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Sunday Sketch: Recreate a Movie Scene

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Recreating this scene was super fun. I chose to do the movie/TV show M*A*S*H. M*A*S*H was a program about army medics in the Korean War who used a lot of humor to survive in the area. When creating the photo, I was thinking of ways I could implement not only myself into this project, but people/things that are of importance to me. Immediately, my mid went to my EEMS kiddos. I spend the majority of my time with them and we have all become a really tight group of friends. So, once I decided I wanted to use EEMS as a way to recreate a photo, I knew M*A*S*H was the perfect medium. Saying these guys were excited to recreate the photo was an understatement. They wanted the full effect with the red outfit and matching uniforms. We did our best and this is probably the best shot out of the 30 we took!

Sketch 9: Recreate a movie scene

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Chris Pratt holding raptors at Bay in Jurassic World

Chris Pratt holds the raptors at bay in Jurassic World.

Due: 4/8

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Choose a single moment from a movie or television episode and recreate that scene as closely as you can in a single photograph. Think about how you can creatively use wardrobe items or props that you already have at your disposal and the landscapes and building spaces available to you in order to create your scene. In fact, you might find that it’s best to begin by thinking about what you might be able to pull off and to work backward from there to choosing a scene.

By definition, you don’t have incredibly powerful movie cameras, cinematographers, a cast and crew, a prop and set design department, and CGI f/x staff for post production; therefore, you are never going to perfectly recreate any scene. However, with a little creativity you can still create a powerful version of a scene even without all that fancy paraphernalia, as in the version of Jurassic World at the top of this post and others seen here.

 

Poster for Lost in Translation
Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait of 1500
My recreation of Durer's self-portrait

More than a decade ago, I recreated these scenes above as part of a larger photographic creative project. For my version of Lost in Translation, I rearranged the furniture in my bedroom and borrowed my wife’s bathrobe. I could never quite get the tilt of my head right. For my recreation of Albrecht Dürer’s Self Portrait of 1500, I couldn’t reproduce the proportions because I was required to make all my shots 4×3 landscape photos and my hair wasn’t long enough to quite pull off the portrait. But I bought a black plastic tablecloth for 99 cents for the background and made the sleeve decorations with crayons on paper. I used a fuzzy scarf and an old leather jacket for the clothes. Despite taking numerous shots and studying the painting very, very closely, I could never get my right hand into exactly the correct position.

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