Shot by shot remake task: Our own film

The Breakfast Club (Original)

The Breakfast Club (Our Version)

Two weeks ago we were told that our task would be to film a remake of the opening 5 minutes of The Breakfast Club. At first I thought that it would be very hard for us to be able to do this properly because we do not have the equipment like real cars but after doing some thinking with the rest of my group we came up with the idea of using green screen. At first we had decided to use toy cars to represent the cars used in the original film but we then decided that it would be more technical to use green screen. This would also mean that our film would look more professional. After watching quite a few YouTube clips on tutorials about how to use green screen we started filming. I found filming the easiest part of the film but afterwards we had to edit our footage to the images we had downloaded. Editing was much more difficult than filming. We spent a few hours editing our footage but when we were finished it looked better than I expected it too.

In the original film the opening version has a lot of different shot types and angles which some were very difficult for us to film. In our own version we have not filmed all of the scenes that were in the original and this was because we could not find places in our college that looked similar. In the original film the parents and children were actually filmed in a car next to the school. As we did not have access to 4 different cars, we had to improvise and use green screen. I think that our film is very similar to the original. As we spent a lot of time editing our film, it does look like the people are sitting in the cars and I think this looks better than what we would have done with the toy cars. Overall I think by filming this, we learnt a lot about what we are capable of achieveing. Also that if we do want to achieve something that looks good then we have to put a lot of time into it.