Shot by Shot remake: Filming

Collecting our shots for the intro to The Breakfast Club

(The Director telling them how to act in the scene)

We all assigned ourselves different roles to complete the task easier and better. Cristian worked as the director making sure that the camera was in the right position and trying to capture the shot

 and make it look as close as possible to the original Breakfast Club.

Rojal helped film shots and picked out the locations that could help us achieve similarity to the movie.

This was helpful as it allowed me to position the camera in the right place quickly.

Ashley carried around the shots from the original movie and told us the order of each shot. We decided to keep the shots in order as much as possible as it was easier to cross off which shots we have done.

This also allowed the group to work swiftly.

Ismail assisted the group by telling us we could improve the shots. He also gave advise to Ashley on which location was better to shoot to make our film look even more familiar to the original. 

(Cristian and Rojal setting up the camera)

(Lockers in The Breakfast Club opening scene)

Tilting the camera

Here Rojal is setting up the camera to achieve a shot that is most similar to the original scene. In the picture we are filming some locker that have been placed for us. Rojal mentioned that the shot is actually a tilt show and isn't still. Therefore we placed the camera on the tripod and Rojal tilted the camera whilst filming. This allowed the shot to look even more similar to the original movie.

Working together 

In this picture Ismail is showing the original order of the shots to Rojal. This helps him by allowing him to understand which shot he is filming now and which one he will be doing next; and most importantly if it is in order. By helping each other it allowed us all to finish our shots quicker and in the right order.

In the car
Here we decided to include Ismail as the little girl that says "yeah!" in the Brains car. We decided to film them all bunched up as this shows they are a family, Ashley played the mum and Rojal the Brain. Cristian also took a combination of mid shots, close ups, extreme close ups and over the shoulder to show their conversation.

Problem Solving

 

Here we were filming the shot where the basket case exits the car and the criminal walks in front of the car, since we didn't have an actual sized car we decided to use a toy prop car. We had trouble think of how to make it look like an actual size. Until we decided to place the car close to the camera to make it look bigger. We then used Ismail as the criminal to walk up to the camera. Thereby gradually pushing the car forward to make it look like its moving. This was the easiest way to make this scene possible.

Avoiding Problems

On the other hand we decided not to include the basket case exiting the car as this was hard to do; it also looked very odd when filming. Since we didn't have enough time to travel outside and film the shot, we attempted to use a chair as the moving car and a blank paper as the window. However after seeing the shot and not being happy with the outcome we decided it would be better to leave the shot and not include it.

 Here we we're testing how the positioning of the car would appear on the camera.