''Love Actually'' - Production plan continued

Last lesson My group and I continued planning our recreation of the first 2-3 minutes of the film of our choice, Love Actually. We had previously decided on three locations where we would ideally like to shoot: Norwich train station, Norwich airport and Chapelfield shopping centre, also in Norwich. Therefore we spent the start of the lesson using the internet to research the telephone numbers of these places in order to ring the companies to see if they would allow us to film in their associations.  Thankfully, they all agreed and we arranged a set time and date with each of them so that they knew when to except us. After getting permission from the places where we wanted to film, we then sat down and wrote an email to our schools Deputy head Dr Fox. During the first couple of minutes of Love actually actor Colin Firth does a voice over, meaning we to needed someone to do a voice over for our recreation of the film. We decided on Dr Fox as we felt his voice was appropriate for the film. Consequently, we then wrote him an email consisting of three elements, a) asking him whether he would kindly participate b) with various times and days of when we as a group could have the time to meet him and record his voice - either during media lessons or at break and lunch. c) and finally, including a copy of the script from Love Actually stating what lines he would need to say.

The next part of the lesson was spent looking at various different clips of televisions shows such as: Gavin and Stacy and Early Doors, plus others. The purpose of this was to evaluate each scene and look at what camera shots were used and  whether they included an establishing shot, the 180 rule, diegetic/non diegetic sound and how they were edited. Doing this allowed me and my group to see how using different camera shots and techniques can be effective and made us think about what to use in our own production.

Next lesson we hope to do a storyboard of different shots for our short film, which will helps us to make it more interesting for our audience, as well as the fact when getting to our locations to shoot, our shots would have already been planned, meaning no time would be being wasted.