RESEARCH - Practical Remake Activity Evaluation

Firstly, I thought it would be important to note that due to sickness I did not attend the lesson in which the rest of my group begun creating the remake activity, which means I was unable to write about the filming process as I was not there during this part of the activity. However during the following lesson I was able to participate once again, and did a lot of the editing in this activity and helped further with the creation of the remake.

During this activity our group decided to remake the opening of the film 'The Breakfast Club'. Initially I was very excited to do this as The Breakfast Club has been one of my favourite films for some time now and I knew it quite well. The Breakfast Club's opening consists of a voiceover by one of the main characters, which is being spoken over three second cuts of different settings within the location of the school. To recreate this part, our group went around various parts of our college and shot in different locations to attempt to replicate the film opening. This fairly easy to do as our locations was similar to that in the film, as we were in a school. This meant we were able to film our college canteen, lockers, litter and graffiti, just like that in the opening.

Although we were able to shoot in similar locations, there were still a few differences in our opening scene. This is due to our group being limited in our props. For example, we were unable to film inside an actual car, and so it was difficult to show that the two actors in our group were inside a car. Although this could potentially be difficult for the audience to understand, my group gave our best attempt with the limited props which we did have, and substituted the car for a red toy car.

As we were pushed for time, our remake of The BreakFast Club was not immaculate and there was still more things which our group could have added to our opening to make it even better. If we had more time in this activity I would have filmed even more of the opening, but due for the lack of time we were only able to recreate the first couple of minutes. Regardless of the lack of time and limited props, our opening scene is still quite a good replication of The Breakfast Club, and overall myself and the rest of my group are quite happy with our outcome.