Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.
Discrimination
Discriminatory language or behaviour is unlikely to be acceptable unless in an educational or historical context.
Drugs
References to illegal drugs or drug misuse must be innocuous or carry a suitable anti-drug message.
Horror
Frightening sequences should not be prolonged or intense. Fantasy settings may be a mitigating factor.
Imitable behaviour
No detail of potentially dangerous behaviour which young children are likely to copy. No glamorisation of realistic or easily accessible weapons.
Language
Mild bad language only.
Nudity
Natural nudity, with no sexual context.
Sex
Sexual activity may be implied, but should be discreet and infrequent. Mild sex references and innuendo only.
Theme
Where more serious issues are featured (for example, domestic violence) nothing in their treatment should condone unacceptable behaviour.
Violence
Moderate violence, without detail, may be allowed, if justified by its context, for example, history, comedy or fantasy.
A ‘U’ film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over. ‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer a reassuring counterbalance to any violence, threat or horror.
Discrimination
No discriminatory language or behaviour.
Drugs
No references to illegal drugs or drug misuse unless they are infrequent and innocuous, or there is a clear educational purpose or anti-drug message suitable for young children.
Horror
Scary sequences should be mild, brief and unlikely to cause undue anxiety to young children.
Imitable behaviour
No potentially dangerous behaviour which young children are likely to copy. No emphasis on realistic or easily accessible weapons.
Language
Infrequent use only of very mild bad language.
Nudity
Occasional natural nudity, with no sexual context.
Sex
Mild sexual behaviour, for example kissing, and references only, for example, to ‘making love’.
Theme
While problematic themes may be present, their treatment must be sensitive and appropriate for young children.
Violence
Mild violence only. Occasional mild threat or menace only.
The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.
The characters include a guy called Tyler and his girlfriend Catherine, the film is set in a small apartment only using three settings, the bedroom, bathroom and balcony. The film starts with them two on a bed with soft sound of romantic guitars playing in the background. Tyler tells her she's the best girlfriend ever and asks if she wants to 'do it'. Catherine replies 'yes i do'. As they go to have sex, she stops him and says' Wait, Tyler, I love you'. The music stops suddenly as tyler asks what she says.
The comedy starts as Tyler begins to panick about what to do. He goes into the bathroom and whipes his face with water. He talsk to himself in the mirror about what to do and how much he wats sex. As the audience wonder about what he is going to do, he then comes out of the bathroom and says her name, there is no answer so he shouts, the next time he stamps his foot and she looks. This gives a comical side to her not being able to hear. He says 'I love Jews' to make her believe he is telling her he loves her. This goes on for a little while until she finally realises what he is saying. She then gets angry and he finally says 'I love you', falls off the balcony and smacks his head.
Although the theme is very simple, it is also funny so you are more likely to remember this. This film also gives the audience the chance to relate to the characters as this happens in everyday relationships. This type of comody is more suitabvle for males who are middle-aged. Overall I thought the film was very well thought out, the combination of love and comedy went very well together and had a surprising ending to it.
This begins with the title ‘LOVEFIELD’; this is presented in white lettering over a long shot view of a corn field, this immediately gives the audience an overview to the films context.
Starting here, and carrying out through the duration of the film, plays a piece of music which continuously changes form a low to high pitch, this may give the audience a range of thoughts varying from good to bad. For a little while, the camera keeps exploring the field to keep the audience thinking about what could be happening.
Shortly after, the camera is zoomed into a jet black crow. A crow in films genuinely symbols a foreshadow to death. As the camera gets lost between the field, you begin to hear a constant ‘tooting’ sound which you believe is a cut off phone line, this begins to get louder.
As soon as you see the phone, you then believe there is definitely someone in this field. This leaves the audience in great confusion and suspense.
Suddenly you begin to hear yells and shrieks from a young women that is in pain and tissues of red blood are presented to emphasize on the danger and seriousness of the situation.
The music rapidly becomes louder and the woman’s yells and all of a sudden, movements stop unexpectedly, when a man abruptly stabs a knife covered in blood into the ground, leaving the audience assume she is dead.
Immediately, we focus on 'the Killer' from a side view showing his tattoos. He has a tattoo of a skull on his right arm, the skull is another symbol that has been associated to death in this short film.
The camera work that is next used, assists the audience to assume that he is the killer as we watch the camera follow the man running back to his car in haste. At this point, the audience presume that he’s running away.
However, we get a close up of the man hastily trying to open the boot of the car, as all this is happening the crows cawing in the background becomes louder and more regular, reinforcing the representation of something bad occurring but also keeping the audience at unease.
The man carries a piece of cloth out of the boot and walks back to the lady who the audience believe is now dead. Meanwhile there are constant cuts between the crow and the man, in which at one point they match eye contact; this use of transition may be used to show that although the field is isolated there is still something out their watching him. The man returns to the woman and at this point the camera is now positioned at a low angle and the music becomes harsher with more piercing and violent strings, this may be used to reflect back to the brutal situation that the character now finds himself in. However, seconds later the audience is presented with the sound of a new born baby cry, and the audience may now be alarmed by the huge smile of the 'the Killers’ face as he carries the baby and cries out ‘it’s a boy’, the mother is then introduced in a extreme close-up emphasizing on her smile and happiness of the new born baby.
I loved the twist in this film, i thought it was well planned and the camera work and music worked well together to create the tension. Making the audience visually believe that something was going to happen when in fact the complete opposite occurred.
I believe this video is very conventional and follows many of the conventions used in short films. for example, in this film there is a very minimal use of dialogue. By using little dialogue it is meant that the music has to create the mood of the film. Another convention used in this short film is the use of minimal characters. This means that within the duration of the film the characters have to become well known to the audience and as a result short films cant use many characters or the story will just be all over the place and feel incomplete.
In the early days of cinema all films were short films. After over one hundred years of technical and aesthetic advances, some of the characteristics and criteria that identified short film back then are still valid today.
Short films are defined by its length. Short Films can range from five to forty minutes long.
Years ago, this was the only way to see movement on a screen. There was no sound or no colour. This was an exciting time for people back in those days.
Shorts Film nowadays tend to have a twist to them. This is because you need to make these five minutes exciting for the audience.
During the making of our short film we came across things that would limit the amount of creativity we put into our product.
First of all, our group was a problem, we all had different ideas and we could not put all of them into our film. As there was three of us, we all took the time to listen to each others ideas as well as our own to have a joint decision on the product. When it came to the decision making, sometimes it came down to a vote or just a simple agreement on the chosen idea. This way is a lot easier but it does limit your own creativity as the other members in our group may not agree with your ideas.
Money was also a problem; this film is clearly funded by the people in our group which means we had limited things we could do. One example was when we went to Felixstowe, we had to pay Jazelle as she was driving us there and she was low on fuel, if we had more money we could of drove to somewhere a bit further away to make the scene seem more interesting.
Time was a key as we only had 6 weeks, if we had more time we could have produced more creative ideas and took more time in filming the scenes.
The Genre is important, as we chose a thriller we had to stick to the certain codes and conventions of our chosen genre, this limited our creativity straight away.
The casting limited our creativity as because this is an A Level project, we only had access to close family members and other students in the sixth form. When finding the cast, we also had to see whether they would actually film for us.
The cameras given to us were very small compact flip cameras; this limited our digital technology creativity as due to the size, we could not see the shots very clear when viewing them back on the screen. If we had a bigger camera, the quality of filming would be better and also the sound.
My name is Jessica Whight and I am currently studying A Level Media Studies. For our AS Project we had to create a two minute opening to a film. My group last year consisted of me, Harry, Jazelle and Sophie. As a group we decided to go with a 'High School Musical' theme, this was a good idea as no one else came up with this genre. As individuals in our group, we each had separate roles. Jazelle was the Editor, I was the Director, Harry was the Script Writer and Sophie was the Story Boarder. Although we all had our own individual jobs, we took the tie to help out each other to complete the work set to a high standard. From completing this project, we have all learnt new skills and techniques to carry forward into our A2 Project. This I feel will help our film become more technical and over all a lot better.
Our new project for A2 is to produce a short film; this short film can last no longer than five minutes long. In my group there is three of us; Me, Jazelle and Sophie. Our film needs to also address an issue that has an underlying message. This theme is something totally different to what we had last year and I feel our group will come up with some amazing ideas. This will also be a great opportunity to show our skills top our classmates, teacher and the examiner.
Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.
The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984. 
In the early days of cinema all films were short films. After over one hundred years of technical and aesthetic advances, some of the characteristics and criteria that identified short film back then are still valid today.
Our new project for A2 is to produce a short film; this short film can last no longer than five minutes long. In my group there is three of us; Me, Jazelle and Sophie. Our film needs to also address an issue that has an underlying message. This theme is something totally different to what we had last year and I feel our group will come up with some amazing ideas. This will also be a great opportunity to show our skills top our classmates, teacher and the examiner.