How we made the remake?

In order to recreate the Superbad opening we needed to find 2 actors because throughout the introduction to the film the couple of males who seem to be the main characters were dancing. This was the most simplistic bit and in order to do it we picked out 2 people with similar body shapes and asked them if they would.
When we were picking the location for filming the piece we needed to think about the lighting in order to get a clear and crisp shot and therefore we chose a large room with naturalistic lighting and filmed in the day time. There was an opportunity to use a home - made green screen but we didn't feel it offered us a good quality so in the end we chose against it and to instead edit the colours when we went on to the editing stage. This meant that we just needed a relatively plain wall to film against. We set the camera up with a tripod sitting on a table approximately 2-3 metres away in order to get both actors in the shot and as minimal of the obstructions as we could. We then did multiple shots of each of the characters and their respectful parts in the clip. Following on from this is the editing stage.

We withdrew the footage from the camera and imported it onto the Apple Mac. From here we opened it up in iMovie '11 and started a new project. We took our footage from the event library and inserted it into the new project. We took one clip at a time and ordered the footage so that it was in the same sequence as the actual opening. The next part was to edit each of the clips and add effects and various colours to them. The actual film opening had three changes in colour throughout it but unfortunately as ours was slightly shorter we could only incorporate 2 changes and we decided to use the x-ray effect and then edit the contrast and brightness. This meant it faded out the facial expressions and resulted in a similar effect to the actual opening. The second effect was day into night which gave us a colour change and another different effect, it also again removed the characters facial expressions. The next step was to split all the clips into the amount of seconds a subtitle would come up for, we did this because we felt the editing was more organised although we could have left them as they were. As this was complete we added the subtitles into the corresponding position on the screen and then changed the colours. We changed the font into Gill Sans because we felt it was similar to the actual font and looked good in the piece. Finally we added some copyright free music which was as near to the actual music as we could. The genre of music we had to look for was soul.




Rhys Williams