The remake was both challenging and easy - and definetely useful for our final piece. Every step had it's obstacles but I think I and my group overcame them to the best of abilities. The first task was to list down every shot - however some shots were subharban houses and lakes which we could not film as it was not in our area and we had limited time. But we overcame this by taking other shots in the opening sequence, such as the alleyway and the clock.
The filming went pretty smoothly, as the group are specialised in different aspects of filming, for example I am good at pan shots but Jerome may be good at angling the shot correctly. We tried to mimick Ben Affleck's vision to the best of our capability through the costumes (Ali brought in jogging bottoms) were brought in and in the beginning where the husband was stroking the wifes hair - I took a peers jacket and laid it out on a table and laid on it, as it wouldn't be smart to lie on someone (the camera is meant to be the point of view of the husband, my peer would have to shove his head down with the camera over his neck while trying to find my head to stroke). When we got to editing it was a bit confusing as it was our first time working with how to incorprate titles. We had little time, so we could not fit in all the credits, so every few seconds we would add one in so it would be balanced throughout the sequence. It was also not in the same place as we did not know how to move the text, but it was a learning curve.
Furthermore (due to the shortage of time) we could not add the sound in - but we got rid of any ambient sound to make it more acceptable. Overall I think this was of good use as we learnt how to use titles and gained more knowledge in how to manipulate sound to our advantage and how important costume is so we are more experienced for our actual piece.
