More stuff has been done. College work. Fun work. Good work...Yes. This time we had to remake a scene form the movie 'Brick'. 'Brick' is directed by Rian Johnson. The film is a detective drama set in a high school. It's great. The scene we had to recreate is the chase scene which sees Joseph Gordon Levitts chased by another student at the school.
This is the original from way back in 2005. | This is the one I made with a small group. |
The original scene is fantastic. It's well directed, edited and written. It adds to the suspense of the film and creates tension and drama. In the scene many shot types are used. Close ups, long shots, tracking shots and pans are used very effectively to add drama and make the scene seem more frantic.
In my recreation we went for the Birdman approach. The whole scene is done in one continuous shot which gives a really cool effect. We did a lot with using pull focus and smooth camera movements to make the scene flow. This is a very different approach to the way that Johnson used when making the scene. In the original a lot of short, sharp, quick cuts that make the scene seem very intense. In our version it almost makes the scene feel like a horror. You feel the confusion from the main character (Me if you didn't know) and feel invested in the scene.
Not one to blow my own trumpet but I prefer the approach used in our version. This may just be because I'm a huge Birdman fan and like to be arty as eff but I think it works for the scene. Not to say of course that the original is bad in any way. It's great. Fits the tone of the rest of the film perfectly.
Cheers for sticking around through that rambling. Bye.
In my recreation we went for the Birdman approach. The whole scene is done in one continuous shot which gives a really cool effect. We did a lot with using pull focus and smooth camera movements to make the scene flow. This is a very different approach to the way that Johnson used when making the scene. In the original a lot of short, sharp, quick cuts that make the scene seem very intense. In our version it almost makes the scene feel like a horror. You feel the confusion from the main character (Me if you didn't know) and feel invested in the scene.
Not one to blow my own trumpet but I prefer the approach used in our version. This may just be because I'm a huge Birdman fan and like to be arty as eff but I think it works for the scene. Not to say of course that the original is bad in any way. It's great. Fits the tone of the rest of the film perfectly.
Cheers for sticking around through that rambling. Bye.