Generic Conventions research Introduction...
Regulatory Research
The BBFC Guidelines relate to film:
- The BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification and they decide what classification films are put under. The classifications are U, PG, 12A, 12, 15, 18, 18R.
- The main issues concerning sex, drugs, language and violence is that some films may want a specific classification but then it may have too many things in that are too much for the classification they want. There are also problems when people don’t abide by the rules and can go against the law that has been put in place.
- I think the certification my film will be is a 15
- The 15 certification cannot be watched by a person younger than 15 years old.
- The things that a 15 must NOT include are the film as a whole must not have discriminatory language or behaviour.
- Drug taking is allowed to be shown, but the film as whole must not promote drugs use of any kind.
- Horror is also aloud but must not be sexualised; dangerous behaviour (hanging, self-harming etc.) is not to be dwelled on so it cannot be copied.
- Strong language is permitted with works such as the F*** but the word C*** would probably not be accepted except in certain context.
- Nudity may be allowed in sexual context without it being too graphic and nudity with a sexual context is allowed.
- Sex is permitted, but not in great detail. In addition, strong sexual references (verbal) are permitted, as long as they are not extremely strong.
- No theme is permitted unless it is suitable for 15 year olds.
- Violence can be strong but it cannot dwell on the person inflicting the pain.
- This will not affect our film as we don’t have anything that is not aloud.
- Reading these guidelines really helped me thing about what we could have as I was nervous about showing some nudity but as it is not in a sexual nature it is aloud. Finally I have learnt that strong language is aloud but I have learnt that certain words are not permitted.
This is the first thing that i was asked to do to create this blog and research into my chosen genre of film. I discover a lot about the genres that I didn't know as there are many different types of Rom-Coms and Sports comedies.
The main focus of this exercise was Rom-Coms as this is our final chosen genre and Sports comedy is our back up idea. I researched this to help me focus on the specific genre and the character, camera shots etc. that come along with them.
I didn't realise that there is actually a lot of dialogue in Rom-Coms than in other films, therefore meaning that there are many over the shoulder shots. As well as this, i found that in sports comedies there are a lot of panning shots of the sporting action (mainly when people are running across a sports pitch. The setting for a Rom-Com is that they are mainly set in a city so this is very important that when we start filming that we should try to create a city like background. However, in Sports Comedies they are mainly set in schools so this again important to take into consideration when we begin to film.
The main focus of this exercise was Rom-Coms as this is our final chosen genre and Sports comedy is our back up idea. I researched this to help me focus on the specific genre and the character, camera shots etc. that come along with them.
I didn't realise that there is actually a lot of dialogue in Rom-Coms than in other films, therefore meaning that there are many over the shoulder shots. As well as this, i found that in sports comedies there are a lot of panning shots of the sporting action (mainly when people are running across a sports pitch. The setting for a Rom-Com is that they are mainly set in a city so this is very important that when we start filming that we should try to create a city like background. However, in Sports Comedies they are mainly set in schools so this again important to take into consideration when we begin to film.
I have done Sports comedy conventions as this is our back up idea for the filming, just in case the Rom-Com doesn't work.
Conventions of a Sports Comedy...
The following are a list of conventions that I have discovered about the Sports comedy genre:
• Male lead
• Has a sport in it.
• Person that is weak at the sport that then gets better.
• Bad character- good at the chosen sport and are mean to the weaker character.
• Coach- comic or moral character.
• Violence.
• Cheerleaders.
• Jocks
• Most of the time set in a school, very stereotypical.
Conventions of a Rom-Com
The following are a list of conventions that I have discovered about the romantic comedy genre:
- man and women meet in a awkward/funny circumstances
- argument – couple separate
- happy ending
- audience like the main characters, down to earth and likeable personality
- friends or family of main characters will be funny
- lighting will be bright to reflect the tone/mood of the film
- usually set in big cities e.g.
London ,New York - pop, recognisable songs played throughout
- flowery, heart shaped bubble writing for credits
- normal clothes to represent ‘normal/typical’ people
