Post production techniques

This is the opening shot of post production and in this shot I added the sound of the train as it gave me options of what mood to open to as I chose a loud, suden train sound it gave the opening to the documentary an edgy and dangerous feel to it.

This is the start of a voice over as it helps the audience gets an idea of what they are watching along with the voice over there is background music to help set the mood for the film.

At this part of my documentary sequence the interview begins with the name of the interviewee popping up at the bottom so the audience know who's talking. I got his name to fade it and fade which adds to the ghostly feel of the sequence along side the sound effect underneath the interview speech. The sound effects is a spooky exhaling effect and adds thriller theme to the documentary. As well as the cut aways  of the police newspaper at the end of the shot, the cut aways was place their specifically so that you cant't see the jump cut between shots and looks like the interview is made up of one shot. Also it helps the audience to get more of an idea of what Peter is talking about and see visually what he is talking about, this give it a brilliant effect for the audience.


Here are some examples of post production techniques:
  
This is a shot of my editing in progress, as you can see there is alot of clips either put randomly or clumps together, these are the cut away that  I used, by looking at this you can see how much detailed editing it takes and how much time it take to make it look how you want it, there are alot of differet eliments involved.

Here is a shot of how I have set the footage films in promier pro, I am name the shots so it is easier to find when I need them.

 

 I have a seperate file for the sounds that I used in the fillm

 
 As you can see I used many different sounds to create my docuementary, I used this many to help create emotion and genre within the film.

 This is a screenshot of how I arranged the sound in the editing process, I also specicically editing the sound to fade in, fade out and to be adjusted.

Here is an example of my editing desicion, these are two shots that are very similar to where they are filmed.

The shot below is from a pedestrians point of view and is much lower angle then from the other shot. This shots lighting is also dimmer and just generally a dark image so I decided to use the other shot of the river. As it is much brighter and warmer to view, is a higher angle so you see more scenary. The shot its self is actually a paning shot of the river unlike the one below.

 

This is the shot I decided to use in the documentary. You can see just my having the images to gether that the one below is a more porfessional and styled choice. It also makes the view feel more of a spectator which is a good start to a and this documentary.

Set design

Treatment

Research into age rating from the BBFC

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984. The British Board of Film Censors was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent body to bring a degree of uniformity to the classification of film nationally. 
The BBFC is a not for profit organisation, and its fees are adjusted only to cover its costs. In order to preserve its independence, the BBFC never receives subsidies from either the film industry or the government. Its income is solely from the fees it charges for its services, calculated by measuring the running time of films or DVDs submitted for classification. The BBFC consults the Department of Culture, Media and Sport before making any changes to its fees.

2) Show your understanding of the age rating and certificates that the BBFC use.

Each film that gets released has undergone a process through the BBFC to decide the age rated certificate for the film. This certificate is based on the explicit scenes and information that are in the films for example if a film has a lot of nudity with in it then the film will have a higher age rating to protect young children being exposed to graphical content that they should yet be viewing. This also accounts for other material in films such as blood, gore, voilence, drug abuse, sexual nature, swearing (violent language) and other materials that fall under this category. 

Examiners look at issues such as discrimination, drugs, horror, imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, sexual violence, theme and violence when making decisions. They also consider context, the tone and impact of a work (how it makes the audience feel) and even the release format (for example, as DVDs, Blu-rays and videos for download are watched in the home, there is a higher risk of under-age viewing).

3) What legal backing does the BBFC certification have?

The BBFC is an independent body which was originally established by the film industry in 1912. Local Authorities were made responsible for what was shown in cinemas and from early on accepted the decisions of the BBFC. There are obvious benefits to both Local Authorities and the film industry in having a central but independent body bring consistency to the age rating process and accept responsibility for decisions.

Local Authorities remain legally responsible for what is shown in cinemas under the Licensing Act 2003 and can still overrule the decisions of the BBFC. This does not happen very often. Local Authorities add an important element of local democracy into the classification process.

The BBFC have 7 different age rating for various reason in film. The age rating they set are U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18, R18 they rating are guidelines for the target audience of the film so that  the audience have are reference of what the film is about and a reference for the recommended age of the film. The films get given age ratings depending on the content of the film, for example if a film had guns, violence and sex scenes the film will more likely get an age rating of 18 when if the film had none of those in and has fairies and pixies for example the film with be a U because the film is more child friendly. If a film has a higher age rating then the target audience is for a much more mature audience and no kids will legally be able to watch the film. 

For an example in my short documentary that will be considered as a 15 or an 18 due to the graphical content of Catherine Eddowes.

Script and mind map

The white chapel murder script from Luke Bennett

Risk assessment