WWW: You’ve met the requirements of the task and posted a video alongside a very solid evaluation.
The video has real potential despite the obvious flaws. The opening is engaging and throwing the audience straight into the fight works really well. Certain shots such as the POV punch to end it show both creativity and technical expertise. Your evaluation is quite extensive and offers some honest assessment of the strengths and weaknesses. The strongest aspect of the evaluation by some distance is the specific analysis of certain aspects of film language alongside the exact timing from the film (e.g. lighting; sound). You also acknowledge the weaknesses of the production.
EBI: There are still definite areas to improve in both the video and evaluation. In terms of the video, despite the creative potential you haven’t quite met the original brief – and you do break the 180 degree rule once. As you discuss in the evaluation, the audio levels mean it is impossible to follow any kind of narrative. This is not a major issue – it’s exactly why we do the preliminary exercise. But you do need to make sure you learn from this!
For the evaluation, you need to think about structure and planning. For your first paragraph, you spend a lot of time appearing to write about how good your planning was before throwing in a sentence at the very end of the paragraph saying you didn’t put in any effort. It suggests a lack of thought and structure to your ideas.
Still on structure, your next paragraph evaluating the actual production is nearly 800 words – you NEED to organise your ideas and use paragraphs effectively.
Finally, the first half of your evaluation contains far too much description. In an evaluation, don’t describe what shot-reverse-shot is, analyse your use of it and the effect on your audience. You do this much better in the second half when looking at lighting and sound.
LR: Write a list of FIVE things you will do differently for the main coursework and evaluation as a result of your experience of the preliminary exercise and the feedback you have received above.
The five things I will do differently for the main coursework and evaluation are
I will need to communicate well with my group members in order to understand fully about everything
As a group, we all need to be organised and plan well before our production
For the evaluation, I will need to think about the way I structure my ideas in paragraphs. It is quite misleading to the teachers and myself.
Also, I will need to shorten down the repetition with the same ideas and perhaps think more briefly about the rights and the wrongs.
Lastly, I will need to think about the organising of my ideas and paragraphs and how i can use them effectively.
1) Research the BBFC: what is the institution responsible for? How is it funded? What link does it have to government? The BBFC is an independant company in the UK that provide age ratings and classifications to movies before they are released. Moreover, BBFC's main goal is to reward certificates for age ratings to restrict and also, to target the right audience. 2) Read this BBFC guide to how films are rated. Summarise the process in 50 words. The way BBFC rate films is that they look at what kind of things is involved within the movie. If there are many violence and inappropriate scenes, it would most likely be 15+ or 18+ which helps to restrict kids that younger than 15 or 18 to watch the movie depending on what the age rating is given by the BBFC company. BBFC want to separate these graphical content away from the children so that they don't get influenced. 3) Read this BBFC outline of the issues faced when classifying a film. Summarise the debate in 50 words. BBFC firstly think about whether the content that they are about to rate and classify is suitable for certain ages. Also, with some graphical content, they think that the unintended viewers will be influenced and harmed by what is shown. This is down to the events and actions that are shown in the plot of the movie. 4) Read this BBFC section on controversial decisions. Why did The Dark Knight generate a large amount of media coverage regarding its certificate? Do you agree with the 12A certificate The Dark Knight was awarded? The independant company "BBFC" sometimes give particular age ratings to a movie which some people will argue that the movie doesn't meet that particular age rating. For example, the movie "Dark Knight" which is about Batman, it was rated 12A even though it included many horrific, graphical and innappropriate scenes which shouldn't be allowed to be seen by kids that are 12 or 15 younger. I think the generic problem was that the movie was rated the wrong age rating and this led to the moie generating a large amount of media coverage as younger kids younger than 15 were allowed to go to the cinema and watch the film. It had a wider audience involving kids at the age of 12 or older. Moreover, I don't quite agree with the 12A certificate as I thought it involved many scenes that included weapons, blood and strong language. 5) What are the guidelines for a 15 certificate? When classing a film, there are many things that have to be visualised in order to rate a film 15. Language: For 15 age rating, there could be little scenes with minor heavy language but with strong language in many scenes could be forbidden. Sexual Content - Nudity : Sexual content or nudity of both gender may be accepted for few terms such as education but however, the key parts of the body must not be shown within the camera frame. Violence: Violence are accepted but however, violence that leads to a huge amount of blood or brutality could be prohibited. Also, violence that include sexual acts are also prohibited. Drugs: It is important to not clarify much details about certain drugs that they use within the movie. But however, it is allowed. Threat: Threat could be allowed but it depends on what kind of threat and how much it goes over the top. Movies that are 15 must not show rape in action as it is a huge problem in the society and showing this in the film could negatively influence more. 6) The BBFC website offers an explanation of every classification it makes and detailed case studies on selected titles. Choose one 15-rated film from the BBFC case studies section and summarise the classification the film was given and why.
For a 15 rated film, I have chosen to talk about Deadpool. With the classification, the movie was rated 15 due to the actions and events that took place within the narrative of the movie. Firstly, within the movie, it did contain strong language but it didn't reach up to an extent amount where the movie wouldn't be classified as a 15 rated movie. Also, with the innapropriate content such as Sex, it was shown but the bodies were detailed espeically the key parts that are not meant to be shown. Moreover, with violence, there was horrific moments where blood was shown and many fights occured but no threats such as rape or any other harmful thing to the audience was shown. Lastly, there was no discrimination towards any other people or races.
It follows This is a frightening scene with a mixture of fast-paced and slow-paced editing which makes the scene more elegant linking with the genre of the movie which is horror. This movie is a supernatural psychological horror film that was released in 2014. It was directed and written by David Robert Mitchell. Firstly, starting off with the non-diegetic sound within the scene, I can clarify that the non-diegetic sound certainly makes the atmosphere with the audience more intense as it is almost a heavy, deep bass sound that builds up as the ghost-like person appears from the beginning of the scene. With more brief, the beginning of the scene, we see the characters sitting down and the non-diegetic was then more silent. Then we eventually see the main character's hair being stood up out of nowhere. When this happened, the non-diegetic became deeper and louder, indicating how the following part of the scene is going to be intense within the audience and dangerous for the characters. Furthermore, moving onto 2:13 of the video, we see the sudden pop up of the kid that is supposedly the ghost. When the kid appeared through the hole of the door, the non-diegetic appeared once again and it was more louder. It makes the entrance of the ghost more dramatic and it makes the ghost look extremely dangerous. Moreover, the non-diegetic within the whole scene is parallel to the scene which makes it more understandable and better for the audience. Additionally, with the setting of the scene, it is on a isolated and solitary beach which lays somewhere in North America. The idea that the scene takes place in a solitary beach is that it's quite unusual to see a horror event taking place out in the public. Mainly, in horror films, we see horror events taking place inside the home of the people. In addition, the props within the scene are the gun and the car. The gun is there for her protection from the terrifying ghost. And the car is there for her to escape from the ghost. Additionally, there were variety of different shots within the scene to make it more significant. For example, from 2:38, there is a wide shot from inside the car, showing the character running away from the ghost, towards the car. The fact that this camera is placed inside the car makes us as an audience think suspicion of someone else being in that car too. It builds up intensity and anxiety. With the age rating, I think this movie scene indicates that this movie is a 15+ movie, mainly being targeted at younger adults and teenagers. The age would vary from 15 to 30 perhaps. I think this would appeal to younger adults and teenagers because the actors are all young too so the audience could relate to the problems and them having suspicion of danger with them in real life. Moreover, there are alot of sex involved in this movie which makes it more understandable on why younger adults and teenagers would be appealed by this movie. Elderly people are more mature and wouldn't want to coporate with any movies that include sex. However, with the target audience, I think they would be appealed by the innapropriate content in this movie and therefore, they are the target audience of this movie. Moreover, I think that male are likely to watch this movie more than female with the percentage of 55% for the male and 45% for the female. This is because it includes a male character that started all this curse on the main character.
Girlhood
This scene is from the movie "Girlhood". The movie is about a girl called "Marieme" and how she joins a gang and her attitude and behaviour starts to change. This movie falls into the drama category and was released in 2014. Within this scene, we hear the girls speaking a foreign language which was french. Within this scene, we see that Marieme learns how to dance from her bad influential friends that influence her pessimistically. Firstly, in the beginning of the scene, we are immediately shown a close up shot of her friend. This close up shot allows us to see her facial expressions and the way she disrespects the public. It allows us as an audience to look at how spoilt she is with her movements in the Subway in front of everyone. With the sound within the movie scene, I don't think there was any non-diegetic sound as there weren't any dramatic scenes. However, there were diegetic sounds. The first one was the music that the group of girls were dancing to. Secondly, the language the girls are speaking. Thirdly, the very low sound of the train moving. In addition, within the whole scene, the camera seemed steady and not hesitant as it kept moving to different characters without any shaking. Lastly, the actors throughout the whole video remain full of energy and active on the subway as they are thoroughly dancing and forcing Marieme to dance too.
The age rating of this movie "Girlhood" was 15+ due to the strong language, violence and a lot of scenes showing drug use with the characters. With the age variation, I think it would vary from 15 to 30 again due to the following reasons. This movie is written and directed to reflect on real life events that take place with people being misled by wrong friends and suddenly they start to change themselves. These problems are mainly constant within many teenagers and young adults that follow the wrong footsteps and then are completely changed by their friends into a misbehaving person. Moreover, I think this age would be suitable for this movie as this is a coming of age films therefore it is more suitable to people aged from 15 to 30. Lastly, I think the percentage of gender to be appealed by this film would be 55% female and 45% male. I think this is the case because within the movie, we have the main characters that are female so more females can relate with the female characters and the issues that they are facing.
Donnie Darko
For my third research, I have chosen to analyse the movie scene from "Donnie Darko". This movie falls into the drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genre category. Also, this movie was directed and written by Richard Kelly and was released in 2001. Moving on, within the scene, we see a male character speaking to a female character about his mental state and he tells her about his experience when he was young with a girl that told him that time travel exists. Moreover, as we as an audience immediately knew the setting of the scene which seems to be in a house of his own perhaps. Also, the clothing of the two individuals are a complete contrast. The male character Donnie is wearing casual clothes whereas the female character that is interrogating Donnie is wearing smart clothes, which makes her look more professional. Moreover, within the whole scene, we don't have a non-diegetic sound. The atmosphere within the scene seems to be dull and dead as it is a slow-paced scene with no dramatic non-diegetic sounds or any other diegetic sounds. Additionally, the lighting within the scene is more low-key than high-key as no lighting is used. The natural sunlight is used but is covered by the blinds to make the scene more artificial and significant. Also, the editing within the scene is very slow making it dull for the audience. Lastly, the props within the scene is the book that the female character is using to write down what Donnie says.
The age rating of the movie "Donnie Darko" was a 15+ which makes it understandable as not much inappropriate scenes are shown but there are still strong language and psychological horror being included in the movie. The age of what this movie would appeal to would most likely be from 15 to 35 because I think you would have to be a little older to understand the mental issues of the character "Donnie". Also, with the main character being male and the whole narrative being based around him makes it more appealing to the males as they would see something relatable. Lastly, with the percentage of the gender, I think male is 60% and female is 40% due to the genre of the movie. The genre of the movie is Science fiction with thriller and drama which mainly males are appealed by. They want to see violence within the movie so that it can entertain them.
Boyz N the Hood
For my fourth existing product research, I have decided to analyse Boyz n the hood. Boyz n the hood is drama and a coming of age movie that was directed by John Singleton and released in 1991. A movie like Boyz n the hood is one of the most elegant and artificial movies due to the creative narrative and the layout of the movie. Within this scene from Boyz n the hood, it shows a burglary been taken in place where a thief invades the house in a stealth mode. Moreover, when the scene began, I could immediately hear the contrapuntal non-diegetic that did not fit in with the scene. In the scene, we see a thief in the house and a trumpet like non-diegetic sound is used which makes it more hilarious for the thief as it helps us to realise that the thief is going to flee or get caught due to the sound. Moreover, at 0:25, we hear the non-diegetic sound louden up as the dad gets his gun ready. The sound getting louder as the gun is being prepared just shows the slow build up and the intenisty within the scene as well as the heated atmosphere. Additionally, moving onto the diegetic sound, at 0:05, we hear the water drops starting to occur which helps us as an audience to understand the upcoming danger within the scene. Furthermore, the lighting within the scene is certainly more low-key lighting than high key which links up with the whats happening within the scene. The lighting is artificial and makes the scene look more terrifying. Moving on, the props within the scene is we see a gun which the father has. The gun is used for himself and his son's protection from the thief. Also, the setting seems to be a house of the father's.
The age rating for this movie is 15+ which totally makes sense as the movie contains strong language, censored scenes and violence. The age variation of this movie would be 15 to 30 as in those ages, many people face the problem that is shown in this movie. Also, the movie includes many young males which helps it to understand that this movie would appeal to that range of age. Lastly, the male would be 70% and the female would be 30% due to the problems shown in the movie which many men can relate with, not females. More males face the problems shown in the movie than females.
United 93
This is a film clip from the movie "United 93" which was based on the 9/11 terrorist attack that took place on the September 11 2001 when the 4 planes were hijacked and driven into other buildings such as the Twin towers that were completely destroyed. The setting is within the plane which is the flight 93 which was the number of the flight in the real event. Within the clip, it shows people fighting back the hijackers so that they can survive. Within the clip, there are many medium and close up shots which help us as an audience to see the character's facial expression during the event taking place. Moreover, with the camera, the camera is always shaking and not steady which is trying to make the event look realistic which reinforces it as the event was real. Furthermore, there is a non-diegetic sound which plays as the background music and it is almost like a depressing sound which is completely parallel to whats happening within the scene. Also, it makes the scene look more dramatic with the way it is. Also, the actor placement is known to be played as the people who actually died in the airplane crash.
I think with the age variation, it would appeal to people that are aged from 20 to 60 as it has many scenes containing graphical and disheartening moments. Also, it is a hysterical event that actually took place and elderly people are known to be more appealed to history. Also, the elderly people are bound to be more epathatic with the people that died due to this horrific terrorist attack. Lastly, I think the gender would be 55% male and 50%female as male are tend to handle these disheartening true events that took place and the innocent lives that were taken away.
