Juno Opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Luk2jezCA
My opening scene for 'Juno'.
We were put into groups of four, and we all watched the opening scene many times, in order to get an idea of what we would be creating.
Together in groups, we began making notes, this was a shot list and storyboard for the day, and a list of props we would need to make it look more like the actual opening scene.
On the day, I went out before my group to look for places to record, to help speed up the process when it came to getting all the equipment and recording, and found several areas around coleridge that would work out. Later on, we found it easy as a group to get started, working together with the storyboard to quickly get the shots we needed. We improvised most the way, picking places that we could get away with quickly when we realised that it would take far more time to shoot than we thought. After about 2 hours of walking around, recording, climbing trees and skateboarding, we were ready to return to class. I captured all the video into clips with what little time we had left in the day, and that was the end of the day.

On Friday, I got the footage I had uploaded a few days before, and edited with Christina.

I would like to say that we had the most amazing teamwork we had going on, it would have blown you away if you saw the skills we had.

For the editing, we tried our best to keep the time of all the clips the same as they were in 'Juno', but quickly learned this wasn't going to work out, and with time not on our side, we quickly began editing to try and make it look as much like the opening scene. We tried some ideas such as cropping frames and overlapping them to try and recreate the same look 'Juno' has. We also tried to use the same sliding transitions, to try and make it work better.

I feel we put in a good effort, and it looks somewhat like the opening scene, which, for the first project of the year is pretty good I think.