The BBFC and their age rating work

For the BBFC guidelines (in which they use to determine their age ratings and insight to the movie) can be seen and downloaded by using the link below:
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202014_6.pdf

The BBFC and their age rating work

Editing my production together

I started editing the footage that i've taken together. One thing that i had to overcome was the time in which i was limited to. To resolve this i made sure i used the best shots i had that to portray the narrative of my production but still creating enigma. Firstly i started placing shots together, in any order, and cutting them down to size and making sure the colour between shots match. I added an over lay of shots onto certain scenes to add to the enigma and tension.

To ensure that all the shots matched we used an effect called, 'cool tones' over shots which weren't filmed in the darkroom. The effect was located on the right hand corner in a drop down box for filters, which can be seen below. 

After all the shots had the same colour continuous throughout the production, started looking for music. The resource which found my music was, www.youtube.com. Where i searched free copyright music for free. This is a drawback i found, trying to find the right soundtrack to be synchronous and parallel  to my production. 

After converting the soundtrack, and placing it in my opening sequence i editing it to make sure it would fit cutting an extra soundtrack at the end, which i believes fits with the narrative and production as it makes my opening have a sharp harsh ending, for a tension build up. 

My next step was to make all the credits, in my belief this was the hardest part of the production, i used the opening sequence of, 'se7en' to help shape my credits. Making sure to place them in shots that are effective and in the right position. I will use rule of thirds, to decide this. Each of my credits make up of 4 different edits- all of the same name, around the same area but in different sizes. The main credit is bold and big (which remains on the screen throughout the credit scene) with an effect called, 'earthquake' to connote a shaky tension fill to the production. The 3 other surrounding credits occur one after another, throughout the scene, they are faded to make sure that no attention is taken from the main credit. As i was not in the following lesson, and i'm the editor (my other two group workers didnt have the knowledge of creating the credits). Therefore to make their time more productive, i gave my partner my user and password so she could assess our work, and also copied and pasted an example credit in different scenes, so all they had to do was change the name. 

The title was also done using the same technique:

In certain shots, to break up the normality of the production i slowly down some shots, to make the scene look as if it's in someone's perceptive thats been slowed for the audience to catch subliminal messages. By slowing some shots down it can also be connoted that the point of view shot creates a sense of dizziness.

However, even though i have my sequence edited to extent, i still have editing to do.  After i have edited the credits in the right place and order to make them parallel and synchronous to our production.  I will run through the final touch ups of my work, making sure that all the shots and music fit, getting feedback from others, to ensure i have produced the most realistic opening sequence. 

Props and Costumes in my production.

Props and costumes used in my production.

Film Opening Questionnaire Analysis

After posting my questionnaire on social media and asking peers to complete it i analysed my results:

For my first question i started off simple, asking the audience their gender. This will allow me to get an overall sense of whom my production will be viewed by.
By having this knowledge i can then adaptable my production to full fill the needs of my audience or try to employ the other gender more.

 My second question i asked the age. This will again let me know which age my audience are therefore i will be able to make the production more relatable and effective to that age group. This question is also important as it allowed the producer to make the production age appropriate to their audience. i asked this question to allow me to infer if my outcome target audience of my thriller production had anything to do with the age group. Evidently shown in my analysis the questions answered were hugely by teens- this could effect my results massively

Question three, i asked the favourite genre. This comes after my background questions getting straight to the point.  This ensures people that my questionnaire is brief and straightforward- based on thoughts and views rather than having to think deeply about their answer. Clearly shown in my results, thriller and horror come head to head- this connotes my competition, as horror. My results could be greatly effected by the dominant gender that answered my questionnaire- making it stereotypical views of gender.

Finding out why their choice was their favourite is important. It allows me to have fields in which to work on and improve my work (for the future) to benefit more people- resulting into widening my audience. My results narrowed down to an understanding where the audience enjoyed and felt watch their were watching making it more powerful and realistic. I will know take this information and use it in my advantage to improve my production, by working on the narrative and mise-en-scene- making it more realistic. 

Results for question five was a mixture, the feminine style shone through with the romantic classic movies. However they were contrasted with the stereotypical masculine movies such as; friday the 13th. Taking a little of each of the movies and turning it into something unique to benefit all of my audience. I asked, 'What's the last movie you watch?' to them off guard giving me an fully honest answer. Giving me an insight of the regular movies they watch. The only problem with this question is if people don't remember or are untruthful on their answer.

Understanding the audiences main resource allowing them to watch their movies is important. It allows the distributor to know which network they should be making calls and contracts with. Depending on the results they can choose work on the networks that they don't watch to try and recruit more of an target demographic or even improve and develop on the networks they have. From my results they still be that the cinema and television are my main prime target source. 

Just like it was important for me to understand people's favourite genre, it's equally if not more important to understand who hates my production thriller or which genres are mostly hated. In my case my production is thriller, making me have a good head in the industry as thriller's have a 0% of hatred in my questionnaire. However i used this question is get an idea if my production genre was worth well, for example, if my production was rom-com the most least liked i would consider if i would be gaining enough audience, or i might take the challenge and make my production different but successful. 

Again this type of question is followed with a, 'why?'. Allowing people to give feedback, expressing their thoughts. i choose to ask 'why' so i would have a clear ideology of what to avoid in the making of my film opening. My results inferred that people unlike the fake and unrealistic side of productions, this connotes that i should make my production as realistic to make it fit the conventions of a genre and the needs of my audience. 

I made this question has simple and explicit to my genre, because i wanted a simple answer which could make a huge difference put in a improving working situation. My audience expect to see tension in a genre the most, therefore to improve my production i will make my piece to have a higher rating of tension throughout, to keep the audience eager for the rest of the film. Second most selected was mystery and cliff hangers, these can be linked directly together, where i can use them effectively to my advantage- as i am only creating a title sequence, i will be about to create lots of mystery and enigma. 

My last question, took a little more time from people whom completed the questionnaire, where they had to select things in an certain order due to their thoughts and views. By allowing the audience to place the different convention in their own order gave them the freedom to have a right in what they believed was important and what wasn't. My results show that most important was a narrative that creates mystery, this fits perfectly with my production, as i feel i have portrayed this effectively. To improve it i can ask feedback on my work and re-arrange shots and film shots in different angles to re-strict or give more information from the audience. 

Film and Prop Preparation.-JO RICH

As a group we all divided the props, to share responsibilities. On the Tuesday in our two hour media lesson we used it as an opportunity to complete the rest of our filming. However before can start our filming we had to prepare our props.
Firstly, we started by making an teddy look old ragged and weathered. To do this we smudged dirt and pulled at the stitching. For the crime thriller, serial killer vibe we added fake blood splatters to the teddy.
For the journal, the Killer would be making it in the shots, therefore we needed to make sure we had all the supplies needed to do so this included; fake blood, writing equipment, old photos, and hair.
The rest of the shots don't require any prop preparation therefore we started to film our shots, making sure to double them. We doubled each shots so we can pick on that worked best to place into our project to make it more realistic.


However after filming we realised we would need an extra hour or two to film, therefore we planned an extra lesson for us to ensure we have all the shots we need before piecing it together and editing. Just to finish up all the shots, partially shots of a notebook and newspaper articles. I will then need to audio record a voice over, even though I don't main on having a voice over. If our plan doesn't work out we have a back up plan to aid the situation.


All evidence of plannning and filming is below.

Evidence of my audience research

Psychographic

Prop Preparation and Filming in the darkroom.

Prop Preparation: 
Before i could film in Eastbury's Darkroom i needed to make the props, i used time after school and free period to do so.  This process was carried out like the following:

1. Firstly i had to take a traditional black and white camera into the studio and take photographs of my four subjects using a 2 point lighting system.
2.  After i developed the negatives and waited for them to dry.
3.  Once my negatives were ready to use, i developed the images pinning them up to dry. I also made random traditional black and white photographs for the background of the shots to make the working area and narrative more realistic. 

I also experimented with double and single exposure at different time periods, to get the best quality photographs which was best for the filming of my project. 

Filming: 
Our shots are cut up into two different locations, Jo Rich School and Eastbury Darkroom. Therefore i wanted to make sure that all the shots were filmed needed to be filmed in Eastbury were so we wouldn't have to go back and film, taking the time out of our editing. Using my screenplay i made a list of all the shots i needed to take and doubled them so i would have a few takes of every shot,  to make sure we would have enough good quality shots when it came to editing- choosing the best one that would fit. I also made a list of all the props i needed to take to ensure i wouldn't forget anything. In the filming process was fairly simple we took two hours, to film all the shots needed, with a few extra shots. However i had issues with the lighting has it was too dark for most of the shots to be visible, to over come this i used red lighting lamps to keep the lighting dark but visible on the camera without exposing the darkroom chemicals and photograph paper to light, and keeping the low key lighting weariness to the scenes.

Evidence of planning, filming and making the props are below.

Production Shedule