BLOG POST 22 - Shot by Shot Remake Evaluation

In class my group and I remade a title sequence for the film The Breakfast Club, to do this we had to create a storyboard and then act it out, and film it accordingly. To begin with we watched the title sequence of the original film a couple times to note down the different shots that we would have to shot in the amount of time that we were given, this wasn't hard to do as in the title sequence for The Breakfast Club all the shots can be clearly identified, meaning that it was easy to understand what shots we had to film. When we were storyboarding the shots we wanted to replicate the original title sequence as closely as we could but it turned out to be a bit of a struggle as we couldn't replicate the shots exactly or we couldn't film some of the shots at all as we didn't have the correct props or locations but we tried our best. There is no characters featured in the title sequence  which made it easier for us as we would've needed costumes, however due to The Breakfast Club being set in a school it would be easy for us to replicate the clothing worn as we could just wear our own normal clothing. When we were editing our group took turns in creating the title sequence which made it easier as we could all put forward our ideas, this made it easier as it wasn't just one person doing all of the work. Whilst choosing the font, I had a clear idea of what it should look like and I wanted it to look as much like The Breakfast Club as possible. In the original title sequence they used an orange colour for the font, which I tried to replicate when editing. We couldn't find the exact font that was used in the original title sequence so we used something very similar, this gave a powerful impact as it was a lot like what was in the title sequence of The Breakfast Club, the font suited the film as it gave a calm tone to the film which was expressed through some of the characters. For the tilte sequences it was edited separately to the film, the titles were in the middle of a black screen with music overlapped, this had a strong impact as the music is very motivational and it makes the viewer watching feel powerful. If I could do this task all over again I would try to replicate the original shots filmed more closely to have a stronger impact. Whilst editing the title shots I would aim to make them move more seamlessly into one another.