12 rated films.

The same criteria and rules are applied to the 12 A and 12 rated films. These films are judged upon their materials included, to see if they are suitable or not, these films are generally for children 12 years and over. Children under the age of 12 may find these materials disturbing and their parents may not approve, therefore it is classified as a 12 certificate.

The 12A certificate only exists for films at the cinema. Children below the age of 12 are not allowed to go watch a 12A film unless they are accompanied by an adult. It is the adult’s choice whether they think the film is suitable for that particular child and it is their responsibility.

The 12 category only exists in video works. No one below the age of 12 is not permitted to buy or rent a 12 rated video.

Discrimination:

Discriminatory language or behaviour has to be given support to go ahead with by the work. Aggressive and violent language or behaviour would not be approved of, unless clearly condemned.

Drugs:

Any misuse of drug in not acceptable and should not be shown clearly or given any instructional advice or description.

Horror:

Reasonable physical and psychological threat is permitted, however disturbing sequences are not allowed.

Imitable behaviour:

Dangerous, harmful behaviour is not allowed to be shown in detail, as it could be easily copied and cause harm. Also accessible weapons should not be shown in clear detail.

Language:

Moderate language is allowed, however there should not be a lot of frequent use of words like “fuck”.

Nudity:

Nudity is allowed to be shown in a 12/12A rated film, however in a sexual content it must be shown briefly and quickly.

Sex:

Any sexual activity taking place in the sequence must be very brief. Any sort of sexual actions which are not suitable for children of 12 age of under is not allowed to be shown. Frequent crude references are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme:

Some mature themes are acceptable but it must be suitable to show to young children.

Violence:

Moderate violence is acceptable to show, it should not be shown in detail or frequently. There should not be any emphasis on blood, death or crude injuries. However some gory scenes are permitted if justified by the context. Sexual violence may be shown very briefly in no specific detail and must have a valid reason to include this.

Political Thriller - Conventions

The conventions of a political thriller :

• threat is set against a back drop of political power struggle
• plots are designed to give political power to someone
• opponent characters are set up to try and prevent people receiving power
• two sets of characters - ranked in authority.

An example of a political-thriller that we looked at was "the interpreter".

The typical conventions that we recognised throughout this trailer of a political-thriller, were immediately noticed through the dialogue used where the characters where talking about the political threat of someone planning to kill the president and the protagonist who was trying to prevent this from happening. Furthermore the enigma at the beginning was the threat which again follows the typical conventions that you find in this sub-genre.

In the trailer it becomes apparent that the antagonist is the person trying to gain political power by killing the president and then taking over the country, another typical convention.

Nicole Kidman, the protagonist was the character in the film who was trying to prevent the opponent characters of receiving the power of ruling the country by informing the government of the phone call she received.

It was clearly shown the ranked authority of the two characters in the film because the government did not believe Nicole Kidman's theory of the president going to be assassinated in the future purely because she was their employee and had no importance in their eyes.

Analysis of the film Seven - Mise - en -scene.

Throughout the film Seven, I focused on the micro element of the Mise-en-scene.

At the beginning of the clip it starts off with a shot off Morgan Freeman in his house. This opening clip is a clear view of his clean, tidy and decorated house, showing him dressing up. His clothing is off a stereotypical detective costume smartly dressed with a trench coat and hat; this is showing us his career immediately and that the film will be based around solving murder mysteries and other crimes.

We meet the other detective within the scene, Brad Pitt, who is a contrast to Morgan Freeman, as he is young, a lot more relaxed, and has a cheeky attitude, whilst Morgan is a lot more serious about the situation.

Brad Pitt has an individual detective costume this is a leather jacket and more casual clothes.

Seven uses mise-en-scene to suggest different characteristics for the two different characters. Through the mise-en-scene you can tell that the two policemen are binary opposites. As Brad Pitt is the trendy cop with the unique costume and attitude and chewing gum. Pairing these two characters together creates conflict between the two characters adding an element of drama to the film. One could be referred to a protagonist and the other as an antagonist. These contrasting characters at the beginning create an enigma, to interest the audiences to see the further complications.

The setting starts off with Morgan Freeman’s house, which comes across as a very neat tidy organised house; this is a complete contrast to the typical thriller which starts off with dark gloomy settings. Then we see a complete different setting of the house where the crime is located. The house the crime took place is in immediately all Smokey, undecorated and has a dull, gloomy aspect towards it. This suggests that something terrible happened there.

The detectives then leave the house and walk into the typical urban city. This gives the audience an idea of the location. That it is based around the poorer areas of a city in America, with heavy rain pouring down in a very low class, untidy city.

Micro elements on Se7en. - How it represents the genre.

We looked at Se7en and the four of us looked at an micro element to see how they represent the genre thriller.
Yasmin looked at Editing
Sian looked at music
Tania looked at mise-en-scene
Briarly looked at camera angles and movements

How Vertigo is a classic thriller and how it meets conventions.

We looked at the opening of vertigo to study how the film contains conventions.

From the very beginning, there is fast beat music which is a typical convention in a thriller as it adds drama and creates the atmosphere from the introduction.

Straight away the first characters we see you can instantly tell they are binary opposites. There was two goodies (policemen and detective) who are protagonists and the baddie is the antagonists who is running away from the goodies. This is a classic convention which is commonly used in thrillers as they usually give a good storyline.

The audience can immediately see there is a situation at the beginning which is an enigma and it engages the audience from the introduction which is a popular convention so they can see how there will be further complications in the film.

Another convention is a complication (e.g a fear) in the storyline which in this case as vertigo (The fear of falling and heights) This prevents the protagonist from solving in this storyline which adds to the convention.

The lighting was really dark which is non-diegetic which is a convention often used to add a feel to the storyline and give a wary mood.

The sound effects are apart of a typical convention because in vertigo they use exaggerated sounds on crucial moments to add a thrilling element.

The Dark Knight - Thriller Analysis

I analysed the film The Dark Knight , as it came up as one of the several succesfull thriller films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usIyEL7ut5A

The lighting in this movie is quite dark, this makes it quite creepy and the suspence on the audience quite high.The only place in the moive that is brightly lit is batmans place, this signifies that he is the good character therefore thr bright lighting represents his personality. This makes the audience feel more comfortable when watching this part of the movie as it shows them the different characters and their roles.

The cinematography in this film is effective as it includes a lot of establishing shots of high buldings to create the atmosphere, it also includes a lot of close ups so we can visiualise the facial expressions of the characters. In this clip there is a use of tracking shots so the audience can feel the tension build up. The shots duration are very short this builds up more suspense as it shows everything happening very quickly and rapidly. Their is a lot of high angle shots which shows the view from above this makes the audience feel like they are present and can feel the same emotions as the characters.

The majority of colours used in this clip are black or white or very dull colours, this connotes that the film includes a lot of suspense and not very positive moments.

In some shorts it shows the bad character placed in the middle of the mise en scene this shows his isolation and that many people do not support him as he is the bad character.

The characters are represented very clearly through their costumes and props. The bad characters face is painted in white with a bright red smile across, he looks like a clown and his makeup is all smudged and his eyes look daunting.This clearly shows his evil personality and that his role is to be bad.

Plan for Preliminary task.

For our preliminary task, we have planned to keep the same characters and people acting from our first Preliminary task as it will be easier for us.
Yasmin and Sian will be acting and Briarly and Tania will be filming/directing.

We are using the same location as our first preliminary task as it worked well last time.



This is our storyboard for our Preliminary task.
On the board it explains what shots we will use and extra information such as who is what character, what the actors will be doing, etc.

Script:
Yasmin: You'll never guess what?
Sian: Oh for god sake, I've got so much...
Yasmin: It will only take a minute I promise!
Sian: Go on then...
Yasmin: Sally's only gone and got herself up the duff hasn't she!
Sian: No way? Who's the dad?

*Script may change while filming.

We are doing a preliminary Task because we want to Familiarise ourselves with the equipment, computer software and filming techniques.
We are re-doing it so we can put it on this blog and as we now know more about how things work hopefully this task will be better and run more smoothly.