Initial ideas

What classification will you use and why?

We are making a PG film, the target audience will then be broader meaning we can include a more complicated story line. There will be more option of plots and character types.

Will you use live action or animation or why?

We are using live action as we are doing film inside college. If we did animation, we would have to create the settings and characters outside of college this would take up a lot of time. I-stop animation may also take up a lot of time, leaving us little time to edit or correct any problems we may have.

What is the outline of your story? What is the moral?

Planet A wants to take over Planet B, they then fight to save their planet and come to an agreement that they should be happy with what they have and planet B wins for being the better aliens.
The moral of the story is to not take what you have for granted, and is about how greed is bad.

What role will each group member have?

We will all be acting in the film. We will be aliens, two from planet A and two from planet B.

We are all going to be filming parts of the movie. Props and costume, Charné. Editor, Ashley and Charné. Sound, Ben. Director, Samanda. Script, Samamda.

BABE

Babe:
This children's film should not be classed as a universal because it contains some violent and upsetting scenes that may be irrelevant for the younger ones to watch i.e when the dog gets hung over a river , animals start to get aggressive and blood is shown.  These type of images are not suitable for children around the age of 5 as they wont understand whats happening and can influence their behaviour towards others allowing them to think that animal cruelty is ok.

Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal is controversial as when it was released it was a PG despite the dark tones and the Skeksis, the evil creatures,  who are very creepy and quite disgusting.  The film also shows death, destruction and deceit, because of this it is very controversial to be a PG and still be that dark.

Definition of children's film

Definition of a children's film 'no special effort is made to make the film appeal to different audiences
- does this still appeal today?

children under the age of 12:
teenagers have different interests.
U certificate: universal
suitable for all over the age of 5
film must have a positive moral framework
offer re-asuring counter balancing to any threat/horror
suitable for children to view alone
no bad language or discrimination
no drugs
no emphasis on real or accessible weapons
no sexual content- only love


PG- parental guidance if their kids can handle it-
they have to consider if its suitable
- discrimination but only for educational purposes
- horror shot but no intense
- more grown up themes
e.g domestic violence strongly portrayed as negative

Mr. Bean

Mr. Bean.

Mr. Bean is represented as an irresponsible adult by his actions which are emphasised by his lack of speech which even when used is pronounced in a comedic fashion, this makes him appealing to children as it implies that they don't have to grow up ever and no matter what situation they get themselves into they will always be able to get out of.

The clip shows a very typical Mr. Bean scene which shows him making a new serving hatch during the clip Mr. Bean is shown pretending the drill is a gun and also not properly planning things. Children can relate to this as they have active imaginations and tend to rush haphazardly into things instead of properly planning. There is very little music during the clip as most of the sound is a laughter track, there is also no dialogue during the clip which allows a wider audience to enjoy the clip. 

Toy Story 3

The opening of Toy Story 3 fits the conventions of a children's film by having quite a lot of action and also by having each character have some kind of super power and it being unrealistic which reflects the genre which is fantasy. This reflects the fact that the whole story is being seen from a child's perspective and is generated through a child's imagination which allows for the amount of creativity seen. the opening also links back to Toy Story's opening which has the same plot, but doesn't include the characters which were picked up in Toy Story 2, but the Toy Story opening shows what is actually happening instead of through Andy's imagination.

A link to the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKA2xaqSTVc&feature=related

Sci-fi genre

Planet 51



Planet 51 follows conventions of sci-fi through many means, such as the content of Aliens, outer space, visiting new planets etc although it has a new take on the conventions as the aliens are being visited by a human, which makes is contrasting as the human is classed as the alien.

In the opening sequence of the film, the genre is made clear straight away as the aliens are introduced first. This is different from the stereotypical sci-fi film because usually the humans are introduced first because