Research: Practical Remake Activity - Evaluation

Evaluation

I would say that our practical remake was quite successful with a few less successful things

My group and I decided to do The Breakfast Club as it did seem like the most achievable one to do in the limited time we have and make it look as realistic as possible. The planning was quite simple to do as most of the shots consisted of either wide, long or close ups of The Breakfast Club high school, yet quite time consuming as each shot was at least 2 to 3 seconds long and every shot had to be recorded on a sheet in order to create a successful remake.

As the first half of the opening sequence consisted of titles over a black screen it was quite simple to do in After Effects however my group were not too familiar with the programs so the editing did take longer than expected, we had to try and guess what type of font was similar to the ones of the title also the colour and the size which was often varied in different scene which was also quite time consuming.

The next portion on the sequence was the various shots around the high school, because we could on shot around the college my group found it quite easy as we could resemble most of the shots for example the scene with the broken lockers we could use the lockers around the college however we couldn’t damage them so we had to improvise and pretend they were damaged. Some props and location we couldn’t really achieve due to limited resources and time like the newspaper scene and the stage. Not everything looked realistic we did have to use a toy car we didn’t really match with the rest of the whole sequence.

If I was to the practical remake again I would do the dialogue bit over as it was very rushed because the time we had left to shoot was small also try and get more actors to play certain roles like we had to females actors playing a father and daughter. Also I would concentrate a little more on the camera movements as some shots were just still where as in the film it was a pan or a track.

Overall I feel like our group were very successful.