Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Risk Assessment Form
Our group had to complete a risk assessment form in order to identify hazards that could occur when shooting our film. It is extremely beneficial to us to know what potential risks there could be, so that we can try to prevent them and keep ourselves and our actors safe.
Filming Schedule
This is our groups schedule for planning out filming hours in January 2015. The day's highlighted in yellow are the days we have booked out the equipment (mentioned in my previous post) to film our thriller opening.
Monday, 12 January 2015
Completed Storyboard For Thriller
This is our storyboard for our thriller "The Black Widow". We will use our storyboard to plan our camera shots, mise en scene etc. We don't have to stick to our storyboard but we can use it as a helpful guide.
Sunday, 4 January 2015
Our One Page Pitch Q&A
Me, Georgina, Brandon and Amber were asked questions on our one page pitch which we explained in detail to our Media teacher, Mr Welch.
Friday, 12 December 2014
Regulation: BBFC
Who they are:
The British Board of Film Classification. "The BBFC is a trusted guide to media content. Working as an independent, self-financing and not-for-profit media content regulator, the BBFC operates transparent, consistent and trusted co-regulatory and self-regulatory classification and labelling systems in the UK." They watch films and videos all the way through and award an age rating and insight to each one. They reach an age rating by applying the standards and criteria contained in their Classification Guidelines.
What they aim to do:
The BBFC aims to protect the public, especially children, from content which might raise risks such as graphic violence. They also try to empower the public, especially parents, to make informed viewing choices and recognise and respect adult freedom of choice within the law. They try to respond to and reflect changing social attitudes towards media content through proactive public consultation and research. The BBFC also provides a cost-effective, efficient classification service within our statutory remit. They aim to work in partnership with the industry to develop innovative service models to provide content advice which support emerging media delivery systems as well as providing an effective service to enforcement agencies.
Age Ratings:
Suitable for all
Parental guidance
Cinema release suitable for 12 years and over
Video release suitable for 12 years and over
Suitable only for 15 years and over
Suitable only for adults
Adult works for licensed premises only
The British Board of Film Classification. "The BBFC is a trusted guide to media content. Working as an independent, self-financing and not-for-profit media content regulator, the BBFC operates transparent, consistent and trusted co-regulatory and self-regulatory classification and labelling systems in the UK." They watch films and videos all the way through and award an age rating and insight to each one. They reach an age rating by applying the standards and criteria contained in their Classification Guidelines.
What they aim to do:
The BBFC aims to protect the public, especially children, from content which might raise risks such as graphic violence. They also try to empower the public, especially parents, to make informed viewing choices and recognise and respect adult freedom of choice within the law. They try to respond to and reflect changing social attitudes towards media content through proactive public consultation and research. The BBFC also provides a cost-effective, efficient classification service within our statutory remit. They aim to work in partnership with the industry to develop innovative service models to provide content advice which support emerging media delivery systems as well as providing an effective service to enforcement agencies.
Age Ratings:
Suitable for all Parental guidance Cinema release suitable for 12 years and over Video release suitable for 12 years and over Suitable only for 15 years and over Suitable only for adults Adult works for licensed premises onlyOur One Page Pitch
Film title: The Black Widow
Tag-Line: The female of the species is much deadlier than the male
The what if premise: What if the love of your life, the one you held closest to your heart, the one who you would do anything for, cross mountains and oceans for, betrayed you? What if the man, who promised to love you and to cherish you, no matter what, lied to you? What if because of his poisonous and vile lies, everything you worked for and everything you’d treasured had come crumbling down? What would you do? Could you forgive him? Or would you take your revenge?
Age rating: Our age rating is a 12. I looked at the BBFC regulations and have selected an age rating that I think will be appropriate to audiences. A rating of 12 seems suitable as our thriller will glaze over the murder scene so there will not be any graphic violence displayed. There will not be any scenes involving drugs or sex. However the theme will be mature and suitable for ages 12 and over.
Target audience: Our target audience will be between ages 12-25. We are targeting our film at young adults as we think that is a good age to target our thoughts about the issues raised in the media text. Our media text will be used as a form of escapism. It will be used for people to escape from reality and everyday life. The media text is used to provoke an emotion from the audience or can be used as a way of expressing ideas about the topic of the film with friends, family or acquaintances. We do not want audiences to be passive when watching our thriller; we want people to question our ideas and what happens in the film, as it will raise issues regarding gender empowerment and sexism.
Statement of intent: For our story, our theme is envy and jealousy, and how it can drive people mad. We have chosen to tell the story that we have to portray how delusional love can make people, and the drastic ending that one woman had to take when her love for a man was disrupted. For us as a group, we feel passionately about this subject, as although we haven’t personally experienced it, we know how being unfaithful can shatter someone’s heart. The feeling is unimaginable to comprehend, as the love of our main characters life betrayed her trust, as well as using the other woman. The audience, we feel, will care about this subject, as it is very commonly portrayed in the media and women’s feelings and thoughts are never shown. In the modern day, we feel like the story of a man having an affair leaving a woman heartbroken and deluded, is appropriate to tell. Our aim is to make men think about their actions, as not many women will just forgive and forget. Our main woman character is strong, and although a murderer, her motive was that she either ended his life or hers, because she couldn’t take the news of his affair. We hope that the audience will feel the need for the story to be told, as it is an important aspect in relationships – and the gluttony of men or woman thinking they can have two loves, is sadly mistaken. We have chosen to make our thriller a film opening, as opposed to a TV drama, as with TV drama characters can develop over time, whereas our characters we want their personalities to be clear throughout.
Plot: For our plot we have chosen to have many characters stood around a coffin, either viewing it in the morgue or crying, or around a grave. We want the characters to show emotion, to know that the loss has made a massive impact, and 2 women we want to stand out immediately, perhaps by cutaways from one to the other. But one noticeably crying, the other one noticeably looking angry ( the girlfriend and the one he is later revealed to have had an affair with ). For the second scene we want a clear flashback, where the main character BOB and his girlfriend MARY are shown in a montage of clips doing things together such as going on dates – the story of how they fell in love. After this we want a clear shot of suspicions, with MARY lurking around where BOB is, later to be looking out of a window and seeing BOB with the girl he’s having an affair with ( JESSICA ). After BOB returns from his affair that night, we see MARY look smiley and happy, however we (THE AUDIENCE) see she has a knife behind her back. We have shown to include the audience in dramatic irony, that she wants to kill him, as then they can infer for themselves what will happen, without actually being shown it.
Tag-Line: The female of the species is much deadlier than the male
The what if premise: What if the love of your life, the one you held closest to your heart, the one who you would do anything for, cross mountains and oceans for, betrayed you? What if the man, who promised to love you and to cherish you, no matter what, lied to you? What if because of his poisonous and vile lies, everything you worked for and everything you’d treasured had come crumbling down? What would you do? Could you forgive him? Or would you take your revenge?
Age rating: Our age rating is a 12. I looked at the BBFC regulations and have selected an age rating that I think will be appropriate to audiences. A rating of 12 seems suitable as our thriller will glaze over the murder scene so there will not be any graphic violence displayed. There will not be any scenes involving drugs or sex. However the theme will be mature and suitable for ages 12 and over.
Target audience: Our target audience will be between ages 12-25. We are targeting our film at young adults as we think that is a good age to target our thoughts about the issues raised in the media text. Our media text will be used as a form of escapism. It will be used for people to escape from reality and everyday life. The media text is used to provoke an emotion from the audience or can be used as a way of expressing ideas about the topic of the film with friends, family or acquaintances. We do not want audiences to be passive when watching our thriller; we want people to question our ideas and what happens in the film, as it will raise issues regarding gender empowerment and sexism.
Statement of intent: For our story, our theme is envy and jealousy, and how it can drive people mad. We have chosen to tell the story that we have to portray how delusional love can make people, and the drastic ending that one woman had to take when her love for a man was disrupted. For us as a group, we feel passionately about this subject, as although we haven’t personally experienced it, we know how being unfaithful can shatter someone’s heart. The feeling is unimaginable to comprehend, as the love of our main characters life betrayed her trust, as well as using the other woman. The audience, we feel, will care about this subject, as it is very commonly portrayed in the media and women’s feelings and thoughts are never shown. In the modern day, we feel like the story of a man having an affair leaving a woman heartbroken and deluded, is appropriate to tell. Our aim is to make men think about their actions, as not many women will just forgive and forget. Our main woman character is strong, and although a murderer, her motive was that she either ended his life or hers, because she couldn’t take the news of his affair. We hope that the audience will feel the need for the story to be told, as it is an important aspect in relationships – and the gluttony of men or woman thinking they can have two loves, is sadly mistaken. We have chosen to make our thriller a film opening, as opposed to a TV drama, as with TV drama characters can develop over time, whereas our characters we want their personalities to be clear throughout.
Plot: For our plot we have chosen to have many characters stood around a coffin, either viewing it in the morgue or crying, or around a grave. We want the characters to show emotion, to know that the loss has made a massive impact, and 2 women we want to stand out immediately, perhaps by cutaways from one to the other. But one noticeably crying, the other one noticeably looking angry ( the girlfriend and the one he is later revealed to have had an affair with ). For the second scene we want a clear flashback, where the main character BOB and his girlfriend MARY are shown in a montage of clips doing things together such as going on dates – the story of how they fell in love. After this we want a clear shot of suspicions, with MARY lurking around where BOB is, later to be looking out of a window and seeing BOB with the girl he’s having an affair with ( JESSICA ). After BOB returns from his affair that night, we see MARY look smiley and happy, however we (THE AUDIENCE) see she has a knife behind her back. We have shown to include the audience in dramatic irony, that she wants to kill him, as then they can infer for themselves what will happen, without actually being shown it.
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