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!!!!

Examples of Sub-genres in teen films

Teen films

horror - Scream, The Roommate
Rom-Com - She's all That, it's a boy girl thing
action- Kick Ass, the amazing spider man
Musical - Hairspray

All these sub genres are seen in teen films mostly teen films mix in romance and comedy. All teen films follow the specific stereotypes and representations of their characters no matter what the genre of the film is.

Note for group teen film:

Decide on a genre that we will work well for us when we do our film. 

example of sound in teen film

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The sound at the start of this film I used  first to show how the character Cat is represented(the loner, outsider). This is done by the way in which the creators have used the character's cars. You see when Cat is first scene she is listening to punk rock music (bad reputation, hit girls) while the girls in the other car are listening to very popular pop music.

extension blogging task - sound

Task One

 

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Task 2

 

 

 

There are a number of different effects of using different sounds. Mainly the music and/or sound can be used to start the atmosphere of the start of the film. For example in some films the opening scene has very slow and soothing music at the start of the film is creates a very calm safe atmosphere however when a film starts with very upbeat music there is a vey positive and happy atmosphere which is set.

 

Blogging Task-sound

1. Our task was to take a opening sequence from a teen film and add our own sound to it using creative commons and sound effects. It is important for us to use copyright free music as you cannot use copyright music and it is better for our film if we design our own sounds and music

2.   Creative commons- The concept behind creative commons is to be able to find different sounds an music which is copyright free.

Steps to using creative commons

Storylines and plot in teen dramas/ Binary oppositions

Binary oppositions refers to two things that oppose each other. For example dark and light, up and down, yes and no.

TWILIGHT:
Twilight follow Bella, a teenage girl who moves in with her father after her mother and step father hit the road. The film follows her journey in trying to fit in with the kids at school and falling for a vampire.
BINARY OPPOSITIONS IN CLIP:

-Predator vs Prey
-Big hot city vs Small dull town
-Anti- social vs Social
 Bella does not say much when she arrives which shows the withdraw she has towards her father. She is also persistent in her request not to be featured in the school paper which shows how she does not like to be the center of attention.



GREASE:
The opening Grease follows a group of teenager on their first day back at school, in particular a couple dealing with having to be away from one another.

BINARY OPPOSITIONS IN CLIP:
 -Macho man vs Innocent girl
The boys are seen hyper as they arrive at school which demonstrates their eager manor, dressed in all back with slicked hair which in those times was essential if you were to be perceived as a real man. Furthermore the boys have a conversation about cars which is a very typical topic boys choose to speak about. On the other hand the girls wear very feminine clothing with subtle colours showing their delicate manor. 

Attack the Block

Attack the block is a film where an alien invasion has taken place and a young group of people come up with a plan to kill them.

BINARY OPPOSITIONS IN CLIP:

bad vs good

loud vs quiet

-vulnerable vs confident

Firstly the lady is alone whereas there are at least 5 boys in the group, this makes her vulnerable as she has no companion to protect if she were to be in danger. Furthermore when she hears the noise in the alleyway she flinches demonstrating her awareness which the audience can interpret as her being paranoid. On the other hand the boys perform a robbery against the woman showing them as brave as being on the streets of London could see them getting caught anytime by the police or even passerby's. 

Comparison of The Breakfast Club opening sequence (Original and Re-make)

Both the original opening sequence and my groups re-make start with the Universal logo which comes onto screen. The music for the original comes in after 4 seconds the re-make's music does not come in until the credits have started to appear on screen.

 
Title sequence is rather similar mainly due to the order of the credits the re-make which the same as the order in the original. However the font and size of the credits in the re-make is very different from the original.

  Unlike in the film we only had four people staring in the re-make whereas the original has seven people staring in the film which were shown in the title sequence.

 

Shot held for 11 seconds in both clips voiceover starting straight away.

The car scenes are also very different as while filming the re-make we did not have access to a real car so had to make use with toy cars. Making it very difficult to make it seem more realistic.

Also in our re-make we did not have much dialogue so our scenes was much shorter than the ones in the film.