We were given the task of recreating the opening sequence of the film Juno.
We first watched the sequence and wrote down the order of events on a story board. On this story board we included the camera angles, timings and any props included in each shot so we could get the most accurate shots when filming. We used the story boards so we didn't have to keep referring back to the original video of the opening sequence whilst we were out filming.
We started shooting the first sequence on the school fields, we were hoping to find some students in a p.e class that we could use for the group of people running in the opening shot, however we struggled to find some, so we continued shooting the scene. We also struggled with things like pedestrian and traffic whilst out filming as a few of the shots were shot from different sides of the road so cars often got in the way, meaning we had to shot the sequence a few times before we got the right shot.
Once we had filmed and completed all the scenes we went back to begin editing and cutting the shots together to make the final sequence. When uploading the footage onto the desktop i struggled as I could not locate the footage once uploaded, i also found difficulty when importing into onto Abdobe Premiere. However i got there in the end, I began by lining up all the shots so they were in time with the original opening sequence. For this I had to cut down some of our scenes as they were to long, we deliberately made them longer than we needed so we had room either side to edit and make it the right length without long pauses.
Once the clips were all the right length and in the right order I added in transitions and effects to make it even more like the original sequence.
Finally I added a small copy of the original opening sequence in the corner, so the viewer can see exactly how it should look.
The final product can be seen below;