BBFC

1) Research the BBFC: what is the institution responsible for? How is it funded? What link does it have to government?The British Board of Film Classification BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organisation, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works. Therefore, the BBFC have the overall rights to rate and classify a film. Therefore they will calculate a fee that it will cost the directors when they are trying to get a certificate for the film,as it is an independent body it does not link to the government but does at the same time. As they have all the rights when callsifying a film and also when analysing if it is up to the governments expectations of being screened UK cinemas.  

2) Read this BBFC guide to how films are rated. Summarise the process in 50 words.
Firstly, a film is rated whether it is on dvd on preparing to screened and all films must be make sure they have been approved by the bbfc before they can screen and release it to be viewed by the age appropriate audience. Therefore directors will send a full edited version of a piece of text which will then be approved by the organisations and will log all the improvements needed to be made and what needs to be censored. This includes   

• general context - plot, characters, outline of individual scenes
• timings of key moments, including camera angles, type of shots, on- and off-screen moments
• bad language, sex and drug references and so on.

Finally, if the a piece of texts contains any illegal or unacceptable behaviour the examiners will draw up a list of cuts that must be put into the work to fix the problems if the work to out reach it can be rejected altogether.  
3) Read this BBFC outline of the issues faced when classifying a film. Summarise the debate in 50 words. This overall concerns the controversies that will come when a film is rated which includes the fact if it is the right certificate being given to the work.  for example, desensitising a potential viewer to the effects of violence and if the text is not in the reach of the intend certificate it will raise awareness to the audience and could affect their overall experience. Therefore BBFC must take into account  

• Violence

• Sex

• Sexual Violence

• Drugs

• Horror

• Imitable Behaviour

• Discrimination

• Language

 However the main over all appeal of a text is to be able to raech to widest possible audience when the text is at box office. 

4) Read this BBFC section on controversial decisions. Why did The Dark Knight generate a large amount of media coverage regarding its certificate? Do you agree with the 12A certificate The Dark Knight was awarded?

5) What are the guidelines for a 15 certificate?
A 15 certificate is given to a film however firstly the film must not be breaking the following rules,  Discrimination, Drugs, Imitable behaviour, Language, Nudity, Sex, Threat and Violence. the work must take into account that they are allowed to use the following however, they must not over do it and glorify any or to keep it to a certain extent because to get a 15 they the work must not contain make all of this context discreet and to the 15 certificate. However if the information is out of subject they turn down the work or ask make the distributor edit the work only if and when the work has been seen by the BBFC.    

6) The BBFC website offers an explanation of every classification it makes and detailed case studies on selected titles. Choose one 15-rated film from the BBFC case studies section and summarise the classification the film was given and why. 
Deadpool: It rated 15 in the uk as it has the following  has been certified 15 in the UK, with no scenes cut from the film. The BBFC stated the Ryan Reynolds starring flick features "strong bloody violence, strong language and sex references. 

Evaluation

Firstly what this task consisted of and what out intentions where to do and create a 30 seconded clip therefore we needed to use these key aspects of editing :

Match On Action

Shot/Reverse Shot

180 Degree Rule

The planning processIn my opinion I think with the my group the lack of communication had a impact on the planing therefore the editing go to plan. However, the creation of planning did get completed, furthermore if the planning was not finished on time the task would have not been finished. Therefore this helped take action further when actually filming as well being more prepared of what to film and what to use.
In particular with this planning I think that there was still a lot of  room for improvement as not much was done properly and this had a problem on the  Planning had to consist of a: script, shot list, storyboard and ideas of mise en scene. As the planning was done last minute the shots had to decided on the shot, which meant we has to improvise with shots that we had to create on the scene.

Strengths:

1. The 180 degree rule was used correctly
2. Managed to include some continuity editing
3. Type of shots used (such as handheld shot) gave the video the action codes we wanted to achieve.

Weaknesses:

1. Some shots (such as dialogue scene) was out of frame. 
2. Background, non-diegetic audio was too loud thus making the dialogue scene inaudible. 
3. Lighting was off during some scenes (couldn't see characters).
4. Editing was a tad bit too fast paced, causing it to be quite confusing and fast for the audience to understand what is going on.
5. Subjects were too close to camera in the shot/reverse shots.   
6. Make more use of the DSLR - use more extravagant shots 
7. Planning was done last minute - a lot of improvisation

How I will improve for my actual film, i shall use a better sound quality to help understand the genre this will also allow the and also have better communication with my group peers to make sure that everything is being done correctly with in the group which will mean that the content will flow and make a better experience for the audience viewings and pleasures. Furthermore some of the shots where out frame which meant that we did not have good communication with the cameraman or just the fact we did not know how to zoom out with the lens, this in particular was because the fact that it did not have that feature thus it prevented the actors to be out of frame.

However, all in all we did mange to make a 30 second clip that had minor issue which was because the editing was done in such short amount of time, therefore if more time was give I presume we would have gotten rid of these technical issue. Also when editing we all managed to start making our clip which meant we was not technically working in group. This then lead us to think we should think about our future group working as this could mean a critique in groups when deciding for next exercise.