Harriet to the Future

The Hallmark style Christmas film I wrote and directed is called 'Holly, Jolly Christmas', which was released on Friday 18th December 2020 (one week before Christmas). The development of 'Holly, Jolly Christmas' was challenging throughout all three stages of production, from creating a story and writing the script, to planning and preparing the production and all the way through to the filming and editing process. I found this one of the most challenging projects we've done at college as the initial brief for the project is to create a Hallmark Channel style made-for-television Christmas film. Although, I had a brief understanding of the codes and conventions of these particular films the channel produces and develops, I had a lack of knowledge and experience of the genre and style as I had never (and still haven't) watched an original Hallmark Christmas film. I was able to do some research into the style of programming the channel distributes and releases, whic...

After a large amount of time off college, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we were finally able to come back and start the second, and last, academic year of our course. Along with our teacher, Kelly, announcing to us we would be doing an immersive cinema experience, we were also told we would first be creating a Christmas film during our first term back. The previous year we had worked alongside the Year 2's during the production of their own adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' and Kelly thought it would be a great idea for us to do our own Christmas film, but there was a twist. We had to create a film that is in the style of a Hallmark Channel 'made for TV Christmas movie'. Due to the restrictions enforced by the Government, we were told that we would mainly be able to film on the college campus rather than a usual on location shoot, so the film had to be in a more modern day setting and time period. Kelly then told us a bit more about the Hallmark Channel and a bri...