Georgia Richardson

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Certificate Research:

U standing for Universal is rated to films which are suitable for all viewers. Examples include many family films such as Toy Story, The Beauty and the Beast and Sharktale.

PG standing for Parental guidance is rated to films which are also suitable for any age. However, some scenes may be unsuitable for young children under the age of 8. Such scenes may contain mild language and sex/drug references. Some examples of PG rated films are A Cinderella Story, Home alone and Maleficent.

12 standing for films which are suitable for people of the age 12 and above. 12A rated films are usually given a 12 certificate when released on DVD. An example of a 12 rated film is Mean Girls.

15 standing for films which are only suitable for those aged 15 and over. Films within this category can contain adult themes, hard drugs, and consistent use of foul language. Some scenes can also include strong violence and strong sex references, nudity without graphic detail. Sexual activity may be portrayed
but without any strong detail. Sexual violence may also be shown if discreet and acceptable by context. Some examples are The Devil inside or Insidious.

18 are films which are only suitable for people aged 18 and over. Films within this category do not have limitation on foul language that is used. Hard drugs are generally allowed; explicit sex references along with detailed sexual activity are also allowed. Scenes of strong real sex may be permitted if justified by the context. In addition some scenes in films within this category can also include very strong, gory, and/or sadistic violence. Strong sexual violence is permitted unless it is excessively graphic. Examples of films within category include: Taken, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Spring Breakers.

From my certificate research I believe my films rating is best of rated as a 12 or a 15 it has still been undecided, I am undeceive between the two because by having a 12 rated film I am able to have a wider target audience, including more younger people who have a bigger deposable income, but then I thought about the age teenagers tend to get a job is 16 anyway which is over 15, by allowing me to rate my film as a 15 I’m able to include a range of explicate scenes which fit in with my story line. Similar films to my own are also rated as a 15 such as Hush, so therefore I am looking more towards picking a 15 rating, even though this takes away a small proportion of my audience, it also defines it to a more particular one for myself to work with.

Monday, 10 November 2014

Font Research

Font research

From some research I looked at, many opening font types follow a trend of producing a font that is consistent creating brand loyalty. By having brand loyalty means that the films advertisement team will have the same fonts throughout the whole campaign, for example on the bill boards, on the website and on posters. By doing this it lets the audience to recognise what film it is, even before any footage or sound.

For my films opening titles I began to look at existing horror/ action films to see what types of fonts they used. From what I found the genre of film it is plays a part in how the font looks, for example if it was a ‘chick flick’ the font type would stereo typically be pink with swirls or a girly nature.

So, because of this I had a look at the fonts used in similar films to mine such as Taken or Hush. Hush’s font types are quite basic and clear but are a serif font, like the picture below that I screen shot, it also has a slight un-even lining to it, this is the type of font I want to use for my film, its clear but has a slight off putting about it suggesting something is wrong maybe. Also that font is carried on throughout the other marketing campaigns such as the front cover or posters, again another campaigning technique that I would want to take up.

For my opening titles of my film I looked at some fonts that I would be able to use easily, the main things I looked for when I was picking fonts where that it is serif, and clear enough to read, also I looked for that uneven feel to it that created enigma and mystery, maybe the thought that something bad may happen.

Peer Assessment

Strengths:

Very clear and interesting ways of presentation.
Excellent analysis of planning of your own film, very well thought out.
Good use of variety of IT. (especially the presentation of your screen-grabs)
Excellent analysis of additional films similar to the one you want to make.
Diary posts are very well used and thoughtfully placed throughout your

Targets:

Could maybe add you tube videos

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

My shot list for my film opening.

On a exel spread sheet I made some notes of my shot lists for the opening two minutes of my film. With this I was able to incluse how many different shots I will have, how long they will last, what will breifly happen in them and also what sound would be included. This helped me think about how fast or slow I want to to go and why, for example the shot changes speeded up a lot more when I was trying to build tension for the audience, I also used exel as it is an easy software that I can change anything that I needed to without loosing anything or having to do it all again.

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Research into exsisting blogs:

18/20 Marked blog.
http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html
List of the different activities that this student has done.
During September:
1.      A re- make of Juno was created (opening scene), practise video.
During October:
2.      Screen shots of different shot types during the open credits of a film
3.      Soundtrack analysis of the same film looking at images, music, instruments, dialogue, effect, diegetic/ non diegetic sounds.
4.      Opening scene analysis of a film opening.
5.      A Preliminary task with Youtube video and how to create a film opening with another video.
During November:
1.      Preliminary evaluation
2.      Editing to build tension of a film, includes screen shots
3.      Memento opening credits analysis with screen shots and pictures
4.      Silence of the Lambs opening credits analysis with screen shots
5.      Prop, character and narrative analysis followed by screen shots and photos of film posters
6.      Genre typecasting analysis with film posters
7.      Importance of genre, YouTube clip
8.      Thriller mood board on Picsolve
9.      Conventions of film openings analysis with YouTube clips and screen shots
10.  Thriller conventions analysis followed by a lot of different fonts
11.  Gender representations females analysis with screen shots
12.  Gender representations males analysis with screen shots
13.  Genre and film conventions analysis two films on Scribd
14.  Genre’s purpose and importance using a Scribd mind map
15.  Thriller sub genres analysis with YouTube clips and Scribd
16.  Thriller conventions analysis with a YouTube clip
17.  A Youtube clip of creating a film opening
During December:
1.      Soundtrack analysis with three YouTube clips
2.      Initial ideas with a prezi
3.      Hitman film opening analysis with a YouTube clip
4.      Film pitch presented on prezzi
5.      Credits/ title analysis with screen shots
6.      Production and distribution companies analysis with screen shots/ pictures
7.      BBFC ratings with a picture and screen shots of definitions
8.      Target audience research (Primary research) with a YouTube video, mood board and pictures of bar charts with figures
During January:
1.      Opening sequence- possible credits for his film
2.      Group planning shots list with a picture of how they organised it
3.      Animatic story board with a Prezzi
4.      Group planningand initial ideas of film with a picture
5.      Evaluation of their first shoot
6.      Mise-en-scene analysis with pictures

From looking at this blog it made it clear on some aims and examples to include in my own work. I found that also looking at this blog that I know how much work I should be doing at certain times and also that I want to include my own layout completely to my work.