Blog Task 22: Evaluation of Remake

Evaluation of Remake

For this task we had to remake our version of a chosen title sequence/opening sequence of a movie.
We all decided as a group to do a remake of the Breakfast Club. This was because its opening sequence appealed to us the most and seemed like the most fun to do out of the sequences.
In addition the title sequence was set in school, so just like the title sequence we decided to record our remade shots in our college.

However throughout the evaluation you will see my personal pro's and cons of our remake coherently. The evaluation will be balanced out in terms of what we managed to keep relatively similar and successful throughout the remake such as similar set locations, and what went wrong when recording such as lighting issues, focusing the lens and people walking in front of our recording set.

Remaking the shots:
Remaking the shots was the main task throughout the entire title sequence. We had to ensure that the shots that we recorded or took photos of were similar to those seen in the original title sequence. This is because, us doing so would make it really successful and more appealing to both the editors and the viewers.
Remaking the shots were very difficult though. This is because, although we had most of the shots needed in order to make sure that the remake was similar. Some of the props or locations necessary were not available.
We overcame most of these challenges by simply using similar props.
An example would be the trophy case, we could not find a trophy case available in our college so we instead decided to get trophies of our own and place them near a window.


The whole remake was generally successful. This was because we managed to cover almost all of the shots seen in the remake that we set out to record(This being the first part of the remake, not the second including the in-car shots).
Our shots were generally very focused and looked similar to what was seen in the original Breakfest Club opening.

We tried to be as confident with our recording as possible, ensuring that scenes would look very professional and not armature- this worked well with the tripod we used to ensure the camera was steady.

Camera Shots:
As seen in the original version of the Breakfast Club opening sequence, they used a variety of different shot types in order to create what they wanted. Due to us wanting to keep the same gist of the opening sequence we used the same variety of shot types.
Just like in the opening sequence, we too used wide shots to introduce the location;being the college. This worked well for our remake just as it did in the original.
We used panning shots in order to ensure that the scene where the locker has graffiti on it and is panning down in the original was done the same in our remake.
Most of the remake shots are long shots of images as seen in the original.This worked well as we decided not to record shots the way we wanted to-this would defy the idea of us creating an accurate remake.
We used zoom shots in our remake as well in order for us to resolve certain issues. An example would be the previously spoken about, trophies. We did not have access to a huge trophy display nor did we have the same size/amount of trophies- the way we resolved this was by zooming in on the trophies to make them appear bigger than they were in order to contrast well with the remake as a whole.

As seen in the image above, Ersila is trying to ensure the remade shot is similar to the original.

Mis-en-Scene:
In terms of Mis en scene for the film we made sure that all of the props seen in the original opening sequence, and were being included in our remake were relatively similar.
An example of props used would be the trophies that we used in our remake.
We also made use of drawing on the lockers with a black board marker pen in order to accurately represent the image seen in the original opening sequence.
The location for mis-en-scene would be us recording in our college using a variety of different areas such as the cafeteria, the main entrance and the class rooms.

Lastly; the props we used for the rubbish on the stairs were very accurate. We decided to get a bunch of wrappers, some dirty papers. We also did a very good job on recreating the theatre shot with the "Senior Spirit Soars" banner. Ersila created it by making it via photoshot on the computer-she did a really good job!


 







The main criticsm i have for our remake is ofcorse not recording all of the shots that were in the original.
And it at times, not matching the music/audio like in the orginial opening sequence.
Thanks for reading my blog evaluating our remake!
Be sure to check out the actual remake here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OakBNEuXFQU