Shot By Shot Remake Analysis

Collateral Remake Analysis



As a practise for our thriller opening, we shot a remake of Collateral. This was a very useful lesson as we learnt many new things. First of all we analysed the Collateral opening scene, this gave us the opportunity to  identify different shot types and experiment with them in our practical work. We drew up a story-board which we would use in the remake. I was not in during the lesson we shot the remake but was in to edit the opening. We used Final Cut Pro to edit our opening. I had never used Final Cut Pro and learnt many things which i can use for my final thriller opening. One very useful skill was editing music. I learnt how to import music files over the original sound clip of a video. This will help me when it comes to making my thriller as i can introduce different types of sound and music for different scenes. We also used certain effects in the remake scene such as the slow motion as the bag drops. We believed that this would be a good effect to use in order to create tension and turn the readers attention towards these objects. Making this shot different to most of the others makes it stick out, which is important as the bag drop is a significant event in this movie opening.



Here is the original opening we tried to remake. Comparing both clips I believe we had made a good attempt at remaking the Collateral opening scene. It is easy to tell what is happening and camera shots are almost identical. There were a few issues in which we did not have the relevant props or location in order to make the remake perfect but with the resources we had i believe we did a good job. There were some apparent mistakes such as the poor zooming out in the first scene, this is something we had picked up on and can now ensure it doesn't happen again. This experience has given us the opportunities to test out different shots and angles to see what works and what doesn't. As a group, I believe we all now have a much better understanding on how to use the camera and different shot types and how we can show different elements within a film.