Design and Target Audience

Regulatory Bodies- BBFC

The BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification. BBFC is a non-governmental organisation which is funded by the film industry. They are in charge of the national classification and censorship of films within the UK. It is based in London and the only income is from the work they do such as the running time of a film. The BBFC's finances are administered by the Council of Management. The current Council membership is Graham Lee, Steve Jaggs, Sonita Alleyne, Maggie Carver, Joanne Shaw and Jonathan Teckham. Patrick Swaffer is the President of BBFC

and has two Vice Presidents who are Alison Hastings and Gerard Lemos who together makes sure the classification of  a film works under the Video Recordings Act 1984. There is many people who are part of the management team such as the director who is David Cooke. The director makes executive decisions on behalf of the Presidents and Vice Presidents. He also ensures the carrying out of the policy and management of the BBFC is right and handles relations with the industry, the public etc.

In deciding what certificate rating to give a film it is to protect children from watching unsuitable films/scenes. The BBFC rate films an age which they feel is suitable going by the classification guidelines which are: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202014_6.pdf

The process of rating is for a senior examiner and a examiner to watch the film all the way though and to note down any issues such  as discuimination, drugs, horror, dangerous, language, nudity, sex and violence. Depending on how much content of each or any of the issues following the classification guidelines they decide on what rating. However an examiner has to get comfimation from an senior examiner who sometimes in difficult situation may have to contact the presidents to have a final decision on the rating. The legal considerations of BBFC are:

·         Human Rights Act 1988

·         The Licensing Act 2003

·          The Video Recordings Act 1984

·          The Obscene Publications Act 1959 & 1964

·          Criminal Justice and  Immigration Act 2008

·         The Protection of Children 1978

·         The sexual Offences Act 2003

·         The Public Order Act 1986

·         The Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937

·         The Animal Welfare Act 2006

·         The Tobacco Advertising Act and Promotion Act 2002

For the film Coraline it was rated PG. BBFC found there was a creepiness atmosphere thought the film with the buttons as eyes and the boy being a body of rats. However there were many parts of the film which didn’t make it so scary with the comedy, dancing mice strange amusing neighbours. Also with Caroline she was presented as brave and manages to get herself out of tricky situations and mot only herself but her real parents too. But the reason why it was not a U is due to some of the scares being from people/places such as their parents and their home. However throughout the film it was reassuring a happy ending.

 

Ideas Feedback

 Here is my feedback sheet with my three ideas for my animation. The feedback was really helpful, for example with my second idea, my feedback is busy so I will cut down a little to make it more simplier and easy to follow. I got feedback of unrealistic twice which I was happy about because that is my aim to create a animation that is unrealistic.

With all my feedback I have decided I am going to do my third idea because I got good feed back like 'out of the ordinary'. I also like my third idea the most out of all because I find the story more interesting.

30 Rock

History of GIF'S

GIF's have many strengths and weaknesses such as:
Strengths
-Solid colour images
-Enjoyable
-Images with irregular boundaries'
-Short but lasts forever
-Makes photograph look alive
-Images needing transparency
-Plays automatically
-Animation

Weaknesses
-Limited colour depth
-Animated image can large

Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader do GIF's in fashion and have created many GIF's such as:

1. Pink



This GIF is taking fashion to another level, making it more fun and entertaining to see. I really like with Pink is that they made two photos move and join up as one picture. Also it is simple but makes a big statement with the contrasting colours of pink.

2. Dubstep Dinosaurs


I really like Dubstep Dinosaurs because music is added to the GIF so it isn't just silent which makes it more engaging to watch. Also it is very different from other GIF's with having the dinosaurs heads and costumes. This is making fashion even more fun and entertaining.

3. Green



Green is rather like Pink but what I like about this GIF that Pink doesn't have is the animated grass and flowers. I like that it gives a nature background going with the name Green.

I think GIF's are photos of the future. They bring any photo to life and can bring back many memories for someone. I feel it makes photography more fun and interesting. Even moving the littlest of things in a photo can make a massive impact on it. I think it would be great if GIF's were able to be created on phones so even the littlest photographs of daily things can bring back memories.

Shapes in Character Design

Character Design

"Character design is the combination of physical traits and (narrative)."

Narrative/ storyline defines personality, gives context (genre, location, setting) therefore has to feed into look and design of the character. The face is the primary channel to express emotion (a reason for the many large headed characters!). A lot can be said with posture and body languages. This allows for personality traits to be identifiable in silhouette.

Solarski states how a character carries their physical weight can tell us about their personality, which body part they can lead with is important. For example Solarski thinks a hero who leads with their chest is strong. such as: Super Man

 If a character leads with their pelvis they are laid back/lazy.  Such as: Goofy

If a character leads with their head they are intelligent.  Such as Shaggy

Finally knees represents cowardly. Such as Timmy

Cuddy states power and dominance reduces around expanding power. For example making the character small leading to weakness taking less space up. In contrast to a big character taking up big space.