Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Love Actually - 2 Minute Introduction Analysis

This film starts in a busy airport just after the 9/11 bombings in America. It is showing all the people that survived or witnessed this terrible ordeal arriving back home well and safe, and how all their family members and friends reacted. It shows how all the people are pushing each other out of the way in their eagerness to find their missing family members and their arriving back off of their planes.
It is cutting between a number of different scenes of people finally finding their relatives, with the mid shot throughout. At the very beginning though, it is at shoulder view:
A man pushing his way through the crowd and finally finding a red-headed woman who hugs him and they then kiss, which then cuts to a woman and two children running up to her and a long shot which then zooms back in to a mid shot which then cuts to 2 women hugging. This then goes on to cut to a woman picking up little girl and hugging her tightly.
As the above starts happening, there's a voice-over of male voice talking about how love is around and about how when the planes hit the twin towers all the messages sent to the lost or dying people were all messages of love, not of hatred and dislike.
Whilst this is happening, their are still scenes flicking across the screen of people being reunited:
Cuts to a woman running up to her sister and hugging her, which then cuts to a girl hugging her dad, a husband and wife hugging, a baby boy and dad hugging and then the little boy kissing his dad on the cheek, a mother and young daughter hugging and laughing, 2 old men walking up to each other and hugging, a man and woman kissing, a woman crying and hugging her husband, two women hugging.
Then whilst a man and woman are hugging, the words "Love actually is all around", comes up at the bottom of the screen in red and white writing. Whilst this is on the on there is still different scenes cutting acrosss the screen: a man swinging a little boy in the air, a man, woman and teenage girl hugging each other.
Then the words "is all around" disappear and the words "Love Actually" are just left at the bottom of the screen.
This background screen of people hugging then fades out to just leave the words "Love Actually" on a black screen.
Throughout the duration of the 2-minute introduction, the camera keeps a mid-shot of everyone.

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