Film Regulation and The BBFC: 1) Publishes short but detailed information about the content of every film. It is aimed particularly at parents and offers as summery as to why a film was rated at any given category. In 1884 Parliament passed the videos recording act - subject to certain exemptions offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the sectary of the state. It was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent body. Statutory powers remain with local councils which ave the ability to overrule any of the BBFC's decisions. President and Vice President of the BBFC were so designated and charged with applying the new teat of 'suitability of viewing at home'. After this the broads title was changed to the British Board of Film Classification to show how classification plays a bigger part than censorship. 2)When each film is submitted, each work is checked by compliance officers who log details of what t...
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A field in England T his article explores how difficult it can be for low budget films as most blockbuster films spend millions.It talks about how .It also explores the distribution of films and how there are different ways a film can be distributed,depending on what will have the most effective outcome. The distributor has to take many factors into account, for instance finance and the target audience. It touches on the fact distribution costs are dominated by Hollywood. Furthermore it states the the film was hard to film as it was shot in one external location. Industrial evolution:Andy Strak influences A field in England's release strategy and how it shows the evolution and democratisation of film distribution. It talks about how it was released on TV, cinema VHS and DVD simultaneously. Screening/radical release The commissioning executive Anna Higgs on screening an early cut of the film for the first time to her fellow executives at Film 4 and the grou...
Film Industry: British film industry factsheets Factsheet #132: British Film Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) to find Media Factsheet #132 on British Film . Save it to USB or email it to yourself so you have access to the reading for homework. Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. A film is considered to be British if it includes a British cast, if the subject matter is about British culture, whether the producers are British, if it is funded from within Britain and many other criteria's. 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? There are numerous differences between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film. For example, a Hollywood production context means th...
Cinematography video feedback and learner response: Feedback from teacher: WWW: The camerawork is very good: steady, well-shot and almost always crisply in focus. This is so important for professional-level work. Audio works appropriately for the type of video and you've covered the different shot types and camera movements comprehensively EBI: Revise tracking shots: by definition a tracking shot can't be going down stairs! That would be handheld. I don't like the transitions. You generally won't see that type of transition in professional work so something to consider in terms of editing in future. Reflection of my work: WWW: Various shots , angles and camera movements applied , action shot edited well. Ensured camera was in focus and steady by using the tripod EBI: Altering the transitions made the video look unprofessional Ensure the shots are correct Learner response: think about what you learned making the vid...
Mise-en-scene blog task: In this particular scene,the costume on both characters portrays their status and class, this is seen where the female character on the left which is Lauren (Taraji Henson) is portrayed to be wearing smart wear as she is wearing a black shirt paired with a tight black pencil skirt showing that she is a more sophisticated character and is part of the middle class. However, the male character opposite known as Dominic (Michael Ealy) is portrayed to be a working class character which is conveyed through his costume as he is wearing a typical leather jacket paired with blue jeans. The fact that they are only having a conversation and Lauren is seen to be wearing business wear indicates that she has a very high status and reputation and is seen to be more classy as her legs are crossed. On the other hand Dominic is more tranquil and looks more welcoming. High key lighting is applied in this scene to create a more natural setting and a sense of realism...
Index: 1) Film poster analysis 2) Mise-en-scene blog tasks 3) Star persona: video feedback and learner response 4) Lighting blog tasks 5) Sound blog tasks 7) Cinematography blog tasks 8) Cinematography video task and learner response 9) Moonlight - trip homework 10) Blade Runner 2049 - trip homework 11) Editing blog task - 750 word analysis 12) Editing video task and learner response 13)British Film Industry factsheets #132 & #100 14) Chicken case study research 15) Regulation - BBFC research and tasks 16) A Field In England - initial research and tasks 17) A Field In England & Arthouse cinema - concluded
Sound Analysis: 1) Choose a 60 second piece of music - ideally from YouTube and not something that is likely to be blocked on copyright grounds. 2) Using editing software (Windows Moviemaker is fine but Adobe Premiere is available on Media PCs) produce a one-minute montage of images and video. Half the images need to be parallel to the music and half need to be contrapuntal . Think carefully about how you can best select images and video to have a significant impact on the audience. 3) Upload the finished video to YouTube and embed it in your own blog with a brief description of what you've created. Note: due to videos being blocked on copyright grounds, please also save the exported video file (e.g. MP4) into your student folder on the M: Media Shared drive. In this video i conveyed the difference between parallel ad contrapuntal sound by applying a happy themed soundtrack throughout the video. I then added happy a...