Media Classification

 

The Film, DVD and video game regulations.

*HORROR is in capitals  and higlighted because my final task is horror so thats what im focusing on.

• 
  Suitable for all
• No discrimination
• No drugs(illegal or the misuse of drugs)
• HORROR- Scary sequences these are mild, brief and also it is unlikely to cause anxiety to young children.
• No dangerous behaviour.
• No frequent bad language.
• Only natural nudity (no sexual content)
• Mild sexual behaviour.
• Mild Violence

• 
  Parental guidance
• Some scenes may be unsuitable for children.
• These films shouldnt disturb children aged 8 years and over.
• Parents are to choose whether the film could upset their children.
• Discriminatory language isn't going to be acceptable unless it is educational/historical or it is clearly disaproved.
• Illegal drug use must have a suitable anti-drug message or innocuous.
• HORROR - scenes shouldnt be intense.
• No dangerous behaviour  that children could copy.
• Mild bad language.
• Natural Nudity.
• Sexual activity should be discreet and not frequent.
• Mild Innuendo.
• No serious issues should condone unacceptable beaviour.
• No detailed violence.

• 
  Cinema release suitable for 12 years and over
• Same criteria as 12.
• The category only exists in cinema films.
• The adult may take a child if under 12 but they must be accompanied.
• HORROR- Moderate. physical and psychological threat may be permited provided disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained.
• Nudity is allowed, sexual content must be brief and discreet.
• Sexual activity may be briefly and discreetly potrayed.
• Mature themes are acceptable.
• Moderate violence is allowed but should not dwell on detail.

• 
  Video release suitable for 12 years and over
• Same criteria for 12A

• 
  Suitable only for 15 years and over
• HORROR- Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.
• There may be frequent strong language for example ('fuck'). The strongest terms for example ('cunt') may be acceptable if justified.
• Nudity is allowed without strong detail.
• Sex may be portrayed but without strong detail.
• No theme is prohibited provided it is appropriate.
• Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the pain or injury.

• 
  Suitable only for adults
• Any theme
• Violence is allowed in almost any way.
• Sex education at '18'
• Sex works at '18'.
• Adults should be free to choose their own entertainment.
• Any detailed portrayel of violent or dangerous acts or of illegal drug use which may cause harm to public health or morals is not acceptable.
• Sex works is confined.
• Original sex scenes.
• Violence which might, for example, eroticise or endorse sexual assault is not acceptable.

 

 

Analysis of the opening titles of Insidious

Analysing the opening titles for insidious



The opening titles of insidious have many aspects that can establish genre, character and narrative. These aspects are,setting, props, lighting, costume and make-up, movement and framing and composition.

 The mise en scene of the opening titles includes the setting,costumes,lighting,characters,make-up and props. The costumes aren't very clear on the opening titles as we only see ghostly figures and shadows, we see a ghostly lady holding a candle and she is wearing very dark clothing, a connotation of dark is bad and evil so this suggests the woman is evil. The lighting is low key in the opening titles this creates a scary , mysterious feeling to the audience. These feelings link to the conventions of the genre which is horror. The setting is a family home the opening titles show every room in black and white which creates a sense of mystery and spookiness which also links to the horror genre. The characters in this film aren't really shown in the opening tiles, only in a family photo of all four of them together so we can't find out much about the characters in the titles. There are alot of props used in the opening tiles to create a realistic feel to the house of the family. One of the props the grandfather clock is shown alot this could be suggesting importance. We don't see much make-up in the film only on the ghostly woman holding a candle her make up is done to make her look pale which creates a sense of ghostliness. The titles of the film are in red, connotations of red are danger and blood this links to the horror genre. The sound in these titles is there to create a tense feeling for the audience and at the start there is non diagetic sound. The music that cover the rest of the opening titles is eerie and creates a sense of mystery.

The title sequence attracts the audience because we are made to feel like we want to know more as we don't see much of the characters and don't find out much so we want to know more by watching the film. Also the tense feeling and fear gives you a nervous feeling but you also want to find out what is going to happen for example, who is the ghost? why is she in the house? I consider the target audience to be teenagers as they are at an age where they aren't too scared to watch the horror film and they also like to have a laugh with friends being scared at watching it too. The age rating is a 15 so this suggests the main audience age as it is too scary for younger people to watch and it could make them really uncomfortable and frightened. The film is produced by FilmDistrict and this is not shown in the opening titles which could be a bad thing as you don't know who the film is produced by which is an important piece of information.

Analysis of opening titles to The Conjuring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preliminary Task: In the making

This is a short clip of the work of my group while we are planning our preliminary task.

 

Things I notice from horror opening title analysis

In my first two analyses of horror I have analysed zombie land and insidious, this is because I prefer to watch comedy horror and paranormal supernatural horrors.  I realised that I preferred analysing Insidious out of the two because overall paranormal supernatural horrors are my strongest liking. I have also noticed that the opening titles can tell the story of the film really well before you even start to watch it. Different elements such as sound and mise en scene help us to understand the titles further and what they are trying to put across.

My overall opinion on analysing the opening titles of horror films

This is a video of me explaining what i thought overall about analysing the opening titles to horror films.
Thanks to my brother who recorded it and interviewed me but sorry about how noisy he is in the background at times (especially at the start), also he isn't the best at keeping the camera still while videoing either. Also there is a part somewhere where we get words muddled up too oops!!

Evaluation of preliminary task

EVALUATION

 

Our preliminary task was the first time we had ever filmed a short piece of film, considering this we did quite well.

I think the positives from this was we used all of things we needed to which were demonstrate match on action, the 180 degree rule and shot/reverse shot. We could of improved by filming each scene more than once because if you only film once we noticed we had quite shaky camera movement and due to not being able to film again this made this task look quite unprofessional.

It was our first try filming so we tried our best and this is what we came out with:






Our Preliminary Task Shooting Schedule

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

1. A medium shot of both characters standing opposite each other.
2. Point of view shot Bfrom female's (Lucy's) view looking at the male (Sam) talking.
3. Point of view shot from male's (Sam's) view looking at the female (Lucy) when she replies to same talking. Staying within the 180 degree rule. Shots 2 and 3 will be edited together to show a use of Shot Reverse Shot.
4. Zoom towards the male's(Sam's) face when he sees the female (Lucy) walk through the door and walk across the room.
5. Close-up from behind the female's (Lucy's) shoes when she walks through the door.
6.  A close-up from the front of the female's (Lucy's) shoes when she enters the room. Shots 5 and 6 will be edited together to show use of Match On Action.
7. Tracking shot of female's (Lucy's) shoes as she walks across the room towards the table where the male (Sam) will be sitting.
8. Close-up of Lucy's mouth when she smiles when she sees the male (Sam).

 

 

Some shots we used in our preliminary task

Preliminary Task

Our Preliminary Task Final Video 

 

Me, Elle, Rebeka and Lucy worked together over a few weeks planning, filiming and editing our preliminary task to come up with this video that we filmed over 1 lesson.

 



 

 

Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vXWHDEzNwApoiaPc7WTwROwRCBEp6Ydy8NZ7hEB0HRs/viewform
This is the link to my questionnaire.

Evaluation of  Lewis Barnard's questionnaire

 

This questionnaire is very simple, it doesn't have too many questions which is a good thing because it will attract people to take part in the questionnaire if they know that it wont take up too much of their time. It also includes a picture which also adds interest to the questionnaire. It gets to the point, the point of the questionnaire is to find out people's expectations of horror films. There are different types of questions too.

An improvement would be make sure you set the write question boxes for the right answers, for example: on the age question you can select more than one answer and on the gender question too, the only other improvement could be to make sure that you add a few more questions involving horror films and about them.

Analysis of opening titles of ZOMBIELAND

Analysis of ZOMBIELAND opening titles

 setting, props, lighting, costume and make up, movement, framing and composition

 

 The setting for the opening titles of this film is a mixture, it goes from a street in a town to a wedding day. The setting can tell us a lot about the film, well the title tells us a lot as its 'zombieland' but the setting can say a lot about the film too, the setting is a connotation of a zombie film in a town. Some of the props in these film opening titles are, riot shields, crow bar and guns. These are also a connotation of a zombie film as they are weapons and in many zombie films there are weapons as we associate the weapons with the killing of zombies. The lighting of these titles is high key lighting, high key light is made up of more filler lights and produces bright lighting and it looks natural and realistic. The costumes used in the opening titles are what you would expect to see in zombie films , every day wear by the zombies and other characters in the opening titles too. This shows alot about the film because these are the characters that will be in the film as they are being foreshadowed in the opening titles. The make-up is very effective making the actors/actresses look like zombies and look scary which is what people expect from a zombie film. Also scariness attracts viewers to the film as many people enjoying watching horrors and having laughs with their friends as everyone gets scared. Movement of the titles is a very fast pace this is related to zombies. We think of zombies and think of running away or fighting which is fast pace. The framing and composition is very good because most of the time the focus of each shot in the titles is in the centre. For example on the wedding day shot we see the bride and groom in the middle and our attention is drawn to the important part of the shot.

The titles of the film are red, a connotation of red is danger which is what we expect in a horror film so this shows how the titles and film are linked. Overall the opening titles of Zombieland are what we expect to see, running away from zombies, weapons and blood these are all conventions of the horror genre which zombieland is a part of.

 

 

 

 

Representation of People in the media

Conventional Represenatations - What we expect

Mean Girls

• Hair and Make Up
• Pink- related to girls
• Clothes- Skirts and heels
• Long Hair

Representation that challenges stereotypes. - What we dont expect

G.I Jane

• Shaved Hair
• Dark
• No Make Up

JACK WILSHIRE (ARSENAL PLAYER)

 



Here jack is being negatively represented as he is smoking while out socializing this shows that he isn't behaving properly and makes the audience that usually see him as a footballer(below photo) are shocked as smoking can impact his health and others around him.

 

Here jack is being positively represented as a talented football player that he usually is playing  for Aresnal this is what the audience like to see.

Analysis of the opening tiltles of 'Seven'

The props in these opening titles tell us a lot about the setting/location. You can see a lamp and a desk this automatically gives us a connotation of a study or office. The props also tell us about the genre, there are scissors and blades this connotes a horror genre because of the connotations we get from blades and scissors being dangerous and weapons, which are often used in horror films.

Self Evaluation:
I think this work us at a grade low D. This is because i have only given a simple analysis with very little explanation. To improve i need to make sure that i include detailed analysis and expand on my points further to secure a good grade.