Recreating the submarine opening

This is the opening of submarine that we shall be recreating.

Before filming

When we were given this task we were told that we could work in groups of one or two people. I decided to work with Molly as it would be easy to arrange a day to film and we felt that we could produce a better piece of work if we were working together than on our own.

Cast:  We decided to cast My eight year old brother to play the role of 'Oliver Tate'. We thought that this would be a good idea because it will be easy to organize a time to film. Also, by using my brother we can film the scene in his bedroom because he lives with me. Even though he is a little bit younger than the actor used to play Oliver in the film, we felt that it was still the best option because all of the other options we thought of didn't fit right with the scene or didn't have a suitable bedroom to film in, such as not having room under the window. However, we will use a different person to narration for the scene as we both agreed that my brother was too young and therefore wouldn't be confident enough to speak into the microphone. Also, he doesn't attend our school so getting him into the recording studio could be difficult. For this reason we are going to use someone from one of the younger year groups at our school to film as this will allow us to have easy access to the music studio and will also allow our work to be professional. We decided not to get someone from our age group to do the voiceover as their voice would sound too mature for an eight year old boys image.

Location: As mentioned above we agreed that we would use my brothers bedroom for the scene which is shot inside. We felt that this would be a good location as there is a window with room for him to sit under and there is a few things on the wall which is fairly similar to the boys bedroom in the actual film. However, there isn't anywhere near as much clutter in the room that we are using than the one in the film which could make our version of the film look very different from the original. Also, we are deciding to use the countryside located around Molly's house, in the village of Morley, to film the outside, scenic shots. We felt that this would be appropriate because it would be easy to find the time to film the shots and there is nice scenery.


Storyboard: We are creating a storyboard to aid the way that we film the scenes. The storyboard that we are creating will act like a plan on the day of filming which will make the overall process easier. As well as having a rough sketch of what will be shown at each stage of the clip, we will also write how many seconds each shot should be shown for. This will mean that we are able to know exactly what we are doing on the day of filming and we won't have to cut as much footage when creating the end product. The storyboard will also show the angle that each shot should be filmed at and this will allow our work to look as close to the original as possible, creating a professional feel.

Filming

When filming all shots we used a tripod to make sure that the shot was still, this created a professional look to the shots. To film the shot of the room, we used a slow panning shot from one side of the room to the other. By making the speed of the panning shot slow meant that you could see the items in the room which created more meaning and correlation to the original opening sequence of Submarine. We found getting the shot under the window difficult as it was hard to get the right proportion of window and still make sure that we got all of the shot of Annie's little brother, playing Oliver Tate. The next shot was then a zoomed in shot of Annie's brothers face. We had a lower angle for this shot to emphasise the change from a far away shot to a close up.

To film the outside locations we tried to film in the evening when there was a pink/orange sunset. This backdrop would create a similar look to the scenic shots used in the original clip of Submarine. We used several different fields around my house as they display natural scenes, similar to the natural clips used in the original. Once again we used a tripod to make sure that the shots were steady and level as if they had been shakey it wouldn't have looked very professional. We didn't move the camera to film these shots as we tried to base it around the shots used in the original opening sequence. 

Editing

To edit the footage we used Adobe Premiere Pro. Firstly, we decided to look at all of the footage and decide which clips we wanted to keep and which to delete. Once we had done this we had to put them in place and cut them down so they were the right length, to do this we used the razor tool. The aim of our project was to create a version of the opening couple of minutes of submarine, as a result of this we decided to use the same idents used in the original, film 4. Therefore adding in the idents between the footage was the easiest part of editing. After this we had to make sure that the clips ran smoothly onto each other, without stopping and starting and without having a brief moment of pitch black. This was essential as we didn't want the end footage to look unprofessional. After this, we had to add the backing noises such as the soundtrack from the opening sequence of the original and the narration, it was really important that we made sure the sounds in the background were in the right place as they are key aspects of the opening sequence

Evaluation

Me and Molly found it really hard to edit our videos on adobe premier as we have never used the programme before. We have all the footage and what we did what was fine such as the acting of the boy and the videos however we struggled to get the film four ident of YouTube onto our submarine video and the titles that come up in the original submarine video. if we were to do it again I would try have more experience with adobe premiere before trying to tackle making my own video.