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Friday 18 September 2015

Love Actually

Love Actualy

Genres: Drama, Romance.
Country: UK, USA, France
Love Actually (2003) PosterRelease date: 14 November 2003
Budget: $45,000,000
Production Co: Universal Studios, Studio canal, Working title, etc.
Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS.

 
First 50 sec are those Production companies.
These are the three companies that are shown in title sequence. Universal is one of the well known ones as a conglomerate, it also owns Working Title, however, Working Title also owns WT2 and various others.


The scene starts on 52 sec. It fades from black and straight away we could see a backpacker going towards her boyfriend or husband. The camera used pan to track the backpacker. The camera focus was soft on the people surrounding them and had a sharp focus on the couple. She is a backpacker so that might tell the audience that she is just came from somewhere. Since we haven't been given the location we could suggest that they are at the train-station or airport.
The camera at the same time was on the eye level so it gave the audience the feeling that they are at that place. The camera focus allows us to see the emotions on his face, he had a relief face.

Then the camera cuts to the the family, to two girls who are hugging their aunt or mother perhaps.  Denotation of girls having a huge smile on and they gave her a hug which may suggest that they are very close.
The camera cuts from the couple to that family however, the camera zooms out of the homers arms which connotations are they are open and that tells the audience that she wants to give a hug, the camera then goes to the long shot to show other characters. After in zooms in to the little girls and pans to the right to show their motion.

Camera then cuts to the other older people. The connotation of them hugging might suggest that they are very close, they might be sisters or cousins or just old friends. The scene goes in slow motion.
This might be made to show how love is like, it can be not only around young couples, it could be also around old friends and families.

After camera cuts to the family and midst is used. A women hugging a little girl. The way that the women hugs the little girl may suggest that she hasn't seen her for a long time. The women may be little girls mother or aunt or someone very close. The scene goes in slow motion again. This happens when you could see older people and children. This may suggest that love is everywhere in youth as well as in adulthood.

The camera then cuts to two teenagers who have arrived from somewhere and they are hugging older people which may suggest that they are their grandparents. The camera then cuts in every 4 sec to different people. Mid shot is used overtime.
The camera continues to take shots of different people with different races and ages, with a man voice overing the scenes. His voice appears at 1.14 his descriptions match with one screen. He describes the atmosphere and because of him we know that all those actions happened in Heathrow airport. At 1.53 his words match the words which appeared on the screen "love actually is all around", at 1.58 words "is all around" disappear and only "Love actually" stays, the word "love changes to red colour. The transition happens the screen fades to black at 2.02.

A new scene appears at 2.08 at a radio station. Connotation of this scene is that there is an old man who is wearing headphones, he background is plain and made out of wood. This may suggest that this  man is in a studio. He is also making different hand gestures with may suggest to the audience that he knows this song very well and he is about to sing. At 2.10 the man starts to sing. The song is from 'Wet wet wet' called "love is all around". The mid shot is used to show to the audience that he is the main character. long shot is then used to show the setting. After at 2.20 long shot is used to show the other site of the studio outside of it. at 2.22 the camera returns to the main character and then back to the produces to show his face and emotions mid shot is used. at 2.27 the camera returns to the main character however, with a different angle, at 2.28 it returns back to the producer however he gets closer to the glass to tell the main character that he messed up the song. The mid shot is used again to show the impression of producer and his worker. At 2.29 it returns to the main character and he explains why he got it wrong. At 2.44 the character takes another chance and starts singing and now the audience could see the background artists singing to his song. The establishing shot is used. At 2.46 the names of artists appear and their first letter appears in red to relate to the movie. At 3.34 a hight angle shot is used. Eight names appeared in the screen that shows that they are famous and would be the main characters in this movie. The opening finishes with a mid shot of the singer.

1 comment:

DB said...

Proofread/layout: Check for images that don’t load. Check for small text (e.g. budget here). Budgets: $45m, not $45,000,000. Leave a blank line between paragraphs AND/OR use sub-headings in capitals: e.g. IDENTS. Much easier to find and see your research. Post needs more imagery, and you could write it up better/more accurately now with your stronger grasp of media language and semiotics.