Regulation Research

We have decided that our film is going to be a 15 certificate, this is because of the content that it includes and the amount of the content used in the whole idea of our film not just the first 2 minutes


I have got the next 9 paragraphs from the BBFC website for the age 15 rating guidelines because i wanted to get all the facts for my certificate right

The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory

language or behaviour.

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not

promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily

accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example,

aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic

or sexualised.

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and

self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be

copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

There may be frequent use of strong language (for example,

‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be

acceptable if justified by the context.Aggressive or repeated

use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without

strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a

non-sexual or educational context.

Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.

There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour,

but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable

unless justified by context.


Works whose primary purpose is

sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is

appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence

Discrimination

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction

of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to

be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also

unlikely to be acceptable.

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence

but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and

have a strong contextual justification.


There are some things which have to be cut from every movie that the BBFC gets submitted, they will have to either reshoot this part of the film or the whole film.

• material which may promote

illegal activity

• material which is obscene or

otherwise illegal

• material created by means of the

commission of a criminal offence

• portrayals of children in a

sexualised or abusive context

• sexual violence or sexualised

violence which endorses or

eroticises the behaviour

• sadistic violence or torture which

invites the viewer to identify with

the perpetrator in a way which

raises a risk of harm

• graphic images of real injury,

violence or death presented in a

salacious or sensationalist manner

which risks harm by encouraging

callous or sadistic attitudes


From this research that i have done on regulations in film i have realised what i should do to keep our film in the right age certification, most films that are 15's contain violence and swearing, with sex and nudity. Our film will be based around violence robbery and crime.

Our film will be in the age 15 catagory because it has many of the features that 15 certificate films have such as:

• Swearing strong words such as fuck may be used frequently on occassion.
• Minor sex scenes will be included in the film.
• Violence will be included, with close ups of someone that has been shot. 

These are our initial ideas which our group thought of when we first started planning our film,

Very basic  ideas which may be put into the film.

We definitely planning on using the ideas about the different men (A B C D)

Many of the ideas in this picture we will use

Were not planning on using some of our ideas, such as balaclavas and the actual running into the bank with guns and doing the heist.

Having this discussion with our group has made it easier to pin point what we want to do and how to do it, when we make our film we will reefer back to this sheet to make sure we have the basic ideas of what we wanted to do.

Preliminary Film Task


FILM TEST 01 from Tim Langton on Vimeo.

This task was to test out different filming techniques which will be used in our actual film, the techniques include: Match on actions, Jump cuts, Shot reverse shots and not breaking the 180 degree rule.
I will use what I've learnt doing this task and apply it too the film that is going to be created by our group learnt the importance how long it takes to make a good film.

Reservoir Dogs Textual Analysis

This film starts with showing a black screen with gold writing showing the production company and the producer, the dialogue comes in with one of the characters talking about one of Madonna’s song like a virgin. The shot cuts to a pan around the table of all the main characters discussing this song, using the darkness of the back of their suits to mask the cuts in the shots. They are all sat in an all American diner with all the characters eating and drinking coffee and many of them smoking. All of them are engaged in the conversation apart from one who is reading an address book out loud to himself.

All of the characters are wearing suits apart from 2 who are wearing normal clothes, we instantly know who the characters to focus on are, they look professional and we know that they part of a group or gang who are planning on doing something together, so far we don’t know what that is, it could be anything. From the characters involved in the conversation we can guess that it is not on the up and up.

The scene that they are in is a diner which all the characters that are shown, it is a small place there are only a few other characters there who are ignored and not mentioned or shown much, these people are sitting by the back door of this diner in a corner so they would not be disturbed or over heard if they did talk about some sort of job they might talk about.

The start of this film is not like a classic heist film because they have not even mentioned the job or what is going on, for the first 2 minutes of the film. Someone who is watching this without knowing what it’s about would not know what these people are doing or why their doing it.


The sound effects in this scene are very overemphasized such as the sound of the coffee being poured, clinking of the mugs and knives on plates. These sounds may be heightened because Tarantino wanted to make it sure that it was clear the characters were in a quiet place where it would be easy to hear these sorts of sounds so it is believable to the viewer.


There is no music in this particular scene, this again may be to highlight that it is a quiet place and the conversation they are having could be heard throughout the coffee bar. In the whole scene it is all digetic sound and no non digetic. 

The mood of this scene suggests that they are getting brekfast before this group of men get ready to do something but we dont know what is could be. Suggested by the type of  people the characters seem to be it is probably something that isnt socially acceptable, the director wants us to read these people like a book and judge them accordingly.

Target audience

This poster is showing what audiences are attracted to Heist films and what brings them too watch these films, the sort of people that generally watch a heist film are guys who are in their 20s, also older people may be interested in these movies because of the complex story twists and story lines. The Socio-economic classification we have targeted in this film is a very broad spectrum, B C1 C2 D E, we chose this many because most people like heist films because of certain things about them.

The style of this film will attract the audience were looking for because of the certain characteristics such as  of a Heist film which define it and make it unique.