Juno Opening Remake

Evaluation of Juno opening remake

We decided to do the opening of Juno as it seemed fun and also the areas we had similarly matched the surroundings that where in the film. First off we got together and watched the opening several times so that we could really pick up every shot. We then played it again, but this time we noted down all the timings of shots, how long the shots go on for, what happened in the shots and how many different angles there are. To make it easier to remember what the shots looked like, we created a storyboard that showed each individual angle and “new shot” there was. They were only rough sketches that would remind us. Although most of our surroundings match the ones in the film, there some parts we had to improvise on. Before we started filming we also had to set parts to people, so that no one was confused.

           We set one of our group members to play Juno, as she looked most like her. We tried our best to get the same props as the Juno opening as we could, which came out quite successful as most of the clothes we had matched. The only thing we had to change was the sunny D bottle prop, which we couldn’t find so we had to improvise with a Tropicana bottle instead. On the day we started our filming, the weather was cloudy but light, which wasn’t the weather in the opening scene. We had to work with this weather as we could be waiting numerous days for sun. We were rather lucky that the days that we had to work on were no raining. On the second day of filming however the weather was slightly gloomier and you can notice this slightly in the recording.

            When we did finished, we managed to get most of the main parts of the opening, although we have still got some bits that are missing. I’m rather pleased with the work we produced in the end, as we only had a limited amount of time to complete it. We also used some video footage we had to make other parts we had missed out. We only had two lessons to complete the video, so we were short for time.