Planning, filming, editing - The Breakfast Club

Before filming could take place planning needed to be done. Doing this would save us time when going out to filming and would also give us time to think about how we were going make the crucial element of the car look lifelike and what type of shot was for a particular scene. During planning time we watched the actual opening of The Breakfast Club several time so we could note down the type of clothing the different characters wore as it said something about their social background. 'The princess' was dressed in pink, in contrast to 'The Basketcase' who was dressed in all black, from this we as a group could tell that the character dressed in all black was anti-social and the character who wore pink was very feminine. By planning what we was going to do before filming we as a group was able to develop our understanding of the characters which would help when we would come to portraying them. We also created a digital storyboard which we had with us while filming to remind us what came next and what shot type it was.

When we went out to film thing went smoothly because we had planned before hand. The tripod meant we were able to get the steady shots featured in the film. However when filming the toy cars we had to make sure they were close to the camera lense to make them life like, but we also wanted it to be a still shot because that was how it was in the original, so we had to make sure we had a steady hand while filming the cars. Although planning meant we'd saved time from deciding on what shot it was , we did not get all our video takes in one day as we had difficulties with filming the cars.

Editing was one of my favourite part of the process in creating out Breakfast Club remake, this is because it was where all our work would come together and ultimately see the similarities with our version to the original. Editing did not take as long as I expected because when we went out to film we made sure that we had one video clip of each shot reducing the confusion of having several takes of the same shot and going through each clip and analysing which would be the best to put in our remake. During the editing process we were able to put things in our remake that were not possible while filming such as the universal distribution logo and the credit. Having our storyboard while editing made it easy for us to tell what people came next in the order of titles rather then constantly referring back to the actual video. Adding music to the remake brought the clip together more as it became more interesting and tempting to watch. My favourite part was being able to add a voice over because it rounded off our remake as we did not have much dialogue in it anyways. I also enjoyed putting on an American accent!

 

 

 -Katherine hard at work editing our remake! Eeek!

 


 -Our remake almost ready to upload!!!!