Film ratings

British Board for Film Classifications rugulates which rateing a film should recieve here in the UK. Every country has a different way of giving a film it certificate and may rate a film different than here in the UK.

The rateings the bbfc give to film released in the Uk;

U= universal

suitable for all

" It is impossible to predict what might upset any particular child. But a "U" film should be suitbale for audeinces aged four years and over. "U" films should be set within a postive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

since i did the premliminary task i feel i have learnt alot. one thing would be working in a group where the other members are always putting their ideas forward and listened to my ideas. i feel i learnt alot more about how different camera angles change the audiences perception of people or objects.

how did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract our audeince we researched into ghost films or films of the horror genre, one member of our group had recently seen paranormal activity so gave us ideas from that film as it was the most recent one out. We also took ideas from other films but changed them to make them orginal but look good. This is so we kept the audiences attention.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product would be for anyone over the age of 18. We decided that it should be this age because of the use of an Ouija board and by how dangerous it is to use it; it could make younger children think that it is safe to use one. Also because it is one of those types of horror film where it is unsuitable for anybody under the age of 18 to watch. The audience can appeal to either gender as it is not directed to a certain gender. We had previously research about film ratings and found that an 18 has violence, drugs, heavy swearing and much more in it. We decided it would appropriate that our film should be rated an 18.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

As i took media at GCSE i had experience of the software that the school had to make our project. The only thing that i had forgotten how to use was all the short cuts on the key board of the apple mac. Ehe only thing i found different was listeing to other peoples opinions before editing as last year i worked on my own.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My media product used, developed and challenged the forms and conventions of real media products in many different ways. By looking at previous opening title sequences of real horror and thriller films (paranormal activity and witchboard) i began to collect ideas and shots which i thought would be good to use within my own title sequence. I got the idea of how i wanted my finished product should look like, also how it should make the viewer feel by the lighting and the music. The atmosphere should create a suspense to keep the audience on the edge of their seats so they dont get bored or feel they cant follow what is going on. This was made by the use of the music, it was quite eerie and would sometimes leave an eerie silence in order to spook the audience. The music also fitted in with with the camera shots i had used.

When looking at the other opening title sequences one of the main thing is the credits, telling you who is in the film and who directed and edited it. One of the thing that my group didn't want to do was to just insert credits straight from imovie as they are rather plain and alot of other people in our class was using them so we wanted something original. So the idea of using a book as a diary was created, because of the era the ghost child is from we had to make a diary look old. To do this we stained the pages with coffee and tea to give it that aged look. Annie then wrote the credits in the book in neat old style writing, we included who was staring in the film and who edited and directed. We also have a diary entry written in the diary which is read out by Annie. This is how our film will start, with the book opening on its own.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I dont think that our opening title sequence represents a particular social group, i believe it appeals to all social groups the same. although, saying that it might appeal more to people who are into that kind of paranormal stuff. we did not want our opening title sequence to represent a film which is highly sterotyped like most other films are. For example, you know that an action movie will be full of women wearing revealing cloths and fast cars.

However, our film is to do with contacting the unkown, it might appeal to people like path readers,phychics and styptics. As they look into peoples past to tell people how they are doing or what they say about each other. The characters that we portray in our film are just your average every day students with no click they do not look like girly girls or a typical basketball player. they are noot seen as "popular" or "geeks" so it would maybe interest everyone (except the people who are scared of paranormal stuff).

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think that the media institution which might distribute my media product would be Paramount pictures. This is beacuse they distributed Paranormal Activity which in certain aspects is very similar to my finished product.

Also lionsgate might think about distributing my product as they have distributed other film of the same genre before.

Opening Title Sequence Child's Play

Music Part 2

For the background music we downloaded some music off of a copyright free website, which was called audio.lgfl.org.uk.

Improvments

After the screaning lesson on thursday we all got given contructive feedback/critisim.

Our class members and teacher nina moore told us that we could have;

• used a tripod on the book scene
• sort out the music so we only have ring-a-ring roses playing once
• maybe do a voice over fot the diary entry
• to add some fade in and outs

The Props

ouija board

Dolly and camera

Lighting table

Title book

Insents

The Cast

The Cast

Kathryn, Jade and Annie

Jade, Annie and Lawrence

Annie, Lawrence and Jade

Music

Music

As a group we all have decided for the music, we're going to record someone to sing the nursery rhyme 'Ring O Roses' as we thought that would connect with the opening title sequence quite nicley. As it's a little girl that is summond and lashes out in a fit of trumatisation, we thought 'Ring O Roses' will go well as it is one of the most popular rhymes known but it also will go very well and connect with the 360 degrees shot of the ouija board and the four actors.

It is often suggested that the rhyme relates to the symptoms of plague, specifically the Black Death. When song in a slow voice the poem sounds really scary, we recorded Annie slowly sing the song. After we had herd the recording we thought that it was alright but it could be better, so we are now going to get a young child to sing the nursery rhyme and also get someone to do a recording of a piano piece, that will over lap the singing of the nursery rhyme

re-shooting and location shots

re-shooting and location shots

As a result of the lack of our camera shots and angles we have decided to re-shoot.
This will take place after school on Tuesday 26th, in our Drama studio, however one disadvantage is that the dead line for this course work is on the 29th and we're all showing our opening title sequence in lesson on the 28th, and this doesn't give us alot of time to edit so we're all decided to use all spare lessons and will be staying after school Wednesday 27th for as long as need to get this project finished for the deadline.

We have decided to film in our Drama studio because the room is painted black which we thought would not only connot dark and scary but would also be great to have the lite candles against so you'll have that nice contrast and also the lighting of the candles on the video camera would show up lovey and would have that 'glow' effect.

The Big Picture

Film Group : Kathryn Powell, Annie Hopkins and Jade Mitton

Film Tittle : Child's Play

Characters : Matthew, Amelia, Samantha and John who are paraphycholgist searching for sprits
Mary - (Ghost) haunting because her parents have been killed

Setting : Set in a deserted victorian house, old fashioned, no help for them

Visual Style : Gradually gets darker and duller to connote the narrative getting darker and scarier

Narrative : Equilibrium - All 4 friends calm and happy talking etc

Problem - They disturb the ghost

Action - The ghost kills 3 of them

Resolution - One paraphycholgist survives , leading to sequel

Outside the Box : To make intertextual references to another film/group of films...

Reference to 6th sense - using colour - red tea lights/candles - blood in necklace scene

Peer Feedback :
Green - Know your story line and planned it well

Amber - Why is their reason to go in the house

Red - Describe ending in narrative- what happens before the sequel

Rough Cut

story board change

Story-board remake (second)

As a result of changing the title sequence by changing the credits, we have choosen to draw a second story board that will fit our new opening title sequences and its changes.

thought process throughout the project

Thought processes throughout the project

This is my reflective thought processes throughout the whole project where i will explain whats has happened and my thoughts on my Opening Title Sequence.


Thursday 12th November;
today we got given our groups, i was quiet pleased at i ended up with kathryn powell and annie hopkins and us three work well together as we found out in our continuity piece. we then decided to start thinking of an idea for our opening title sequence, annie wanted to do horror and me and kathryn agreed this would be good to do.

wednesday 18th november;
today we did our big picture where we discussed what the idea would be for our openinig title sequence.


Friday 15th January;
As me an kathryn was in an exam, annie had loaded our footage and start cutting up and deleting things which are not needed for example laughing, and she said she was really getting quite worried and 'stressed' because she had notice the lack of Camera angles and shot and personally we felt it really had brought down the whole footage as we and others thought the lighting was lite perfect.

we all agreed with annie, so now we all have decided as a group to re-shot our footage. And also we had noticed we didn't stick to our original plan; 'The Big Picture' because in our storyboards, we had 4 people doing the Ouija board and in our first shooting we only had two, so now we are going to try and stick with that original plan.

Wednesday 20th January;
Today in lesson, the whole group sat down and discussed our opening title sequence about re shooting and our ideas. we then came up with this new idea for the shooting of the Credits, instead of having the pan across, we're going to make this prop; a old looking book witch some how flys open onto the credits written inside in black ink.
firstly we thought this would look much better but also it would fit into our opening title sequence much better, as the writing will be written 'childish' of which would be the child that is summoned through the Ouija bored.

Tuesday 26th January;
Today the group decided to make our prop for the credits, a book.We decided to write a Diary Entry in it as an extra feature along side of the credits.Annie wrote in a joined handwriting italic, also we decided to write the title 'Child's Play' on the cover of the book instead of on the tags as we thought it would relate more. Also Annie came up with this idea that we could use perhaps with the Diary Entry; we could have an over voice of a girl to say the Entry, which we might add in, but we are not sure yet.We are re filming today after school and hopefully everything goes to plan, may have to stay a little late but luckily everyone is willing to. So lets see how it goes...

Thursday 28th January;
Today is the showing day to the rest of the class and I'm a bit nervous, as we are not completely finished. however, this is just a practise one so that groups can get feed back and be informed on how others think the sequence could be improved and why they like it. soon will make a new post on our feed backs and will appear below. Filming on the 26th went according to plan and the footage, personally, i think was better than the first time we shot as we had three actors rather than 2. the editing yesterday after school went okay too which i am pleased about. Today we also agreed to have an extra piece of sound in the background throughout the whole opening title sequence of a piano piece, of which our drama teacher Ian Emslie will compose for us once we shown him our title sequence. we are keeping the "ring o ring o roses" and that will appear a quarter way through on the 360 degrees. Showing time...

Production Process

During the production process we researched ouija boards, how they look and what happened when people played them. we printed off images and created our own ouija board to look like the photo we had.

when we was ready to shoot we set it up on a black table in a dark room with just the spot light on for effect. we changed the candles position a couple of times to see which layout of the candles looked better. when we was happy with the lighting and the postion of the actors we done a couple of test runs to see how it looked through the cameras eye.