstly our group decided to film the remake in the college as the film sequence is set in a school. Some of the shots were more difficult to film than others due to the fact that there were people constantly walking past the camera therefore we had to reshoot numerous of times for example the wide shot of the college. Also there were some shots such as the one that included "Im eating my head" that were harder to recreate as we couldn't scratch the message into a block of wood, instead we decided to be more creative and use the white boards to draw the on the message, we even shades the outer corners to emphasise on the message only. 

REMAKE SHOT

ORIGINAL SHOT

We also came across lighting difficulties, infant one of our shots had to be retaken due to the bad lighting and that the camera was focusing on another object, therefore this took up more time, however this was resolved quickly. 

I believe our remake was fairly successful due to the fact that our shots were clean and crisp due to the fact that we used a tripod to make the camera stable and to create steady shots. We also attempted to get the exact angles as the one in the original title sequence, for example the pictured shots above. We were also able to create as many shots from the original film sequence as possible to create a remake that would be as identical as possible. 

We used a variety of different shot types that were also in the original such as wide shots, long shots, cut ins, and we were even able to use panning shots such as the locker shot. We also used various different props to create the most authentic remake that we could possibly make, such as small plastic trophies, we zoomed in when filming this shot to make the trophies appear larger then they really were. We also had trouble filming this shot due to the fact there was no trophy case that we could find there fore we improvised by using a windowsill, however the camera tended to focus on the leaves from outside rather than the trophies therefore we had to reshoot in another location, instead we decided to shoot this shot beside a shelf, which had a plain background therefore the camera would just focus on the trophy. 

Regarding mis-en-scene, we used a variety of props to create a quality remake, for example one of the locker scenes in the original there was text written on the lockers, we then decided to use a whiteboard pen to write down the same message on lockers (that were prop lockers) to create the same scene.