Shot by Shot Scene Recreation of 10 Things I Hate About You

Our task was to recreate, in small groups, a scene from a film, shot for shot matching the original. We chose quite a short scene with a variety of angles and cuts, the scene is mostly comprised of short takes, with one long take at the beginning of the scene as the pair descend the stairs. Some issues we encountered were continuity based, for example one of actors was wearing a large black hat in the longer takes, before removing it in his later scene, causing an obvious issue relating to continuity.

Another issue we struggled with was our small cast, only four actors were available to us in the lessons we filmed in, restricting our characters, this meant we had to use two actors reacting to the concept of dating Katrina Stratford, limiting the variety of our shots.

Some of our dialogue is difficult to pick up on in the first take, for example one of the actors said "Pada", instead of Padua, which while only a small mistake is significant in the film due to the Shakespearian origins of the film. 

We used Final Cut Pro to edit our scene, with straight cuts and short takes, this part of the project was relatively simple, a majority of our editing focused on sound, we used the the original soundtrack to match the music from the original scene, creating an effective link between our recreation and the original scene. This also helps mask some of the audio issues created through our lack of microphone, as one wasn't available to us while filming. Due to our lack of microphone we had find a scream online, rather than producing on ourselves, while it isn't completely in sync with the actors mouth, this scream is more similar to the original scene's.