Shot by shot remake - filming

Shot by shot remake - filming

Prior to filming our shot by shot remake of The Breakfast Club, we created a storyboard containing every frame of the original opening. We used it as a guideline for our remake and it ensured that we filmed the scenes in the correct order.

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After we made our storyboard, we collected the following props in order to aid our filming process: a toy car, a wig and headphones. We used the toy car to act as a replacement for the actual cars that were seen in the original opening. The wig was used to portray the female characters such as: the mothers and daughters. And we used the headphones to act as a steering wheel in the shots that involved characters that were in cars.

An example of a group member, Hadi, portraying a female character with the help of a wig.

We filmed the majority of this task in empty classes, where we could film without any distractions from other groups or passers by. We used a range of technical equipment including: a camera, tripod, and flip  camera whilst filming. We used the flip camera in order to record the voice over which occurred at the beginning of the film after the title sequence. And the camera and tripod were used to film the other scenes, including the still shot of the clock and the tilt whilst filming the locker.

Our cameraman, Raekwon, demonstrating how we shot scenes with the camera.

An example of one of the vacant rooms that we used to film in.

Whilst filming, we encountered various problems. One of the main ones is the fact that we ran out of time, which resulted in us having to rush the latter scenes of our opening. This happened primarily because we had to figure out ways in which to solve the problem of us having only 3 members; so we had to work around the problems that arose from it. An example of this is when we filmed the scene of 'the brain'. There are 3 characters that were involved in the scene - the brain, his mother and his little sister. Because of this we had to set the camera and then start recording prior to getting into our correct positions and acting.