CDM 348
Recreating Movie Scenes
in this unit we where tasked with recreating a scene from a well known movie using a single camera. Me and my group came up with the idea of recreating the classic chase scene in Scary movie. We decided this due to there being an array of different type of scenes, such as close ups, distant shots and moving ones. I thought the shot where you first see ghost face was a good shot to recreate due to the moment and the position of the actor, i also liked the shot where drew has to run through the house would be a good, challenging, shot to recreate. This gave us a good challenge with-ought it being to complicated. This scene originally was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans originally so we had a go at recreating it. this scene is shown as one of the starter scenes, it setts the mood of comedy and horror. it follows a girl named Drew (played by Carmon Electra) getting chased by a masked killer but though-out the chase she repeatedly makes extremely bad decisions. The overall mood to the scene is spooky due to the fact it is filmed in night, everything is filmed in a blue-ish light (which typically represents sad emotions) this almost pre warns the audience she will die. They also make it very obvious to us that it is halloween, letting us know its the 'spooky' season. We started of by creating a shot list and then we moved onto creating all the pre production documents so we could move onto filming.
shot list
i started with making a shot list on my own
shooting script
once we had all made are on shot lists we came together to create a shooting script
risk assessment
once the shooting script was done as a group we started doing all the production documents
call sheet
Recce
kit list
the finished edit
Behind The Scenes
evaluation
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My group decided to recreate a one minute clip from Scary movie for our task of recreating movie scenes. We began by first deciding on a movie scene that we wanted to do but would also be a challenge for us. When we had some scenes we asked for one of the mentors' opinions on what they believed to be the best option. Scary movie was a good challenge for us due to there being lots of different shot types, however none of the shots needed lots of equipment so we could do all of it. We had to shoot over two days due to being only able to film at night. At the beginning of the first day we had a very slow start, we took too long on shots for no reason whilst we were trying to figure out our rhythm at filming them but by the end of the evening we were very speedy and efficient at doing our shots. On the second day we ran into the problem that we forgot to check if we were given the panel light's batteries so we had difficulty in shooting because we had to figure out other ways to light up the set. Next time I will make sure that we have the batteries so we don't run into that problem again. Editing was relatively smooth but we had to work around the fact that the house we were filming in wasn't the same as the original movie so at some points we had to change the speed in which Freddy had to run so we could match the timing to the original shot in that shot that we had to recreate i held ati’s tablet (with the scene) in my hand and called out two different cues for freddie and matty to be able to follow. We did this so the two actors new when to run we also had a cue for when ati had to turn the camera with freddie’s running. . Due to this some of the scenes don't seem to make sense but it was a creative decision so we could be accurate. Editing was quite simple, not all the shots match perfectly but most of them work quite well and are very similar to the source material. Unfortunately we didn't realise that we were missing one scene that is quite short so we had to reshoot that and it looked incorrect to the rest of the scenes but we did what we had to do. Next time we will make sure that we film all the scenes and don't accidentally miss any shots out. Some of the shots are also blurred so we should have checked on the day that it was in focus. Next time we will look over everything so we don't mess up like that again.