#finalprojectvisex

[katieqnmr]

final project review: recreation of a scene - trainspotting (1996)

the scene we chose to recreate was one from Danny Boyle’s ‘Trainspotting’, the scene in particular being one where Mark Renton explains to the viewer how one might give up heroin. It’s only about a minute long.

honestly, this recreation was kind of a nightmare in many regards for me personally, though I think my group, Mary Hanna (Director), Natalia Baczynski (DOP) and Bethany Isles (Producer), did a fantastic job in their respective roles, and our group was super small, which was an additional challenge. Jack Weir kindly agreed to act as Renton and do the voiceover required for the scene, and did an amazing job. I was the editor for our group, as I was going home early because of all the difficulties of this year, so being an editor seemed perfect - something I’m really keen on, and having some creative control whilst being away from the group. I kind of regretted being away on the filming day, as some clips were a little confusing even though labelled correctly, but that was bound to happen in a situation like this. I love editing, but I usually use Sony Vegas on my computer, which I didn't have with me - I also couldn't install avid on either my computer or laptop, so I used ?iMovie? :’), which surprisingly was okay to edit on hahaha I mean... it did the job. I attempted colour grading with Davinci,  a software I’ve never used before, so tried to crash course myself through that... with varying degrees of success. I was able to get rid of the slightly washed out feel the Blackmagic unfortunately put into the shots, but it wasn’t hugely similar to the original shot’s colours. The sound was really hard to balance volume wise, which led to a horrible clashing of the soundtrack with the voiceover. I additionally had to re render the film multiple times due to other boring technical issues, and my internet crashed multiple times whilst trying to upload it, so it was a painstaking process in that regard. Despite multiple difficulties, additionally production design wise (finding the correct props etc), our group did really well in our effort to reproduce this scene, although I honestly don't want to ever see the original ever again :’) I think what we did well, we did really well, for example having to use a limited space, but getting the correct gist of the scene, casting jack and his acting, and the overall atmosphere was similar too I think. 

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