Love actually

Planning

Our task was to create a short film from a clip in Love actually, the scene were the Prime minister first meets Natalie. In my group is Molly, Olivia, Will and I. First, we created a storyboard to plan an initial idea of what we are going to do, which included the different type of shots we were going include such as long shots at the starts a close ups in the Prime minister when he gets to Natalie.

Will started a group chat on Facebook to arrange cast members and where we would film to keep everyone updated even whilst we were at home. We didn't allocate roles we just decided to work together to be more productive. We also organised various props and meeting times such as Tuesday after school.

For the props we have organised a cast member to dress up as a woman using a wig and make up from home because there was no girls willing to act for us, by dressing up it will achieve a more realistic film. Originally we wanted to use little children to act although after a while of thinking we decided they would be pain to organise and wouldn't learn the lines, so we settled for other students who would be ready straight after school and would already be in their suits: which would suit their roles.

 We then needed a scene so we have tried to make contact with a vicar from the Abbey church in Wymondham and are currently awaiting a call back to see if we can use their premises. We thought this was a good idea because the place if big and posh like in the film, also it means we can film inside which avoids bad weather conditions such as lots of wind would mean it would hard to pick up speech on camera. We also looked at various hotels in Wymondham, although we weren't allowed to use their premises unless we booked a room.

Filming

Tuesday after school we met at the media room and decided to go to the church and film: despite not getting in touch with the vicar.

However, next time we need to be more organised because not all the actors turned up so one of the boys had to play three different people. To make it clear to the audience he was a different person each time we used a wig and changed the style of it for the two girls, so one point he had the hair from the wig tied up and the next he had it down, we also put makeup on him which it made it comical.

Will did the filming and the rest of the group and I directed, which involved telling will what camera angles to do and what the actors should be doing. Although there are things we didn't all agree with such as will wanted to make the clip really funny by adding extra words and different shots so we had to comprise.

We decided will should edit the videos because he is comfortable with using the software and has previous editing experience on adobe premier. This morning we completed the audio section of the love actually scene. We downloaded various sound effects from Youtube and added them to the clip in the appropriate areas. Sounds included a kissing sound and an audience applause as the PM walks into the building. Then we downloaded it as a media file to complete the scene.