Tuesday, 11 October 2011

The Hangover

We have been given the task of recreating the opening two minutes of Todd Phillips famous 2009 film 'The Hangover' our aim was to attempt to make it a true shot for shot remake! Our group consists of 6 people, Caitlin, Alice, Lily, Lizzie, Megan and I.

 The Hangover follows the characters of Phil, Stu and Alan, who awaken in Las Vegas after a bachelor party to find they have no memory of the previous night's events and are missing their friend Doug, whose wedding is scheduled to occur the next day. The story was partially inspired by the filmmakers' real-life misadventures.
The Hangover was filmed on a budget of $35 million and was released in North America on June 5, 2009, becoming a critical and commercial success. It became the tenth highest-grossing film of 2009, with a worldwide gross of over US$467 million. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and received multiple other accolades.
In class, our group watched the video numerous times picking out various props, locations and characters needed. In class we were advised to have allocated roles e.g director, producer etc, we on the other hand decided against roles as such and just agreed to chip in ideas when appropriate. Obviously being As media students we have an extremely low budget, however we did our best to find locations and props which were most similar to the film it's self, which we were most pedantic about.
Props:
Wedding Dress
Bridesmaid Dresse (x3)
Mannequin
Mirror
Wedding cake
Phones
Sunglasses
Car
White robe
Flowers
Van
Clothes rail
numerous chairs
Hair brush
sofa (x2)
Newspaper
Building


Cast:
Phil
Stu
Alan
Doug
Tracey
Tracey's father
Tracey's mother
Bridesmaid 1
Bridesmaid 2

Song needed: I'ts now or never- El Vez

Filming Day 1 - 09/10/2011


Today was the day of the shoot for Phils scene. This scene was left down to Caitlin, Alice and I as other members were busy! (we decided to let megan have the day off as it was her birthday) 


In The Hangover, the location is a desert, and there is a wonderfully bright pastel sky as the sun is about to set. We had wind and rain, we considered re-scheduling but despite the weather we continued the shoot.
We had originally asked sam to play phil, but unfortunately cancelled last minute, Caitlin however had luckily planned a back-up, who considering hadn't seen the lines before the day did very well! Thank you Alex Shaw!


 We did this shoot at my Family Farm where my Uncle had an old car which we used, We had screen shot stills of the different framing needed for this short scene, Alice brought her laptop and a disk so we could watch the part we were filming. For phils 'blood/dirt' make-up caitling brought red lipstick which Alex felt uncomftable wearing, so we had to slum it with red pen, which worked well!


Caitling and I both read the lines for tracey, so phil could reply to them! Alice and Caitlin played the boys in the background sitting on the car whilst I filmed!
I feel this shoot went very well, considering i didn't know Caitlin or Alice before hand, we worked very well as a team and I'd be more than happy to work with them both again.


Next Sunday we are going to park farm to shoot a couple of other scenes, whom Alice phoned up, and they were very understanding and did not hesitate to say yes! I am looking Foreward to working with the whole group! Later on in the week Alice, Caitlin and I are going to one of Alice's Mum's friends house to film the cake scene as she is a cake designer!

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