21. Practical remake activity: Evaluation

21. Evaluation:

The film opening we recreated was the title sequence of Gone Girl.                   

We watched the title sequence thoroughly to see what different shots there were and how many, we wrote a list of the shot types and then we looked at all the titles and wrote them in order and created a storyboard to follow. One of the problems I would say we faced was the time management and not being able to get each shot by shot, for instance we didn’t get the shot of the canal/beach as it was too far and all our time would has been spent trying to get the right shot so we decided to skip that one out, however I believe that the shots were accurate and we incorporated each shot type that was written but not each shot of the location but that was okay because we did have enough footage to set the location and the major parts of the title sequence. We shot quite close to the college and used majority of the building their to make the shot by shot remake, the building looked run down just like the buildings in the title sequence and the clock tower looked the same too. Another problem I would say was that time of day wasn’t the same as the title sequence involved night time with a dark and quiet atmosphere, while angel was loud and in daylight. We didn’t need costumes as the characters we dressed in casual wear and no props were needed either and setting up the camera and knowing the shots were the easiest parts as we learnt them during out prelim.

We looked at different angles and each gave our ideas when shooting the first scene of the man stoking his wife's hair and finally got the right angle and we stayed to detail and even the spacing between the voice over of the man, this was so we could set the same tone and ease of his voice. This helped maintain the genre and no let it fade away from the story's plot.

For editing I would say the title credits weren’t too hard but very time consuming so each one looked similar and we spent quite a long time trying to get the right font. Premiere and After Effects were quite easy to use after a while and we were able to do the voice over really quick.

One thing I would say we need to work on is time and making sure we do the most important things first so we don't leave anything vital out.