Our Opening Remake

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This is the opening to our film remake. Our chosen film was The Shining


[To clear up any confusion, I was in a different group for the film remake than what i was in for our own film openings]

The reason we have made a film opening remake is so we understand the camera angles used and the length of different shots and how they affect the film as a whole. For anything that we couldn't recreate accurately, we needed to improvise. In the real opening to The Shining, there was a Volkswagen Beetle driving through a mountainous landscape. With us being 16 year olds without driving licenses and not being within easy access of an alp or two, we decided to improvise. Instead of a real car, we used one of my 1:10 Radio Controlled race-spec touring cars. To get the helicopter shots, we originally planned to use a drone with a camera mounted on it. The issue with this was that i was the only one who could drive the car (i wasn't letting someone else drive the car due to its value) and it was too windy to fly a drone, so we resorted to a selfie-sick mounted camera, that way, we could get higher shots where necessary and keep the camera steadier. The tunnel scene we needed to improvise with as we didnt have the time to make a rudimentary tunnel, meaning we resorted to using a doorway.

This will help us with creating our own film openings since it allows us to see how an actual film opening is made and for us to understand the angles and shots used, giving us first-hand experience of being a director. 

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