Research- Age Certificates- Miss Begum

What is the role of the BBFC and why are they important to the film industry?

The BBFC is the shorten version of  British Board of Film Classification, they are  highly expert and experiences regulator in films. They provide protection for the viewers, especially children and they protect them from disturbing images which might raise their risks. They also provide information for parents alerting them on the harms of the movie, so that they make right choices on viewing the films.

They also play the part as they judge films and decided whether the films are suitable to be released in the cinemas or not. they also give the films the perfect ratings such as U,PG,15,12,12A,18, they report scenes that are inappropriate to the audience and get the producers to cut those scenes or just banned the films completely.





what are the different age certificates?

    15


 PG

 U


   18


 12A


 12



Spiderman was originally rated a PG but then Parents started complaining that the film was too violent for their kids as spiderman had a very controversial narrative. due to this the BBFC then decided to change the rating from PG to 12A, which meant that those under 12 could only watch it if they where with an adult.


what age certificates to thrillers seem to get and why?


The age certificates that thrillers tend to get are 15 and above because they usually contain disturbing scenes, violence, sexual acts that people under 15 will not be able to digest or watch. But even though the rating is 15 what is shown is still limited compare to what would we shown if the movie was an 18 plus, 15 would contain a bit of inappropriate language,  not much sexual content, and  not much shown on the abuse of drugs. Even for those 18 and over there is still limited content shown, due to the capability of what a human could tolerate.


What Age Certificate would you give your thriller?
For my thriller I would give it a 15


Conclusion
The research that is shown above has helped me, understand more about Age certificates and how they work. in my own thriller I would need to consider what I would put in it and if it would be appropriate for my 15 plus viewers.




 
 
 
 

Reaserh- Narative Themes- Miss Begum

What are themes? why are they important to identify for the audience?

 Themes are the topics within a film, that create meaning and understanding In a movie For example love and obsession are two themes, it helps the audience to understand the description and understand what the movie is about.

 

How are themes dependant on genres and why?

 

Themes are important and depends on other genres because it allows the viewers to see what is the main theme within the film. This allows the viewers to feel the emotions related to that film and feel sympathy towards what the character is going through. This also helps the viewer relate and understand the character. without themes there would be confusion and lack of understanding on the the events happening.

 

Common themes in Thrillers

 

• Death

 

• Obsession

 

 

• Revenge

 

• Love

 

 

 

• Religion

 

 

 

 

These are all examples of common themes in thrillers

 

 

All themes have a positive impact on the audience as it allows the audience to understand the thriller more.

 

 

Conclusions

In my thriller I will use the theme of pain and hurt because I believe its what would go with my subgenre which would be psychological thriller

 

 

 

 

 

Research- Narrative Theory- Miss Begum

what is a narrative and why is important?

A narrative is a storyline that is used and followed throughout a film. A narrative is everything that happens in the films it is there to create more meaning towards the audience, a narrative should be easy to follow by the audience and shouldn't be confusing unless its deliberate.

Creating meaning in text

1. The connotation and denotation help create meaning it allows the audience to give true meaning of a scene, object or emotion towards the viewers.
2. Genre  shows how conventional it is and what makes it conventional genre-wise.
3. The structure would allows the audience to understand the whole film from the start, middle and end without getting confused in the middle.
4. The characters allow to give the audience meaning of the narrative and have more understanding.

who was Propp?

 

Propp is a theorist that came up with an idea of creating a film with a narrative that was determined by the characters he believe that folk tales were about the same basic struggles therefore had the same characters.

 

Propp characters:

•  The hero
•  The villain
•  The donor
• The dispatcher
• The false hero
• The helper
•  The princess
• Her father (the king)

 

Who is Todorov?

 

 Todorov is another theorist that came up with an idea of creating a film with a narrative that have a clear structure of a start, middle and end which he named equilibrium ( how the characters are stable at the beginning) , disequilibrium ( something bad happens then a change happens which needs to be cured)  and new equilibrium. ( the change gets solved and the narrative is closed)

 

 

 

 

  Who is Aristotle?

 

Aristotle is another theorist that like Tovodo came up with the idea that a narrative should have the beginning, middle and ending, he also believed that all the events should somehow relate to eachother. He also believed that it was important to get emotion from the audience.

 

 Who was Barthes?

Barthes is also a  theorist that came up with an idea of narrative that can be explained by using these 5 things ...

1. Action - understanding and resolution.

2. Enigma - it presents a problem or dilemma to the audience that needs to be solved

3. Symbolic - connotation

4. Semic - denotation

5. cultural understanding - events that happen that people recognise as being part of a culture

 

 

I believe that Thrillers tend to take Torovs theory because it has a clear equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium. This is Important because it helps the audience to understand clearly what is going on and follow the narrative without getting confused

 

 

Conclusion

 

All the research above has helped me understand clearly about Narratives and the Theorists view on what a narrative should look like. In my film I will use the narrative of Todorov as its clear and will keep my viewers engaged with the film.

 

Reaserch- Mise En Scene;setting and iconograhy- Miss Begum

what are setting and iconography and why is it an important convention? How can it help with an audience understanding?

Setting- Setting would be the place or type of surroundings where the film would take place. setting is an important convention because it creates a lot of different connotations, meaning feelings and denotations based on the setting, such as the location and how it looks. For example If a movie was to be set in an abandoned house, this would make the audience understand the kind of genre it is and make the audience have different connotations  just by looking at the surroundings. This would help the audience to in a way be prepared for what would happen next and have different ideas and thoughts roaming through their mind, even though the denotation of it is just an abandoned house.

Iconography- Iconography is known as the object or prop used in the scene, it causes meaning to the scene. iconography is an important convention to thriller because it assists into creating different connotations and denotations in Thrillers.Iconography is the objects that cause significant to the scene. an example would be if the protagonist was holding a gun this would make the audience understand the intentions and actions of the protagonist, and the connotations would be murder. Due to this iconography the audience would be expecting something bad to happen in the future whilst  that specific iconography is in the scene, such as the murder of someone etc. this would help to create tension towards the audience as they will be expecting to see something  bad to happen even though the denotation of it is just a gun.

Settings- what are the typical thriller settings and why?

The typical thriller settings would be...

• An old abandoned house- The connotations coming from the viewers would be haunted, isolated, spirits and ghosts, due to the connotations that would come from the audience it would help create fear towards the audience and keep them alert and also make them feel uncomfortable. this will also cause the audience to have bad ideas about the future of that film like something would happen. but when looking at it from the denotation  point of view it would just be an old abandoned house.
• An isolated  Forest, the connotations from the audience of this location would be scary, mysterious, dangerous. This would helps to make the audience to make different ideas on their mind and think of all the bad things that could possibly happen in this place such as murder, rape, kidnapping. this would create a frightening response from the audience. but denotations wise it would only be an isolated forest .

Setting and sub-genres
Setting would also be picked due on the sub-genre of the film so that it would make sense to the film

action thriller
In action thrillers the settings would be suburban areas, roads, banks, underground etc....

       

Crime Thrillers
would be set I suburban areas, city, banks, hospitals, run down areas etc...

sci-fi thrillers
spaceships, forests, hospitals, laboratories, etc...

                 

psychological thrillers
someone's house, hospital,alleyways etc...

             

 
Analyse a scene

The scene that I am going to analyse would be the fighting scene between batman and bane on what seems like their first encounter on The dark knight rises, In this scene we can see that it is being set in what looks like an underground area, making the viewer feel aware of all the dangers that could happen underground such as murder, the setting already would create an alert response from the audience the connotations from the audience would be murder, kidnapping etc. The iconography that is mostly being shown is the gun that the guards are holding which would bring tension from the audience automatically making them think that something bad is going to happen such as someone getting shot, but as we know the denotation is just the gun.

Conclusion
 - All the information and research above has helped me to develop an understanding of how setting and iconography could creates different connotations and denotations towards the audience. The type of setting I'm planning to use are street, houses, and if im able alleyways. the type of iconography that I want to use would be blood and some kind of weapons.