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Run! a short reflection on the remake
Over the last few weeks in Maker, we remade a short film called ‘RUN!’ by CookieImagination.1 For the project, we worked in groups and had to try and recreate the original as closely as possible, shots and sound.
On the first day after we were introduced to what we would have to do, we briefly discussed possible filming locations and I made a list of the shots we would need, we then set out to film.
The first day of filming was good, with us getting a bit over half of the shots done, the next day was more of a problem as the person who was playing jogger 1 wore a different outfit, meaning the final product would lack some continuity. While we were filming I was also recording sounds we could use as I wanted to make all the sounds by-hand, which lead to some interesting results, for example, the sound at the very end of the video is a door slamming, layered with a old violin, a piano and a water bottle.
The editing was the most time consuming part, even though I had the original to reference. Once I started editing, I realized that some of the clips were too short, which threw off the timing of the rest of the film, other than that.2
Once we were ‘done’ we watched all the films and gave people feedback, some of the main feedback we received was about fixing the timing, and improving some of the sounds.
Once we had the feedback, the first thing we did was re-film all of the clips that were too short or with the wrong outfit3, then I edited those into our remake, fixing the audio and timing, as well as adding some small details like color grading and changing the aspect ratio. Here’s our first and second versions, along with the original: