Shot By Shot Remake

My Experience: JUNO Remake

When I first heard that our group was going to do Juno for our remake, I was excited, but I didn't realise how hard it would be to get the same shots as the shots in the actual video. First of all we had to pick the actors and pick the people to film and be the extras, get the props we needed and sort out the costume. Luckily there was only one main character that we needed to focus on and we did that rather quickly.

For the first scene, I realised that we couldn't use the tripod or hold the camera ourselves because I needed to shoot Jaleesa walking and the camera had to follow her, so we went to the technician in college to get a Fig-Rig to steady the camera and get the shot we needed. This did give us a couple of problems, however, because the camera wasn't really that steady and the camera was out of focus. This is something that we can definitely improve on for next time.

Our first worry was that, because we were shooting in the winter time, we wouldn't have the same sun that was in the opening for Juno, but luckily we met up during lunchtime, the brightest part of the day, to get the shots done in around an hour.

We also realised that our storyboard that we made wasn't as accurate as it should have been so we had to keep on watching the original opening to use for our own. This is something that we shouldn't have to do again so we'll make sure our drawings can help us a lot more.