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. 

Director Case Study

John Hughes

http://tinyurl.com/hqlc52o - Voki

John Hughes was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter that died at the age of 59. He was born February 18th, 1950 and died on August 6th, 2009. Hughes was know for his work on teen films and helped numerous actors to launch their career. He has directed and/or scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including; Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Trains, Planes and Automobiles (1987), Uncle Buck (1989), Home alone (1990) and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

He moved around a quite lot when he was little, and when his family moved to Northbrook, Illinois, his father found work selling roof materials. There, He attended Glenbrook North High School, which gave him inspiration for the films that made his reputation in later years. He began his active career from 1970-2009, but he retired from the public eye and moved back to the Chicago area in 1994. He was considerably shaken by John Candy's sudden death of a heart attack that same year. his friend, Vince Vaughn says, "He talked all about how much he loved Candy-if Candy had lived longer, I think John would have made more films as a director."

Since his films are about teenagers at school times, in his opening sequence, typically, he always shows a school and how life at school would look like - with a pinch of comedy in it. Also, there are lots of dialogue between the parents and their children (student) on the opening scene. And the way he take a shot of a building, it is always in the same angle; from the distance, and not centred - always at an angle from the left. He re-use actors on a couple of his last film. Like, John Candy, he's in his film twice, and also little Macaulay Culkin starred 3 of his films.


What I have learnt

Through this task, I have been able to recognise how a producer do their film professionally in their own style, and how other producers has got their own style as well. I now also know how to add a little bit of comedy in an opening sequence to make it more interesting to watch. John Hughes has a great sense of humor, in my opinion, and I think I'm going to use that idea for my opening sequence, so it won't look so boring to watch. Although, I might not use a lot of dialogue straight away on my opening sequence, cause it's way easier to do without, but I'll try it anyways to see the difference so then I can compare.

Producers and Distributors

What I have learnt

During this task, I've done lots of research and now I know more about producers and distributors films. It helped me to understand / see the difference between major and minor producers and distributors. And I realised that lots of the major producers and distributors are based in America.

Conventions of an Opening Sequence

This is our opening sequence analysis on the film "21 Jump Street" and "An Education".

Task Three from sam palmer on Vimeo.
#Credit to Sam's work.

What I have learnt

From this task, I now know how to analyse an opening sequence, although my analysis for this task is still not good enough, in my opinion. I am able to talk about more than just the typography and sounds, but also the lighting, the position of the shot, and some noticeable things on the scene.

Creative Task 2 - Match On Action

The storyboard:

This is a scene about Abil's first day at school; experienced a really embarrassing experience. Using Match On Action.

First Shot

Abil's First Day

What went well

• Audio 

The non-diegetic sound that we put into the clip went very well; matches the scenes. Think using different sounds made it better and more interesting. The diegetic sound, compare to the first task we've done, is less. We put non-diegetic sounds throughout this clip.

• Shot

The clips that we put in together went really good and looked fluid. The cuts were on point, which made it look like it happened on the same time and we filmed this clip pretty fast and easy as well.

Problems

The problems that we've had:

1. After we filmed the first shot, we had problem uploading the clips to the computer. Because of that, we need to film again with a different camera.
2. The first scenes we've done are not met our satisfaction, so we delete all of it and made a new one with an improved story board.
3. We overlapped clips. so when we went editing, we need to carefully picked the right one to edit.

All in all, we don't think we need to do another shot for this task, since this clip is already looking good.

What I have learnt

From this task, I get to learn different new technique; how to shot match on action. This one is easier to do, because you just need to record short clips and no conversation. Although now i realised that background noise is important to look at, cause it could affect the clip, and when editing, putting some non-diegetic sound could make the clip more interesting. We, here, have done some experiment, adding some sort of comedic scene to the clip so it's not all boring, and it's quite fun to do!