This clip is a remake of the opening of a Hong Kong film Exodus in 2007. I think it is good to film a remake to understand how directors making a film perfect. I chose to film this opening because it is one of the best long takes I have ever seen. Martin Scorsese’s are good but a bit boring to watch again and again. This shot was very challenging that I had to change the focal length and focus during the shot, and the hardest part was I had to do those things by myself. When I was on set, I showed the original clip to the actors to explain how would I shoot, and did rehearsal to make the blocking perfect. Then, in the real recording, I found it was very hard to control what I planned to do. The tracking speed was not consistent, sometimes out of focus. But I started to repeat the shooting over, I finished this single long take with 3 takes.

In the editing part, I added the slow motion and stabilizer to make the clip looks much better than the raw clip. And I found the colour tone and the background music could help creating the scary atmosphere a lot, it built up the tension from the start to the end of the clip.