In our group we decided on the film ‘Juno’ to remake the opening scenes as a practise piece. We tried to match our surroundings to the film as best as we could but we had to work with what we had a lot of the time, therefore we had to make a few changes according to what was possible to film and what wasn’t.
To act out the parts of Juno we made sure that I had all the same props and was dressed the same to make it as identical to the original thing as possible. Most of the scenes were quite easy to film but it was hard to find places suitable to film. We managed to get most of the important scenes done but a few were missing. We improvised with the missing parts by using some of the same shots twice but zooming in so it looks completely different.
Before we started filming, we make a timeline of every shot and everything that happens in that shot so that we knew what we were doing and how long every shot had to be. We also made a storyboard to take around with us when we were filming so that we could draw sketches and label them to make what we had to do clearer. We also watched the original opening scenes many times before hand. We had a few ideas of how we were going to film certain parts but we had to improvise a lot a think of ways to make it more effective whilst we were filming. The timeline and our planning helped us a lot.
We filmed the whole thing over two days. This caused us a few problems because the weather was different and you could see the difference when comparing the shots taken on either day. However, it would have to do as we had a limited time to do it in. When we were editing, we managed to make this change in weather less obvious by changing the brightness of the scenes.
When we were editing the scenes we found that we could match it to the timing of the original video quite well as when we were filming we had got most of the timing right. However, because we had a few scenes missing, this affected the timing a great deal. Although, we did make up for this by changing the scenes to make them look different and the using the same ones twice.
We found it quite difficult to make the text look the same when adding in the credits as in the original film, the writing changes colour and is in a very original font. We made the text look as close to the actual thing as possible by having the same text but in different colours appear one after the other to make it look like it was changing colour. It was hard to make sure the text was in the same place as the one before so sometimes the text looked as though it was moving but we thought this added to the effect and made it better.
On the rare occasion that we had a scene that was not timed correctly, we fixed this in the editing by speeding up or slowing down the scene to make it fit. We also corrected the camera zoom by zooming in when editing where appropriate.
Overall I thought the planning, filming and editing of our remake of ‘Juno’ went well, as we were able to fix any major problems with our scenes in the editing and make the less important mistakes less obvious. If I were to do it all over again, I would have taken more time to film it, to make sure the weather was the same and all the shots looked as good as possible, but as this was just a practise piece, I thought we did well, working as a group and getting the task completed.
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