25 Word Film Brief

The Prime Minister is leading a double life as a politician and a drug distributor when a detective becomes suspicious. He tries to take him down.


Rhys Williams and Sam du Berry

Shotlist Of Remake

Time	Time elapsed	Shot
3:01	3:01	Still (zooms out)
2:00	5:01	Transition (cross blur)
4:01	9:02	Still (zooms out)
2:00	11:02	Transition (cube)
4:01	15:03	Still (zooms out)
2:00	17:03	Transition (cube)
3:01	20:04	Still (zooms out)
2:00	22:04	Transition (cross zoom)
2:08	24:12	Columbia pictures presents
2:11	26:23	An Aptow Company production
2:04	28:27	Superbad
2:00	30:27	Jonah Hill
2:00	32:27	Transition (circle open)
4:06	34:33	Seth Rogen
1:20	35:53	Bill Hader
1:00	36:53	Transition (wipe up)
2:11	39:04	Kevin Corrigan Joe Lo Truglio Martha Macisaac Emma Stone
2:14	41:18	And intro Christopher Mintz-Plasse
2:00	43:18	Transition (page right curl)
0:15	43:33	Casting by Alison Jones
1:13	44:46	Transition (cross zoom)
1:07	45:53	Costume designer Debra McGuire
2:18	48:11	Co-producer Dara Weintraub
2:15	50:26	Music supervision by Johnathan Kare
2:19	52:45	Music by Lyle Workman

This shows the different shots and transitions at different times throughout our remake of Superbad. This shot list of our remake is similar to the original film opening however, it is a shortened version. This helped us to understand the timings of how long each title should  be on the screen for and how the importance of each one is shown throughout the opening scene.

Rhys Williams & Sam du Berry

Why we chose the film genre

Our initial ideas for the genre of the film opening were either Action or Horror as these genres appealed to us the most. Existing action films such as James Bond, White house down and The Transporter inspired our film ideas for this genre and we based the majority of our plans around these types of films. Alternatively, our main ideas for a horror film was a supernatural based film of a typical family haunting or a zombie inspired film which was influenced by films such as, Insidious and I am legend. We came up with film opening ideas for both genres before we decided to go ahead with one of the ideas. We ended up choosing to do an Action film as we had a clear, realistic storyline and concept for a film opening. After analysing both genres, we both felt like this is the most suitable genre for us as we were both motivated to do it as we felt that this was the best idea for a storyline and we can create an intriguing, unexpected opening scene.  

 

Sam du Berry  

Mind Maps Of Potential Genres

 

Sam du Berry and Rhys Williams

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

 

 

Superbad Storyboard For Remake

 

 

The purpose of creating a storyboard for our Remake of Superbad was so that we have a guideline of the different shots and editing throughout the opening scene. This will also prepare us for when we produce our own film opening as we will need to draw up a storyboard showing all of the different camera angles used within our piece.

 

Sam du Berry

 

 

 

Timeline Of Superbad Opening (Actual)

TimeLine

The following timeline is the Superbad opening which shows the order of the title sequence and gives the time frame. This is the one that was chosen for a remake and therefore it gave us an understanding of the opening. This helps us because we knew the routine for the opening and copied it into the remake.

When	What
0-5	Black Screen
5-13 Seconds	Zoom, Sony pictures entertainment company
13-20 seconds	Zoom out, Columbia pictures
21 seconds	Silhouettes appear
23 seconds	Logo Disappears
25 seconds	Columbia Pictures presents
28 seconds	An Apatow company production
30 seconds	Superbad
34 Seconds	Jonah Hill
36 seconds	Michael Cera
39 seconds	Seth Rogen
42 seconds	Bill Hader
45 seconds	Kevin Corrigan Joe Lo Truglio Martha MacIsaac Emma Stone
49 Seconds	Christopher Mintze Plasse
52 Seconds	Casting By Allison Jones
55 seconds	Costume designer Debra McGuire
57 Seconds	Dara Weintraub
60 Seconds	Music Supervision By Jonathan Karp
63 Seconds	Music By Lyle Workman
66 Seconds	Edited By Williams Kerr
68 Seconds	Production Designer Chris Spellman
71 Seconds	Director Of Photography Russ Alsobrook, ASC
73 Seconds	Executive Producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
77 Seconds	Judd Apatow Shauna Robertson
80 seconds	Written By Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg
83 seconds	Directed by Greg Mottola
Rhys Williams