The BBFC

The BBFC

The BBFC stands for "British Board of Film Classification. The British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry and is responsible for the national classification and censorship of films within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the Video Recordings Act 2010. 

Current Certificates: 

- U Certificate is suitable for all ages

- A film rated U is suitable for all ages of four and up

- Films with a U certificate should include moral situations and should include a happy ending, with characters that would appeal to the younger generations and make them laugh. 

- Some examples are; The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast etc. 

- PG certificate (Parental Guidance) is suitable for all ages

- Certain scenes may be unsuitable for young children

- Films with a PG certificate should not disturb children aged 8 years or over. May contain mild language and sex/drugs references. Parents may wish to check the film before they let their children watch it. 

- Some examples are; Frozen, Annie etc. 

- 12A certificate is suitable for children under the age of 12 if accompanied by an adult 

- It is unlikely to be suitable for children under the age of 12 

- Films under this category can contain mature themes, discrimination, soft drugs, infrequent strong language and moderate violence, sex references and nudity. 

- Some examples are; Skyfall, The Hunger Games, Pacific Rim etc. 

- 12 certificate is suitable for children aged 12 and over 

- Films under this category can contain mature themes, discrimination, soft drugs, infrequent strong language and moderate violence,sex references and nudity. 

- 12 and 12A certificate are similar

- Some examples are; Top Gun, Spider-man, The Lord of the Rings etc. 

- 15 certificate is suitable for children aged 15 and over 

- Films under this category can contain adult themes, hard drugs, regular use of foul language and limited use of very strong language, strong violence and strong sex references, and nudity without graphic detail. 

- Some examples are; Ted, Mama, The Heat etc. 

- 18 certificate is suitable for children aged 18 and over 

- Films under this category do not have limitation on the foul language that is used. Hard drugs are generally allowed, and explicit sex references along with detailed sexual activity are also allowed. 

- The rating certificate is used to protect younger children from seeing things that may cause them distress or make them feel upset and vulnerable. 

- Some examples are; Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill etc. 

- Restricted 18 certificate is suitable for 18 year olds and over 

- Films that are rated R18 can only be shown in specific cinema's that are licensed for the content that will be shown. They can only be supplied in licensed sex shops and to nobody under the age of 18.





Our thriller: 

Our thriller is a psychological thriller and therefore I think that it would be rated:

I would rate it this because our target audience for our thriller will be students at the age of 15 or older. 

Our Thriller

Alter-Ego

 

Sound

Sound in our thriller opening title sequence

 

In our thriller opening title sequence we want to use music which reflects the genre and the theme of our psychological thriller. Our thriller opening title sequence has the theme of light and dark personalities. We have looked at other thriller opening title sequences that inspire us and have looked at the soundtrack they use in these sequences. For example the opening sequences we looked at were "Se7en" and "Dexter", both of these openings had different types of soundtrack, "Se7en" soundtrack created tension and sounded creepy this made the opening titles different and stand out. Whereas "Dexter" soundtrack showed the thriller genre and created tension throughout the sequence. 

 

All of the scenes in our thriller will be silenced so that the background diegetic sound will not be heard, in certain parts of our opening for example when the teenage girl hears the noises. The noises made by the alter-ego will be emphasized in editing and become non-diegetic sound so that it creates tension and so that the noises that are made are clear to the audience. The soundtrack used in our thriller opening title sequence will start as soon as the animation starts to create tension, this is inspired by the opening title sequence of "Se7en". This is typical of the thriller genre as the diegetic sound is usually not heard instead the non-diegetic sound is quietly played throughout the opening sequence, the soundtrack slowly starts to build in the crosendo this creates and builds the tension to show that a certain character is the antagonist.

 

The soundtrack we have decided to use in our thriller opening title sequence is below. I have used the music called "creepy music box" from YouTube and edited it using "Garage Band" to make the soundtrack better and to suit our thriller opening sequence. We decided to use this soundtrack from YouTube because we thought that with a little bit of editing it would suit our thriller opening sequence and it would reflect the thriller genre.

This is the soundtarck before it was edited using Garage Band.

 

Location Scouting

 

 

 

 

The video of the location is below.

 

 

Filming Schedule

Date	Scene	Details	Location	Props/ Actors
29/11/14	Outside of the house	Shot of the outside of house to show location and to show that the character is a typically normal teenage girl.	Outside the house	No props No actor
29/11/14	Bedroom	Shot of the magazines on the floor which have claw marks and hand blood on.	Bedroom	Props: Fake blood and magazines. Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Living room	Shot of the living room with the girl reading a magazine and watching TV.	Living room	Props: Magazine Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Living room	Shot of the girl flicking through the magazine where some titles may appear.	Living room	Props: Magazine Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Living room	Girl hears noises from upstairs.	Living room	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Living room	Girl walking towards the door.	Living room	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Living room/    stairs	Girl beginning to walk upstairs.	Living room/ stairs	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Living room/ stairs	Girl opens the door to upstairs.	Living room/ stairs	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Stairs	Girl walks upstairs.	Stairs	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Stairs	Girl on the stairs.	Stairs	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Stairs	Walking to the bedroom door.	Stairs	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Stairs	Girl opening the door.	Stairs	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	Bedroom door has titles appear on it.	Bedroom	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	Girl opens door to alter-ego.	Bedroom	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	Alter-ego on bedroom floor.	Bedroom	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	Close up of girl’s facial expression.	Bedroom	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	Alter-ego revealing their identity.	Bedroom	No props Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	Shot of the A3 poster on the wall.	Bedroom	Props: Poster Actor: Abbie
29/11/14	Bedroom	The alter-ego ripping the poster of the wall.	Bedroom	No props Actor: Abbie

Company ident

Our Company ident for our thriller: 

Our company ident is hand drawn and will be used at the start of our thriller opening title sequence before the animation starts. Our company ident does not move this is because we thought that it would look better without having a moving feature. Our company ident has the name AMOA on, this is because our company name is AMOA productions. It reflects the thriller genre as the tree is creepy looking and the image its self is creative and doesn't look like any that are out there now. Our company ident is unique as it doesn't move and it is hand drawn.

Jerry Bruckheimer films ident is below. This ident is similar to the one we have created however ours doesn't move. Jerry Bruckheimer films ident is similar as it includes a leafless tree and it looks creepy, it also fits the thriller genre as it uses dark lighting throughout the ident. However our company ident does not contain dark lighting as it isn't a moving company ident.

 

Story board

Shot 1 and 2 (1 is on the left and 2 on the right)

                                                                                                                                                            

Shot 1:

Shot: Long shot

Explanation: This shot will show the location that our thriller opening title sequence will be set in. This shot will establish the surroundings (a suburban area) and will show that the character is a typically normal teenage girl.

Duration: This shot will last for about 3-4 seconds.

 

Shot 2:

Shot: Tilt

Explanation: This shot will show magazines scattered across the floor in the bedroom. Some of the magazines will have bloody hand prints on and others will have claw marks on. This shot will also have blood dripping on one of the magazines. This shot will be shown to give the audience a clue that something is not right and will create an engima.

Duration: This shot will last for about 4 seconds.

 

 Shot 3 and 4 (3 is on the left and 4 is on the right)

 

Shot 3:

Shot: Mid shot/ Long shot

Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl reading the magazine and will also show the front cover of the magazine, this is because a title will appear on the cover of the magazine.

Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

 

Shot 4:

Shot: Over the shoulder

Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl flicking through the magazine. Some titles might appear on certain pages as the girl looks through the magazine.

Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

 

Shot 5 and 6 (5 is on the left and 5 is on the right)

 

Shot 5:

Shot: Close up

Explanation: This shot will Shot the teenage girls facial expressions when she starts to hear the noises. After this shot will be a long shot and then a close up of her dropping the magazine.

Duration: This shot will last for 5 seconds.

 

Shot 6:

Shot: Long shot

Explanation: This shot will be a long shot of the girl walking to the door slowly as she is scared of the noises and what could be in the house. A pan will be used as she is walking to the door.

Duration: This shot will last for 4 seconds.

 

 Shot 7 and 8 (7 is on the left and 8 is on the right)

 

 Shot 7:

Shot: Extreme close up

Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl with her hand on the door handel and opening the door.

Duration: This shot will last for 4 seconds.

 

Shot 8:

Shot: Mid shot

Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl walking through the door and into the hallway. A pan will be used as she is walking through to the hallway.

Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

Shot 9 and 10 (9 is on the left and 10 is on the right)

Shot 9:
Shot: Long shot/ Close up/ Extreme close up
Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl walking up the stairs.
Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

Shot 10:
Shot: High angle shot
Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl walking up the stairs.
Duration: This shot will last 4 seconds.

Shot 11 and 12 (11 is on the left and 12 is on the right)

Shot 11:
Shot: Mid shot
Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl walking up to the bedroom door.
Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

Shot 12:
Shot: Extreme close up
Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl opening the door slowly as she is scared of what could be in her bedroom.
Duration: This shot will last 4 seconds.

Shot 13 and 14 (13 is on the left and 14 is on the right)

Shot 13:
Shot: Mid shot
Explanation: This shot will show the bedroom door and will have a title appear on the door.
Duration: This shot will last 4 seconds.

Shot 14:
Shot: Mid shot
Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girl opening the door and walking in to the bedroom. She will be looking around her room and then she will pull back the bedroom door and the alter-ego will be behind the door.
Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

Shot 15 and 16 (15 is on the left and 16 is on the right)

Shot 15:
Shot: High angle shot
Explanation: This shot will show the alter-ego rocking back and forth after the teenage girl found her behind the door.
Duration: This shot will last 4 seconds.

Shot 16:
Shot: Close-up
Explanation: This shot will show the teenage girls facial expressions after seeing the alter-ego. She will also gasp in this shot to show that she is scared.
Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

Shot 17 and 18 (17 is on the left and 18 is on the right)

Shot 17:
Shot: Close up
Explanation: This shot will show the alter-ego looking up at the girl and exposing her face. It will also show her smudging her make up (lip stick).
Duration: This shot will last 3 seconds.

Shot 18:
Shot: Extreme close up
Explanation: This shot will show an extreme close up of the alter-egos eyes.
Duration: This shot will last 3 seconds.

Shot 19 and 20 (19 is on the left and 20 is on the right)

Shot 19:
Shot: Mid shot/ close up
Explanation: This shot will show the alter-ego ripping off the posters covering the title.
Duration: This shot will last 4 seconds.

Shot 20:
Shot: Close up
Explanation: This shot will show the title after all the posters have been ripped off by the alter-ego.
Duration: This shot will last 5 seconds.

Lighting

Lighting:

 We will check the weather the day before we film our thriller opening title sequence, this is because if it is a cloudy day we will need to make sure that we turn all the lights on in the house so that the house isn't dark when we are filming. However if it is a bright day we won't need any of the lights on.

As we might being putting an effect over all the shots in editing to make the film look different and like "Film Noir". We might not have the lights on inside the house if it is a dark gloomy day, this is because we want our thriller opening title sequence to contain natural light so that it looks more realistic.

 

The lighting we will use in our thriller opening title sequence will be inspired by the opening sequence of the thriller film "Se7en". This is because the lighting in this opening titles show that the type of atmosphere we wish to create in our thriller opening sequence. The lighting used in this thriller opening is mostly dark, this is what we want our opening to include especially when the alter-ego is shown. However when the teenage girl is shown the lighting will be brighter and will be show in a natural light this will show a contrast between both the two different types of personalities (light and dark). We have took inspiration from "Se7en" because it uses a lot of dark lighting which creates the connotation that this is a dark film and that it could be a creepy or sinister film. This film uses natural light throughout the opening sequence this is because it makes it look more realistic, this is what we want our thriller opening sequence to contain.

 

Job Roles

It is important that every person has a job role in the production as then every piece of work can be completed efficiently. Without job roles nothing would get done and no one would know what they were doing within the group.

 

Kelsey McPherson - Editor - Kelsey is good for this role because she has had previous experience with editing software. She has also received positive feedback from past editing projects. In the planning Kelsey did lighting, analysis of the pitch, the props. and the shot list.

Holly O'Connell - Director - I am suited to this role because she is good at explaining her ideas and organising groups of people. In the planning I did the job roles, clothing, filming schedule and the shot list.

Elle Abrahams - Producer - Elle is good for this role because she is organised and is good at creating ideas, she is also good at organising a team of people. In planning, Elle did the location, risk assessment and the shot list.

Georgia Allman -  Co-Producer/Make-up - Georgia is suited for this role because she is creative and has good organisational skills. In the planning Georgia did the storyboard, shot list and make-up.

Auditions

Here are the actors auditions and the results. 

 

Character Profile 

 

These actors auditioned for the chance to be the main characters in our thriller opening title sequence, as the two main characters are the same person we only need one actor to play both parts. We will be filming all of the parts that the teenage girl appear in first then we will change the actors make-up and then film all the parts that the alter-ego appears in. Each of the actors in the audition acted out the same scene from our thriller opening, however as we were filming these auditions outside and the ground was still damp from the rain we decided that we would film the actors doing the facial expressions of the alter-ego standing up. In this part of our opening titles sequence the alter-ego is sitting on the floor in the corner of the room rocking back and forth then she reveals her face. We decided that these actors would only act out the part when the alter-ego reveals her face this is because we wanted to know who did the best facial expression to be able to play this role. 

 

Kezia Smith - Kezia has had previous experience within acting as she appeared in a successful theatrical performance. Kezia is well suited to this role as she has done a good audition and she showed a lot of theatrical skills, her facial expression suited this role and character.

Alex Storey - Alex is currently studying drama and she is a good actor and she has had previous experience in acting. Alex took this audition very seriously giving a great performance, however she was not able to accept this role as she had some other commitments at this time.

Leona Bilby - Leona has had previous acting experiences, she gave a good performance however the facial expression she gave us when auditioning was just not how we had imagined the character to have. She was not confident in playing this role and was not comfortable expressing intense emotion which we wanted to see.

Claudia Wilkie - Claudia's performance wasn't very good, this shown by the her laughter at the end of her audition. We decided she wasn't suitable for this role because we wanted to make sure that person who got the role would be able to take it seriously.

Elle Abrahams - Elle gave a great performance, this is because she is in our group and she knows how we wanted this character to act and what facial expression was key for this character. Although she hasn't had any previous experience she gave us a great performance and we thought that she would suit this role well.

The actor we have decided that gets the role is Elle Abrahams this is because she gave a good performance and she was well suited to this role as she showed theatrical skills and her facial expression suited this role and the character. As Elle is in our group she knew how we wanted the different characters to act and she also knew what we wanted her to do. We did not choose Alex to act in our thriller opening sequence because she had other commitments at the time although she gave the best audition, we chose Abbie to be the actor in our thriller opening as she gave the second best audition and could participate in our thriller on the day of filming.

Our pitch

Below is the video of our pitch we did about all our ideas for our thriller opening title sequence.

I think that our pitch went well as we made sure that we explained our points and our ideas. We also made sure that we including typography, job roles, our idea, the style and genre of our thriller and the unique selling point (USP). We explained where the titles might appear throughout our opening sequence and where and when our main title will appear. To improve our pitch we would make sure that we learn what we are going to say before so that we are not reading off a piece of paper.





Our prezi we used in our pitch is above.

The feedback we got from our peers on our pitch was;

Question 1 - Do you like the name? (No 1  2 3  4 5 Yes) and Why?

*Shannon circled the number 5 so this means that she liked our name a lot, she said that it was because it sounds interesting.
*Cameron circled the number 5 so this means that he liked it a lot, he said that it was because its interesting, fits the narrative and leaves the audience with questions.
*Sam circled the number 5 so this means he liked our name a lot, he said that it was because it sounds quite sinister.
*Leona also circled the number 5 so this means that she liked our name a lot, she said it was because it fits the story line and fits the genre of our thriller.

Question 2 - Would you watch the film? (Yes or No) and Why?

*Shannon circled yes and the reason why was because its an interesting narrative and is creative.
*Cameron circled yes and the reason why was because it seems like a new and different idea.
*Sam circled no and the reason why was because it sounds a bit cliché.
*Leona also circled no and the reason why was because its too cliché.

Question 3 - What do you like about the story?

*Shannon said that it is a creative idea and it sounds scary/ freaky.
*Cameron said that he likes the use of just one actor.
Sam said that its well thought out but its similar to many other thrillers.
*Leona said that it seems thrilling and may be scary/ thrilling.

Question 4 - Are the titles clear? (No 1 2 3 4 5 Yes)

*Shannon circled the number 4.
*Cameron circled the number 5.
*Sam circled the number 4.
*Leona circled the number 5.

Question 6 - What would you improve?

*Shannon didn't answer this question.
*Cameron said that he would make more things happen.
*Sam said a better back story.
*Leona said make it less cliché and needs to be more exciting.

Question 7 - Rate the film out of 5 stars, 5* being the best?

*Shannon didn't answer this question.
*Cameron said 4*.
*Sam said 4*.
*Leona said 3*.

From these results we can see that there are mixed views on our thriller idea and we know where we need to improve and how we can improve our idea to make it better.

Our teachers comments are below:

Using the website WWW,dafont.com we chose 5 different types of typography for our thriller title. Each typography is distorted which suits our theme of a psychological thriller. The narrative of our thriller is also quite mysterious and these different types of typography that we chose suit this idea because they all look like titles which could be used in a psychological thriller. We chose the name of our thriller opening title sequence before we looked at the typography this is so that we knew what kind of typography we were looking for and if it related to the genre and the story line.

This screenshot above shows the poll that we created and it also reveals the most popular typography which was number four. This typography is a good choice because it reflects the story line of our thriller opening titles and therefore we will be planning on using this typography all throughout our opening title sequence. This typography suits our thriller genre as it looks like a type-writer font which is sometimes used in this thriller genre, it also reflects the narrative of our thriller. 

Shot list

Number	Location	Description	Action	Props	Actor
1	Outside the house	Shot of the outside of the house to show the location and to show that the character is a typically normal teenage girl.	Long shot and zoom	No props	Abbie
2	Bedroom	Shot of the magazines left on the floor of the bedroom with claw marks and blood hand prints on.	Tilt to show the magazines that are scattered around the room.	Magazines and fake blood	Abbie
3	Living room	Shot of the living room to show where the teenage girl is in the house and what she is doing. This shot will also show the character reading a magazine and the TV playing in the background.	Long shot and zoom in to the cover of the magazine she is reading to show the name of the production company.	Magazine and TV	Abbie
4	Living room	Shot of the teenage girl flicking through a magazine. Some titles might appear on some of the pages in the magazine.	Over the shoulder to show what sort of magazines she is reading as well as showing the titles that may appear.	Magazine	Abbie
5	Living room	The teenage girl hears loud noises coming from upstairs and in this shot she looks up at the ceiling because she knows that’s where the noises are coming from.	Close-up of her facial expressions as she is frightened.	No props	Abbie
6	Living room	The teenage girl walks towards the door which is connected to the stairs slowly this is because she is afraid of what could be upstairs and she doesn’t want it to know that she is in the house.	Long shot of the teenage girl walking to the door.	No props	Abbie
7	Living room	Shot of the teenage girl with her hand on the door getting ready to open it and face what is upstairs making the noises.	Extreme close up to show her actually opening the door.	No props	Abbie
8	Living room	Shot of the teenage girl opening the door and walking through to go up the stairs.	Mid shot to show her walking through the door.	No props	Abbie
9	Stairs	The teenage girl walks up the stairs slowly as she is afraid of what could be up there and she is trying to be as quiet as she can.	Tracking shot with some titles appearing on the stairs. Then pan to show the girl going up the next set of stairs	No props	Abbie
10	Stairs	Shot of the teenage girl stopping on the stairs and listening to the noises and she realises they are coming from her bedroom.	High angle to show that she feels weak and powerless.	No props	Abbie
11	Stairs	Shot of the teenage girl walking up to her bedroom door slowly as she is scared of what could be behind the door.	Mid shot showing that she is scared.	No props	Abbie
12	Stairs	Shot of the teenage girl opening her bedroom door slowly.	Extreme close up to show her actually opening the door.	No props	Abbie
13	Bedroom door	Shot of the title appearing on the bedroom door as the teenage girl opens it.	Close up of the title.	No props	Abbie
14	Bedroom	The teenage girl enters the room while opening the door slowly as she is scared of what could be in there.	Long shot of her slowly walking into her room.	No props	Abbie
15	Bedroom	The alter-ego appears on screen rocking back and forth. This makes the audience wonder who this character is and what is going on.	High angle shot to show the alter-ego rocking back and forth.	No props	Abbie
16	Bedroom	Shot of the teenage girl’s facial expression, this shot will also show the teenage girl gasping loudly.	Close up of the girl’s facial expressions.	No props	Abbie
17	Bedroom	Shot of the alter-ego looking up at the girl and revealing her identity.	Close-up to show the alter-egos face/ identity.	No props	Abbie
18	Bedroom	Shot of the alter-ego ending up looking at the camera.	Extreme close up of the alter-egos face.	No props	Abbie
19	Bedroom	Shot of the A3 poster on the wall.	Long shot	Poster	Abbie
20	Bedroom	The alter- ego ripping it off the wall.	Long shot	Poster	Abbie

Cut away Shot list:

Number	Location	Description	Action	Props	Actor
1	Outside the house	Zoom in to show the house.	Zoom in	No props	Abbie
2	Bedroom	Shot to show magazine covers x2 to show different magazines and the bloody hand prints and claw marks.	Close up	Magazines	Abbie
4	Living room	Shot to show lose up of the pages x5 with quick editing as she is flicking through the pages quickly.	Close up	Magazine	Abbie
9	Stairs	Shot to show her walking up the stairs and to show titles on the wall behind.	Close up/ side view	No props	Abbie
10	Stairs	Shot to show facial expressions.	Close up	No props	Abbie
11	Stairs	Shot to show her stopping on the stairs.	Tilt	No props	Abbie
14	Bedroom	Shot to show girl walking through the door.	Mid shot	No props	Abbie
15	Bedroom	Shot to show alter-ego.	Close up	No props	Abbie
18	Bedroom	Shots to show the alter-ego coming towards the camera.	Extreme close up x5	No props	Abbie
18	Bedroom	Shot to show the teenage girls eyes.	Extreme close up/ graphic match	No props	Abbie
20	Bedroom	Shot to show the alter ego ripping the poster off the wall to show the title.	Close up	Poster	Abbie