Love Actually - Pre production

We were given a piece of script and 2 weeks to film and edit this scene. We needed a cast, location, costume and a storyboard. A date to film and enough time to edit our footage. As a group we decided to all help out instead of allocating roles. We brainstormed locations and people for a our cast and then set out jobs to do before next lesson. After this we discussed a date of when we were all available for filming.

Location - In the movie the scene is set at 10 downing street, as we don't have access to that we chose a manor, grand house which would be believable as the prime minsters house. I looked up similar locations and found several hall/hotels which suited what we wanted, I phoned up Caistor hall to see if they would be happy for us to film on their location, however they never replied. So we also tried Park Farm they also didn't get back with in our deadline. So we ended up asking friends who had a suitable house whether we could use their house, one of them agreed so we had a location.

Cast - As a group we found cast rather hard because it was hard to set a date without knowing the location and time and people had to be available on short notice. So we decided to properly cast the PM and Natalie as these people needed to have more acting experience. For the rest of the cast we decided see who was available at the time because they only had a few lines therefore didn't need great acting skills. Ed was our PM because his personality fitted with the character in the script, and Libby as our Natalie because she is a good actor and she also fitted quite well as innocent, nervous Natalie. Me and Kate had to fill in the other parts as Annie and Pat because people were not available
and dropped out at the last minute.

For costume, I ask Ed to wear a smart black suit, to appear like a prime minister. Libby, me and Kate all wore smart looking clothes, white blouses. We didn't need to worry about bottom half because it was never on camera.