Research and Planning

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Creative Task 3 - Remake of Coming of Age Film

This is the original opening of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Opening.

And down below here is the remake of the opening scene.



What went well
          The non-diegetic audio, fits in the clip very well. The background noise sounds perfect; we got the same music like the original, and the voice over sounds great. Although the voice over sounds a little bit more quiet compare to the background music, and we had to do a some edits on those. Also, we turned off the background noise from the clips, so we could hear the non-diegetic sounds better.
          The clips are spot on. We had to do 3 takes of each clips, which I think makes it easier for us to improve from the first take, see the difference, and compare them to see which one is better and looks similar to the original.  The zoom is good too, although I think it needs improvements - for our opening sequence; practice to not make jumpy zoom.
          The lighting is great. We used the flash from our phones to make the effect of the study lamp, and another lamp to support the whole lighting. Even though it is a little bit hard to take the shot from the exact same angle like the original clip; it looks great.
         When we do the editing, we had to make the clips and the sounds fits together clip by clip. It took some time to do it, but the result that we get is amazing. We also edit the clips where it zoomed in and out; so to make it look like more of a smooth zoom.

Although we struggled while we're doing the shooting - when we try to take the shot from the exact same angle like the original, and we struggled while editing - because the iMovie wasn't working properly, I think our remake of the opening scene has come out really good.

What I have learnt
Through this task, I have learnt on how to shot from a different angle and practice on how to zoom in and out without it being so jumpy. I also learn a lot while editing, even though we struggled a lot to figure out other ways to do the sound editing, I learnt on how to add effects to the clips and I have improve my editing skills. Using simple things as camera flash to imitate a study lamp, has also made me realise that we don't need to use over the top things / props to remake the opening scene. 

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