Planning
This was our first task for this project. We had to watch the opening carefully and fill out a storyboard for it. In this we had to fill out what happens in each shot and which type of shot each one was, with this we also had to include how long each shot be around.
This was my storyboard:
When we went out to complete the filming we took these sheets out with us and this enabled us to know how to film the required scene and what it should look like. I also used these storyboards whilst I was editing as without these it would become quite complicated because I further wrote in between each scene what the transitions should look like.
Although if I completed these story boards again I would note down more information on each shot so that it is clearer to the people acting and filming as to what it should look like as the final product, because a couple times whilst we were filming the scenes, we got a little confused as to what the finished product should look like in comparison to the story board.
The other thing which I would improve in my storyboards would be the terminology which I wrote down to describe the shots. I think that this needed to be improved if I did this again, because a couple of times I didn't use the correct terminology. For example a few times I wrote that the camera should follow the character as they walked, however I should have called it a tracking shot.
Once the story boards had been filled out, we begun to think about the Mise en Scene and what props we would need to bring in for the filming, such as the juice carton, the red hoodie and the black shoes, as well as where the best place to film each scene would be. We decided this now so that when we went out to do the filming we could go straight out the next lesson and film from the very beginning.
Filming and Editing
After we had the lesson to complete the planning above, we then had to go out and collect the filming footage needed to recreate the opening sequence. (I took the story boards out with me, so we could check as we went along.) We only had an hour to complete all the filming needed, so we had to use all of our hour effectively to complete it in the time limit. Once we got all of our footage we went back inside and uploaded it all onto the computer. I then imported it onto Adobe Premier and this is when I started to edit and decipher the filming we had completed.
The editing took me the longest of each of the sections as I had to be very focused on what I was doing in order for the editing to be precise and as similar as I could make it to the original.
The thing that I found most difficult about the editing was making it the same as the original. This is because the editing programme which we use at school, obviously, isn't as high tech as the professional one which the Juno producers would have used and this meant that not every transition which was completed in the original was able to be completed in ours due to the software simply not having the effect needed.
Below is my final edit of my recreation of Juno's opening sequence:
I thought that by adding the cartoon effect which was called 'Find Edges' onto the film, it made the shots look a lot more like the shots in the original therefore making it look more professional. Also I thought that the way I cut the clips was fairly effective because you couldn't tell when she stopped and started the walking from when we were filming the scenes. By these cuts looking clean it enabled the opening that I created to flow between shots better and, again, therefore look closer to the original which makes it more professional.
However it could do with improvements. If I was to complete the task again I would improve the timings in certain shots. This is because in a couple of the shots in comparison to the original the length was too short, and this caused the next shot to be out of time and as a result, longer than it should have been in order to compensate for the previous short shot. The other thing which I think would have made my sequence better would have been to make the first two scenes just one long one as in the second section the tree isn't in the same place as before making it a filming mistake meaning that I have to use a blending transition, in order to cover this mistake up, which isn't in the original filming. The final improvement I would make on the video is on the tracking shot at the beginning, this is because in the original version the movement is smooth along in the shots. However when I flmed this part the camera jolts up and down, so you can see where I walking with the camera. Therefore if I did this again I would use something like a wheely chair to sit on and slide along so that the shot taken has a smoother feel to it.