Final Storyboard

My storyboard contribution

 I was in charge of the last section for our storyboard, which is the operation and the final revealing.

 The BBFC & Film Certificates

The BBFC stand for " British Board of Film Classification". It is a regulatory board, which is a company that is in charge of setting rules for certain set of productions. 

What they do...

• Set rules about what can /can't be shown in the film
• giving age certificates to all films in UK

Films cannot be released if they haven't been check with BBFC. 

what they consider when rating the film:

- Dangerous behaviour

- Discrimination 

- Drugs

- Language

- Nudity

- Sex

- Threat and Horror

- Violence

Age Certificates

There are 5 ratings use for cinema, 12 is use for DVD:

- U 

• Every one can be able to watch U rating film, it is rate for pre-school children.
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- PG

• Unaccompanied children of any age may watch.
• General viewing but some scenes may unsuitable for young children.
• Parents are advised to consider if it might upset children.
• CAN be include:
• drug must be innocuous/ anti drug message
• Mild bad language (not frequent)
• Nudity
• Mild sex references / innuendo
• Light frightening sequence (fantasy/ comedic may mitigating factors)
• Mild violence (moderate violence, no details can be justified by context, e.g. history, fantasy)
• CANNOT be include:
• no detail of potential dangerous behaviour
• no easily accessible weapons
• no focus on anti social behaviour
• discrimination (unless clearly disapproved)
• Aggressive bad language
• no sexual context
• Intense threat/ horror
• Intense Violence

- 12A

• Suitable for age 12 and above
• Under age 12 must be accompanied with adult.
• CAN be include;
• infrequent misuse of drugs ( no detail instruction)
• Brief sexual context
• nudity
• moderate physical and psychological threat and horror sequences. 
• infrequent horror scenes. (overall tone should not be)
• not detailed violence
• CANNOT be include:
• no injuries or blood
• frequent sexual context
• no promotiion dangerous behaviour
• no easily accessible weapons
• no endorsement of anti social behaviour.

- 15

• no younger than 15 can see the film in the cinema or buy or rent video works.
• CAN be include:
• no detail dangerous behaviour
• Drug (not promote drug misuse)
• strong language (very strong language depends on setting)
• nudity
• sexual context without strong detail
• strong threat and horror
• strong violence
• CANNOT be include:
• no strong sadistic violence
• not dwell on pain or injury
• no sadistic threat
• no strong and sustained focus on sexual threat
• no highly dangerous substance of drug
• the work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory language
• no detail on dangerous behaviour

- 18

• no younger than 18 can watch the film in the cinema or buy/ rent any 18 video works
• Can be include:
• where the material is in breach of the criminal law
• where material or treatment appears to us to risk harm to individuals, or through their behaviour or the society.
• CANNOT be include:
• detail image of real sex

12 is age certificates for video works.

The production company of the film can re-edit their film if they are not happy with the rating.

Hunger Game was first rate as 15, they wanted more people to watch the film so they re-edit the violence scene, wipe away bloods and not clear and detailed injury. In the end they rate as 12A in the cinema but 15 as DVD. This is because that children can play DVD without any adults' accompany. 

The audiences can also complained about the rating.

Joker was rated 15 but the audiences debate that it should be 18 because there are sensitive sequences.

My coursework age certificate:

I consider our coursework's rate can be 15. There are injury picture but not detailed and no violence or sexual violence scenes. Language is not strong. In the opening we have nudity but that is acceptable for 15 rate films. 

Film Soundtracks

In today's lessons we learnt different layers of sounds in the film:

• ambient sound
• Dialogue
• Non diegetic / diegetic sound
• Sound effect (Foley Sound)
• Voice Over

Ambient Sound

We hear ambient sounds in the film to get a sense of locations. Ambient sound includes background noise, distant chatter, wind, traffic etc. Most likely the ambient sound is recorded during the set. It is also part of diegetic sound.

Dialogue

Dialogue is the conversation or noise that the actors make, such as speech etc.

Non diegetic / diegetic sound

Diegetic;

- it is the Greek term for "world" and  is used in film analysis to describe the 'narrative world' of a film.

- it is any sound we would expect to hear of we were part of the narrative world, for example footsteps, doors opening etc.

- Diegetic sound could be include:

• Dialogue
• Sound effect 
• Ambient sound

Non diegetic sound

- it is sound which has been added on top of the film to support the mood and atmosphere that the filmmaker is trying to convey.

- It is usually the form of added music, such as theme music etc.

Sound effect (Foley Sound)

sound effect is for the sound that we expect to hear in the film 'narrative world' but couldn't be done on set, such as swords, monster noises etc. These sound would be create by foley artists.

Here are two videos I found on YouTube about making sound effects...

 

Voice Over

Can be either diegetic or non diegetic. Voice over can be present as it is part of the 'narrative world' such as the character talking to someone that we can't see but we can hear the voices. It mostly is a technique where a voice that is not part of the 'narrative world' has been added later on for storytelling or create atmosphere.

Activity:

I searched up a opening scene from the movie 'The Great Gatsby' and in there have many different type of sounds.

Starting with dialogue and connect to the voice over.

And the soundtrack begins, through the whole opening scene. There are sound effect such as coins, aircraft noise.

Ambient sound such as car noise, birds etc.

Activity 2

I tried to add in sounds to the sequence I did last week.

I have added some sound effects and soundtracks at the back...

Task: Film a sequence

 Today we looked at how to film a sequence:

• The master shot - which is the wide angel of the scene

• Coverage - the mid shot of the scene/ the close shot of the scene

We need to film the whole sequence for different shot, this is because when we edit the sequence we might have extra shots from the filming which we did not plan on. It also gives us more choices while editing.

Combining with rule of third and the 180 degree rule in order to complete a good sequence.

Activity:

I have filmed a sequence to show my understanding.

 Step by Step Outline

• Camera tracking the body from feet (with label and robe tied onto the table) to hands (tied up, shows hands move a little) to head.
• Close up to eyes, suddenly eyes open (sound effect + deep breathing)
• Long shot of the setting (the body should be on the table)
• Back to the clone, struggling to move, saw the surgery tools on the table next to him
• Try to get the knife ( start playing door open and close sound + foot step ) (As the foot step sound louder, the closer he got the knife)
• He got the knife and lied down, the door opens (we see the doctor opens the door and walk in)
• The doctor walks towards the clone (only film his body not face)
• The doctor put on gloves and organize the tools
• The doctor lift up the blanket on the clone
• Shot of the cuts on the clone's body
• The clone starts to attack the doctor
• The doctor presses him on the table (over the shoulder) we see the doctor's blood dripping on the clone's face (deep breathing for both of them)
• When they are staring at each other (the clone trying to see the doctor's face) the doctor took an injection from the table and injected the clone.
• The clone closes his eye (close up on eyes)
• Montage starts :  Slow montage of around the room then sudden flashes to the operation scene and back to the setting. Later on the more operation scene flash in and in the end mess around the operation scenes and black out/
• The doctor holding the objects (chip, label)
• He puts down the chip next to the sink
• Walk to the mirror, wash off the blood, place the objects next to him.
• Camera moves on and the doctor takes off the mask, reveal himself.

 Storyboard

What is storyboarding?

Storyboarding is a process which helps the production team and filmmaker to:

• plan and organize the filming
• guide the filming, leads how it looks
• visualizing the shots
• the storyboard usually is rectangular therefore is the same frame as the screen

• Include information from the script into shots.

• It should be illustrate everything will be in the shot.
• should be include what shot would like to be, for example: close up, mid shot etc.

here is a video about what is storyboarding...

Why is storyboarding important?

Before filming...

• helps with considering shots in a visual way, for example using close up or mid shot.
• storyboard is the first look of the film, so the filmmaker can see what is good and what is not in order to develop it.

After filming...

• Help the editor to see what the final should be like
• Guide the editor to decide what is better, as the story board doesn't show all the actions and shots
• Help the editor to develop the final.
  
  
  

Here is a video of why is important and how to make one.