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The British board film classifacation,

U- Universal, this means that it is sutiable for children aged four and over.‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.

PG- Parental Guidance, General viewing. 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.

12- 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.

12A- The ‘12A’ category exists only for cinema films. No one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult, and films classified ‘12A’ are not recommended for a child below 12. An adult may take a younger child if, in their judgement, the film is suitable for that particular child. In such circumstances, responsibility for allowing a child under 12 to view lies with the accompanying adult.

15- Suitable only for 15 years
and over. No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

18- Suitable only for adults. No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video.

R18 - To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas, or supplied only in licensed sex shops, and to adults of not less than 18 years

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is an independent, non-governmental body funded through the fees it charges to those who submit films and video works for classification.
All the information has come from the bbfc website. http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Some camera angles.

Media: Camera Angles from James Wigger on Vimeo.

ACORN System

This system is used to portray the public in a system that can define classes. More information at http://www.caci.co.uk/acorn/acornmap.asp

A band are the upper middle class they usally take on jobs like higher managerial, administrative or professional.

B band would be middle class and have jobs like intermediate managerial, administrative or professional

C1 bandare the lower middle class they are normally supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional

C2 band is skilled working class usally skilled manual workers

D band are working class they work as semi and unskilled manual workers

E bandthese are those at lowest level of subsistence they are state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers.

Sound bites

Sound bites are a short peace of text with hyperlinks and embetted videos that is a sumary of an essay or along section of text, which you ca use without putting in the whole writen peace. Sound bites can include trailers, podcats and headlines. You would discribe them to be a summery or an synopsis. e.g. on the back of a book or a film review. They will be used to demestrate knowleadge and understanding.

Leave Me (3 minute contest winning version) from Daros Films on Vimeo.

Lesson 6-10-09

Today we learnt about, Target audience, distribution and exchange and marketing processes. marketing processes include print advertising, televisional advertising film, bilboards and word of mouth. Distribution and exchange includ, shops, video rental stores, the internet and borrowing such as going round to a friends or borrowing for a day or two to watch.

Target audience is a big section in media as it determins if you are successfull or not in your production. It includes age, sex, interests, The social economic band which is based on the wealth of the audience. This is put into groups of A B C1 C2 D E, A being the highest and E being non aplicable. The quantitive measurement is deviding the audience into sections of interest and how they respond to films.

Post-modernist is someone that likes to break conventions, like Quentin tarentino films. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/

A traditinalist is someone that wont take risks, they know what they like and they will only watch that, they tend to be dads watching action films, like James Bond. Another film could be Fantastic Mr Fox, as it is a book enterpridated into a film. http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2620588569    

Active and passive are terms given to how you watch it, if you have been asked to see a film then it will be passive but if you made the desision to see a film then it is active.

Hedonist's take riskes they will see a film how ever gorry or bad it is like "saw". They will go to see a film just for their pleasure. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387564/

Perferred

CGI-brows

This is the winner of the virgin media shorts film competition for this year in the people choice section. I found this film to be quite funny but very clever in the sence of how they have used the tecnology.

First task

We were given the inro of James bond's Casino Royale. Which is represented in the style of Film Noir. We were told to Write a small essay on how it Fits in the the style of Film noir.



"The beginning opens to a slightly wobbling camera of a tall building, still in black and white and at night. A car rolls up outside the building and text comes up to the left hand side of the scene with the detail of the place and it whereabouts. This scene is very much like what you would find in a film noir as it has minimum lighting and smoke/steam rising from the ground. You are kept with this scene until the camera quickly changes to a low-angle shot of the man getting out of the car showing his importance, this is poorly lit. The camera then moves to a shot of below the lift and shows it moving up the side of the building. Next the camera then switches to a shot in the lift that is looking down at the man then when the man looks slightly to the left of the camera it changes to the perspective of the man which shows the floor numbers. I found this scene really works well and is one I would like to use. Next is a tracking shot of the man walking down a glass corridor that then switches to inside a room with the door opening on it. This room is poorly lit and shows only outside light with this you can only see part of the man as he moves through the room. It then shows a close up of the man then moves to the left as he turns round to show James bond in the background."

"The camera then switches between shots of both men and ones which show objects in the foreground and them in the background. This is a very good representation of confrontation between to two men.
In-between this you switch with a scene where bond is killing one of his men in a bathroom. This is very different from the confronted scene of the two men as this is very bright and shows a different side of bond which you have never seen before as he has always been with his gadgets but now he is very hands on with the killing and shows him getting hurt. This also links with the scene in the office because it shows just how dark James bond is."

First Post

This first post will be Be a small insight to what will be included in this AS media course. This course includes studying television dramas, such as soaps and crime. I will also be studying the genre or Film Noir and how it affects the mood of the viewer.
My name is Daniel and I will be updating this page regually and full with information from the course and what I have done in media terms prior to this.