The Making of The Breakfast Club Swede

Over the past few weeks, my group has worked on the production of our swede of The Breakfast Club. Now, we are almost finished, despite a bit of tweaking.
In the early stages, we started with making a storyboard of all the scenes we wanted to film, however, we couldn't visualise all the angles on paper as it would have taken too long. But we had our plan in mind. We decided the scenes would be:

• The introduction which explains the setting of the film by showing Bender (Lou) entering the school and text to explain that it was Saturday morning detention.
• The lunch scene in which there are a lot of comedic moments and introduces the character's personalities in what they eat.
• The chase scene which includes changing shots between Vernon and our group running in the corridors.
• The circle scene where some of the more deep themes are shown.
• The dance scene as it is the most iconic.
• The end scene in which Bender throws his fist into the air as the screen fades.

On our first day of filming, as we did not need any props, we wore outfits that were as close to our character's as possible (I played Claire) and filmed the lunch scene and started the dance scene. Our earliest mistake was in some scenes in the lunch scene including Claire's lunch. At some point, the pause, stop and play buttons were mixed up, causing us to end up with the footage inbetween the takes, meaning that in later days we had to re-shoot those scenes. However, this wasn't that difficult to do and didn't harm our time management. The dancing scene took longer as there were many different shots. We took the audio from the film which is the song 'We Are Not Alone' by Karla Devito, and used the song out loud as a reference to keeping in time. Shortly after this was finished we filmed the ending scenes on the field in which the famously know song 'Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds will play.

The next scene we filmed after school and it was the corridor chase scene as we could take advantage of the empty hallways. We used different angles from our tripod. One shot was filmed with us running towards the camera whilst it was pulled backwards, following us as we ran. Another was a low angle shot, showing our feet as we ran. We were able to feature our teacher Miss Eardley in it as the teacher, Richard Vernon. 

On a separate day, we filmed the circle scene, however, we shorted it a lot from our initial idea. We also filmed an extra whistling scene. We then filmed Lou entering the school and some still shots of us looking at the camera to use in the ending speech as we had not got enough footage to fit.

The last scene we shot was Vernon and Bender arguing over detentions. This was not in our initial plan but we deemed it necessary to add it near the start to establish that Bender is the rebellious character, and that Miss was the detention's teacher.

For most of the scenes we either took audio from the film, or used the songs from the film's soundtrack in the background. We uploaded and edited scenes along the way to ensure we had all the scenes we needed. It allowed to have a clearer idea of what we needed to do when we next filmed. Thanks to Gemma, all of the editing is complete, including rolling credits and background music. Some bloopers may be added as we were we left with some very funny clips.

The picture at the start of this post is our impersonation of the iconic Breakfast Club poster which we wanted to be at the end of the credits and also used in out twitter: https://twitter.com/theswedeclub

I felt our group was very enthusiastic about this project, from the dancing to the songs, we had a lot of fun making it.

Keep posted!
- Phoebe