Se7en Remake Evaluation

The title sequence that we as a group decided to do different from other groups, we went for a more visual and eerie title sequence instead - Se7en. This title sequence was interesting for us because it didn't require any shot of our faces, only our hands. (this would in turn lead to less shots that would have to be cut due to actor laughing etc). The props weren't too hard to find although we didn't have as much as we needed when it was coming to the recording process but with the props we didn't have, we improvised. The storyboard was extremely helpful to us as it guided exactly how to do the shot we needed (although we had difficulties with only 1 shot). The use of lowkey lighting and jump cuts really set an eerie tone to it and we stuck with se7en until the end.

The filming was tougher than we expected it to be as there was many things that we couldn't do (for example the shot where the character flips the page but you see the shadow of his hand through it). The location we used was a small meeting room that was recommended to us by our teacher - this worked very effectively as there was no outside light meaning that it was easy to manipulate the lighting the way that we wanted. The lighting was also hard to pull off as certain angles would make the shot seem "off" but in the end I thought we did pretty well for how little time we had to record everything.

The editing wasn't too hard as we had both visual references and a storyboard to go off of as far as the scenes go. However, the transitions were plentiful and also a huge amount of credits made it hard for us to finish everything in time, but we made do with what we had available. We went for the closest thing we possibly could do for the title sequence but due to time constraints we couldn't finish the entire title sequence in just about an hours worth of time.

Overall, I believe that this filming exercise was a very important learning experience for all of us, it stresses how much teamwork is needed in order to succeed. Storyboards are also extremely helpful as it gives us a visual representation of where the camera should be, what you should be looking at etc. The only thing that I think would make our title sequence much better is if we took an extra 5 minutes to remove the sound from the original clips and overlay it with the sound from the actual title sequence. Watching our title sequence without sound it's hard to understand what's going on so the element of sound is extremely important in filming.