Task 21 - Practical remake activity (Evaluation)

Evaluation Of Practical Remake

For our practical remake activity our group decided to the remake of 'Gone Girl' which is a horror movie. As a group we all decided that 'Gone Girl' will be a suitable remake for our activity. We spend time trying to get each scene and the shots of angles precise whilst planning it. This took loads of time because we kept pausing the actual title sequence of 'Gone Girl' at each scene because we wanted the shots of angles to exactly be the same on our planning storyboard sheet. Furthermore we had to include pictures on our storyboard and as of insufficient time we didn't have the chance to include enough detail during the process of planning the remake. The easy part of this section was picking the actors, as a group we all decided upon the actors which was Chifa and I. Below are examples of our storyboard as you can see we spend a lot of
time planning it.

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From my perspective the most hard and successful part of the filming was the match-cuts we used
towards the end where the male character was looking left and right. This was difficult and successful
because it was the scene where we spent quiet  a bit of time on, where we couldn't get it right. It was not as precise as the title sequence of 'Gone Girl' but it was still successful and very good. 

Example of a match-cut

Also in addition to this, one other successful part of the filming was when we had to film the tower clock. It was really hard because we spend a lot of time trying to balance it. During the filming of the clock we used a fig rig, and the person who was filming started filming from the bottom of the tower clock till the top. They absolutely kept the fig rig still. It was really hard but at the end we successfully completed it.

Bottom of the tower clock.

Top of the tower clock.

In conclusion one thing we can improve as a group could be to use the time much more wisely to add every part of detail. This is important because we missed out on small details whereas these details are important whilst filming. Other than that everything else was perfect and I believe we done extremely well as a group.