Film opening remake

We did another preliminary task of re making a film opening. At this point we still weren't sure what what genre we were going to do but it didn't really matter as this task was all about gaining a better insight as to what we have to do to make a film opening and how much work would go into it.

We decided to remake the opening to the comedy film Super bad. Everyone in our group knew the film and the opening well so we had some idea of what we would have to do. The film opening is basically just two people dancing which would be quite easy for us to film, the hardest bit of it would be the editing as each shot has a different coloured back ground. We would have to add this in post production. We were confident that it wouldn't take us long to film as we would only need a static camera and all Robert and I would have to do is learn the dance. Even though we thought it wouldn't take us long we still created a shot list as we would have to do an extensive on for our actual film opening so this was good practise. We also made a storyboard which had our titles and transitions on, I thought that this would be more helpful when it came to editing as we could see what transitions we would have to use and what times the titles would have to come in.

I think this task was really helpful. It gave me an insight of how much work we will have to put into making our opening and also what compromises we will have to make. For example when it came to editing we didn't have the same star transition that they used in the original so we had to find a similar one we could use.

Above is the original opening for Super bad. We tried to make it as similar as possible but there were some things we had to compromise on. First of all we couldn't access a star transition for the end of our opening so we used the closest thing we had which was a circle one, this wasn't really a problem it just gave us an idea of how we should time transitions. We couldn't use the same music as they did in the original opening because it is copy writed When we make our opening we wont be ale to use copy writed music so this was a good insight into the type of music available to us.