Recreation on an Existing Short Film : The Task...

Within AS before we started to develop our own ideas of an two minute opening, we were set the challenge of recreating the opening two minutes of 'The Hangover', so after many hours of re-watching the hangover, our Sunday afternoons spent on chilly farm yards or in a nice hotel, last minute rushes for editing, we finally all screened our creations. The time of year has come again to give up our Sunday afternoons (or more Wednesday afternoons for us), and recreate a short film, within class previously we had watched two short film, "Get off my land" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00gs4yj) which was directed by Douglas Ray and "My Beast Friend" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p007xb6t) which was directed by Ewan Torrance. We were instructed to get into three groups of four (mine consisted of me, Jake, Caitlin and Nicole), and chose one of the shorts to recreate, between the three groups both must of been reconstructed this is where the first challenge came as we all initially wanted to all recreate "Get off my land", as being typical Norfolk we all knew farmers so could access the props, land and actors, initially we picked from the envelope "Get off my land" however after discussing as a group, we decided that because we were not all free on the weekend so would need to do after school filming and with the nights getting dark earlier, we would be more rushed to film in the light with "Get off my land" so we decided to face the challenge of tracking down the cat outfit and chose to do "My Beast Friend". In order to execute a piece as close to the original as possible, we must take into account factors such as the gender/age/build/physical appearance as well as the role of the characters (in order to really get a feel for the characters we must create a biography for each of the main characters), the mise-en-scene (looking at the location, props, costume and make-up), the sound (luckily by choosing "My Beast Friend" we do not have the issue of the wind which we had in "The Hangover". We have been given two weeks to complete the task, with the dreaded hand in date being Friday 28th September.