The Breakfast Club Opening - Planning

Explanation of task: Using the opening titles credits and scene from The Breakfast Club, we made notes on the order the credits appeared in, and what shots were used, in order for us to be able to recreate it. Some shots had to be substituted, so we made a storyboard and shot list in order to help us plan filming. 

 

Director - Sheldon 

 

Cameraman - Sheldon, Rachael

Characters-
Basket Case - Jack
Athlete/Jock - Karim
Princess - Sana
Brain - Miraj
Criminal- Sheldon

Two other people were cast as two of the characters as the group did not have enough people.

Props-
Varsity Jacket (Optional)
Phones
Pens
Bright Red Coat

Locations-
College entrance
Angel Train Station
Bus stop
Street outside college/college gates
Owens Field
Hallways
Canteen
Common room
Main hall

Canteen
Hall
Empty Corridor
Lift
Library
Empty Hallway
Common Room
Classroom

The locations were changed as, some locations were not filming friendly due to the unforeseen weather therefore, some locations were kept out of the places where the filming would be conducted.


Substituted conversations in cars in the film for phone calls and text messages, in order to adapt it in our way

The teacher was excluded because in the film he shows at the end in the opening and isn't very significant.

 

He's a picture of some of out planning sheets which was drawn in so that it would give us a rough idea of what our group would do when filming. Description in each of the boxes under the pictures are short in order to keep it simple rather than making it long worded which may be hard to understand later on.

Here is a picture of what was written down on one of the shot lists including every single detail that was needed to be known.

Rachael is shown adjusting the camera, in terms of the height at which the footage would be shot and what the camera would be able to film through the viewer.

This picture shows three of the characters, in our adaptation of The Breakfast Club. Princess, who is holding her phone with a frustrated look on her face as well as the fact she dressed very fashionable way and the phone just emphasizes that image. You have the athlete sitting next to her, leaning on his arm, wearing a sports jacket which presents him as the athlete. At the very back, you hardly see the character and he's dressed in black which gives the image that he is the Basket Case, being far away from every other character and being isolated.

In this picture you have Rachael filming, the criminal who can be identified by the puffy coat he is wearing as well as the fact that he has his hands in his pocket which shows he may have something to hide as he's very closed up.

For this shot, Rachael is getting a close up of the criminal.

Jack is playing the Basket Case. The posture of the Basket Case, is very lazy giving off the image that he doesn't care as his feet are stretched out and his hands are just lying on him and he is leaning on a table. This therefore portrays him to be the Basket Case as in the film, the character act in a very similar manner. Black clothing also gives the image of a bad guy, as black in some texts are associated with evil, mean, dark etc.

Rachael is adjusting, the angle at which the footage is being shot to get a close up shot of one of the characters from a slightly high angle.