Love actually

Background information;

Budget: £30,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $59,365,105 (USA) (16 February 2004)

Production companies: Universal pictures, Studio canal, working title films (paris)

Main Cast: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson, Andrew Lincoln

In 2004 love actually made a profil of £17.8 million, as of 2007, all its films are distributed by universal pictures which owns a 67% stake in the company. Co producers are studio canal.
BBC films and private investors own the remaining part of the company

Studio Canal:
French based production and distribution company that owns the third largest film library in the world.Many working titles include:Four weddings and a funeral
Notting Hill
Bridget Jones Diary

Opening scene of Love Actually;

At the start the scene open's up at the airpot like a documentary montage, it seems like its reality. There is different cultural shots, the camera zooms into the faces whilst people are hugging to emphasise the different kinds of love they have for eachother, father and sons, husband and wifes, old freinds, girlfreinds and boyfreinds etc.  There is a random cutting of different pictures. There is also a narrator during the introduction, telling us what love is. There is slow motion of hugging and close ups, the narration is syncronised with the title.The opening is also done in a hand held style to imply that you are actually there.


  Love is printed in red which emphasises the colour of love, red is always the first letters and white are the last letters of the names that are printed on the screen. White is a pure colour, and a good mixture with red to emphasise love.

There is a change in the setting from this airpot documnetary montage to this office wher you can see a pc and phone, the office is very spacious and brightly lit (natural lighting) the demographic seems to be predominately of white upper middle class people in a big city with big houses and is mainly aimed at Americans. We can see that most of the people in the sequence are of this class by the way they are dresses; professional looking wearing formal trousers and shirts. Majority of the characters are of a Caucasian origin and the black people are seen to be on the periphery.

Halloween

 Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with debra hill  and starring Donals pleasance and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. Halloween starts off with with the studio logo "Compass international pictures release" , and then the name of the producer comes up (the monney men) "Moustaph akkad" who spend all the money on the films. Then the imagery starts too come in, there is a pumpkin is positioned on the left side of the screen giving a dramatic effect, we can see a full shot of this pumpkin but not the whole of the pumpkin just the face flashing to make it look frightning and disturbing to the veiwer. And the music at this point is very spooky and not too high just about right. Then up on the screen comes "John carpenters - HALOWEEN" but haloween is in bold and capitals, to simply signify what the movie is about. The movie "inroduces Jamie Lee Curtis" too show he must be a young star and can possibley be his first movie. As the camera zoom's into the pumpkin the musics frequency and tempo starts to increase. As the different names appear on screen, showing the different parts played in the movie, you can also clearly see that the colour of the names change in orange, yellow and RED. These 3 colours are related to horror, which gives negative connations of fire flames, red signifies death. The titles also fade in quickly but fade out much slower. Moving on the music throughout the whole film has it's own originality, the peice of music is like a child like piano, it's puchy and unconventonal. The music gets faster or slower, or the pitches of frequency changes according to what is happening in the different scenes, it matches the events very cleverly, to make it seem more exciting and dramatic. Towards the end we see a extreame close up show of the pumpkin to create a very dramatic effect. I also notices at the start of the introduction John carpenters name appeared and the last thing that appears is "directed by John carpenter".
  The starting scene opens with a master shot of the whole house.

Halloween 1978 (Trailer) from Roy Chen on Vimeo.