Comparison of Original and Own Production of Collateral

Compared to the original of Collateral, I think we did really well with our own remake even though  we were only able to produce 16 seconds due to the amount of time we had. This is because we firstly chose to shoot the film outdoors where we ended up having trouble with the lighting and we needed extras, a  busy background crowd which were nowhere to be seen. Therefore we decided in the same lesson that we should actually go back indoors, as the lighting would aslo be brighter. In our next lesson we looked over the recorded footage and realised that not all of the shots were in focus and also needed more shots. So we took more shots, looked over them again too and they were perfectly in focus. Finally we edited the clips on 'Final Cut' and produced a final remake of Collateral but we never had enough time to add many effects or any sound to the clip. 

The use of mise-en-scene we didn't need much props and the original clip was mainly located at one setting so it was just right. Luckily someone in the group had sunglasses, that in the original clip Tom Cruise is wearing sunglasses and we thought we could also use it too. In the original clip we see him also picking up a bag, we used a similar bag as well.

The lighting in our clip was just right compared to the original clip too.

The use of camera shots were rather good, as we used our storyboards which helped us to get the right shots at the right time. Unfortunately we never had enough time to get many shots for the most of the clip but we did end up getting quite a few perfect shots.

The editing of the clip we never used many edits but we chose one or two effects that worked really well as each clip changed to another. But after watching other remakes of Collateral we could have used more effects, such as slow motion.  

Overall I was happy with our remake, however we could have improved the clip with more effects and more shots of the scene. But after doing this clip I now have an idea of how to produce a  recorded footage and edit it using final cut, and also use the time given wisely next time.