Resident Evil - re-make and evaulation

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Evaluation of re-make

After re-creating the film opening for 'Resident Evil' it will help us when considering our own opening sequence. This is because there are many different shots in 'Resident Evil' (also of different angle), there is also non-diegetic music, mise en scene and editing that we had to consider. For the establishing shots, we had to consider how we were going to make the shot look like people were walking round with umbrellas. We chose to use cocktail umbrellas and change the lighting to make them not look so bright during the editing process. We had to change the lighting throughout the whole editing process by making the whole film look darker, so the film looks set later on in the evening as in the original film opening of 'Resident Evil' it is set at night. If we were to improve our film opening we would film the remake in the evening to look more realistic and not have to edit the re-make shots so much.

The location of the film was shot in the school grounds, to make this look more like a street we did have many actors walk by with umbrellas and tried to make every shot look as close the original as we could. However, sometimes this did look unrealistic as there are not as many people as there would be in a real street although, it was the only way for this film that we could film having permission from the people in the background.

We are pleased with how steady the hand held shot is and that we created rain in the background. By making the location look slightly different to what it really looks like, it will help use when making our own film opening so that even if we do not have an exact location that we would like we can make the location look more like how we want by changing the lighting, having props and changing the atmosphere e.g. we added rain and people walking with umbrellas to look more like a street. We think that by creating this film it will help us when creating our own film opening because we learnt to use the editing tool well and it allowed us to film different types of shots which will help us consider which shots we would like in our film opening.

By creating this re-make it will help us consider what order we would like to put our film opening title sequence in and what font we would like them to be in. It will help us consider props, location and the duration of the film opening. The storyboard will help us consider how long each shot should be and consider what is in the framing of each shot.




Sophie Thomas