The Group Members

MEMBER 1:
Name: Oliver Jewers
Candidate Number: 2242

MEMBER 2:
Name: Joe French
Candidate Number: 2205

MEMBER 3:
Name: Joe Fisher
Candidate Number: 2196

The Remake (Oliver Jewers)

As a group, we decided we would create a re-make of the Shining opening sequence. Although not directly linked to our chosen genres now that we have defined what we want to do, it would be useful to us as we want to create this same element of mystery that this film opening has. As well as this, it will also give us insight in to the key ideas in filming which may help us with our film opening, such as how lighting will effect our set, how mise-en-scene is used (through analysing this opening sequence), and ultimately, what gives it the sense of mystery that we want to try and recreate.

This is the opening we created:

The Remake - The Actual Film Opening (Oliver Jewers)

The Shining Opening Titles

We decided to remake this film because we thought the sequence of titles was well paced and shown in a conventional order. therefore it will be a good foundation to base the sequence of titles of our own opening upon. Also, our story shares the same genre of a mystery or thriller type of film, therefore we could take inspiration from it to adopt for our piece. The music in the piece creates an eerie atmosphere and we could use a similar composition in our piece to create a similar effect.

It will help us when creating our own opening as we have a familiarity with the traditional sequence of titles which we will use in our piece.

Remake Timeline (Joe French)

This will help us when creating our piece because it will seem more like a professionally done film.

Start

Black screen for first 2 seconds 0:02

Warner Bros logo appears for 9 seconds 0:09

Cut to an open river for 17 seconds 0:26

Fades into an aerial shot of a road following a car in the forest for 20 seconds 0:46

Cuts into an establishing shot of a road and a mountain in the background for 18 seconds 1:04

Cuts into a cliff and a roadside high angle, it will still be tracking the car for 8 seconds 1:12

'A Stanley Kubrick Film' appears in a cyan colour

Zooming shot onto the car, becoming closer, the camera goes past the car and 'Jack Nicholson' appears for 30 seconds 1:42

Camera passes the car and 'Shelley Duvall' appears for 2 seconds 1:44

Camera goes off the road, showing forests and mountains along with a river as an establishing shot with the title 'The Shining'

Cuts for 5 seconds 1:49

Aerial Shot 'featuring Danny Lloyd' appears and camera tracks at a slow pace

A car enters a tunnel and 'Scatman Crothers' appears, 'Barry Nelson', 'Philip Stone' and 'Joe Turkel' appears for 30 seconds 2:19

Cut - 'Anne Jackson'

Shot of car driving on a grassy mountain 'Tony Burton' appears and tracks car from the side

'Executive producer: Jan Harlan' ' Based upon the novel by Stephen King'

'Product Association with the production circle company Robert Fryer, Martin Richards and Mary Lea Johnson'

The car moves downwards in association with composition as camera tracks whilst moving upwards for 23 seconds 2:42

Aerial shot of the snowy side of the mountain 'Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Diane Johnson'

'Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick' for 10 seconds 2:52

Cut

Establishing shot of mountain in background and hose in the foreground, cricles around to the side of the house for 7 seconds

Total time: 2:59

Remake Storyboard (Joe Fisher)

Scenes 1 - 6

Scenes 7 - 10

This will help us when creating our opening because it will give us a basic outline as to what sort of scenes we should be shooting as a necessity to the running order of the opening sequence. It also means that when we are filming we don' have to keep referring to the original films opening to make sure we've done everything correctly, so we don't have to waste time. This, along with the shot list, will allow us to create our film opening efficiently, presenting the same shots and running order as the original film, allowing us to gain some knowledge of film-making before we start on our larger project.

Remake Shotlsist (Oliver Jewers)

This is the shotlist we made for our remake which resembles the shots in the original film.

Shot Number	What the Shot is Showing
1	This opening shot has the camera move across a river (Blue tarpaulin) and pass an island with a tree (Dirt with a stick).
2	This is an aerial tracking shot which follows the toy car as it makes its way down the road (pavement/path).
3	The next shot follows the car from its left and behind as it makes its way down the road (wooden beam) by the Cliffside.
4	This is a side on shot of the car that follows it as it moves along the Cliffside and the camera passes the car
5	This merges with the shot beforehand and shows the camera after it passes the car, the camera rises to show the river and hills.
6	Shows the car from behind as it enters the tunnel
7	Camera follows over the hill above the tunnel.
8	We see the car exit the tunnel and move further down the road.
9	Another side on shot of the car as it moves on a more flat piece of land.
10	Behind shot of the car ascending the mountain
11	Establishing shot of hotel (Homebase basket) with the mountain beside it (paper drawing)

This will help us when creating our opening sequence as we will understand the importance of planning and how we will organise our piece. Also it will make the filming process easier having a shotlist as we will know exactly what we are doing on our filming days.

Constructing Our Remake (Joe French)

Notes on how we made our remake -

(Use photos)

Toy car- We used a toy car in our remake because throughout the opening, a car is driving down a number of roads, we decided to use this because in the opening the car is followed and looks very small when being shown so we used a toy car because they are actually very small and would look no different in comparison to the actual opening because they are both shown as small. We tied a piece of string to the car in order to show it moving without showing our hands, this adds realism because it looks as of the car is moving by itself which is what is shown in the actual opening and this helps make it look as much like the opening as possible.

Mountain- We used a pile of dirt on a garden as a mountain, this is because it looks like a real mountain and adds to the realism because mountains generally have a lot of dirt covering them. It also worked with the toy car to show scale like in the opening because the mountain is huge compared to the car driving through it so when comparing the pile of dirt to the toy car, it actually looked as if a real car was driving through the mountains.

River and Island- For this we used a plastic blue sheet for the river, this is because rivers generally look blue so it would look like the cameras was flying over the river. We also made an island out of some dirt and a stick for a tree which makes it look natural and makes it look as if its real.

Road- We used a long wooden plank for the road that the car would be run along, this is because its long but narrow like many of the roads in the opening of the film but also because we could move it around and put it in different places so we could still have a road but in a different location.  

Knowing this will help us when constructing our film opening because it helps us work with whatever we have so we can still create a good film opening with minimal spending.