Thursday, 24 September 2015

Love Actually - Production

We decided to start with the PM coming out of a car to show he just arrived at his house. We did a low shot of the car door opening and his feet stepping out the car, and then we continued it with a moving shot of Ed doing up his jacket and adjusting his tie. Next shot was at the door and match on action of Ed walking up to the door waving and from the other side of the door him coming through. We plan to edit in crowd sound effect afterwards, we found a mixture of different sound effects online to download and blended them together to make it more realistic. As he entered we faded out the sound effects but only cut them off when the door closed.

Throughout the whole thing we added a de-noisier and changed the brightness especially inside which was rather dark we also had another person holding a light on set to make the scene brighter. We did two shot/reverse shot for the two conversations between pat and the PM and Natalie and the PM, this meant we could clearly hear their lines and got a close up of their faces to capture their facial expressions. We only had a small section of corridor to film in so we did separate shots using the same section of wall. We did a few takes because of things like looking at the camera and had to skip Terence because we didn't have enough actors, as well as the end because the camera ran out of charge but you cant really notice and it doesn't look like its been cut off before the end. We had planned to do these bits in front of the green screen but we didn't have a lot of time. We played around we lighting in editing and volume level. I would have preferred a plainer location because stuff in the background could be distracting.

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