Casino Royale Opening Credits.

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These are the opening film stills for Casino Royale

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Questionaire

What’s your favourite genre? (Circle answer)

· Horror

· Comedy

· Romantic

· Action

What’s your favourite film? (Write Below)

Do you like your opening scene to...? (Circle answer)

· Give great detail into characters

· Start a dramatic event (death, action or fight)

· Slow build up to a main event in the film

· Show a event then go back in time to see the build up of the event

· Set scene

Age (so we know our target audience- write below)?

Are you male or female? (so we know our target audience - write below)

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Ratings

 Suitable for all

It is impossible to predict what might upset any particular child. But a ‘U’ film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over. ‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.
Parental Guidance

General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.
Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

Suitable for 12 years and over

Exactly the same criteria are used to classify works at ‘12A’ and ‘12’. These categories are awarded where the material is suitable, in general, only for those aged 12 and over. Works classified at these categories may upset children under 12 or contain material which many parents will find unsuitable for them.

Suitable only for 15 years or over

No-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

Suitable only for adults

No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video work.

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.

Cinema
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.Statutory powers on film remain with the local councils, which may overrule any of the BBFC’s decisions, banning films we have passed, passing films we reject, and even waiving cuts, instituting new ones, or altering categories for films exhibited under their own licensing jurisdiction.

Video
In 1984 Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act. This act stated that, subject to certain exemptions, video recordings offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the Secretary of State. The President and Vice Presidents of the BBFC were so designated, and charged with applying the new test of ‘suitability for viewing in the home’. At this point the Board’s title was changed to the British Board of Film Classification to reflect the fact that classification plays a far larger part in the BBFC’s work than censorship.

Finances
The BBFC is a not for profit organisation, and its fees are adjusted only as required to cover its costs. In order to preserve its independence, the BBFC has never received subsidies from either the film industry or the government. Its income is derived solely from the fees it charges for its services, calculated by measuring the running time of films or DVDs submitted for classification. The tariff must be approved by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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Mean Girls
The opening scene of mean girls shows a girl who used to be home schooled moving to a high school. It starts off with her parents talking to her, looking down at her. They show this in a two person shot. It then does an over the shoulder shot of her standing up. The camera movement throughout the opening scene is mostly panning.

The Hangover
The film opening to the hangover starts off with showing us the wedding venue and the bride worrying about where her husband to be is. The opening the goes onto a Close-up of a man on the phone, the man says the Bachelor party got out of the control and they 'F***ed up' and lost the man who is due to be getting married. He then says the wedding will probably not happen. The titles then start and it makes you want to carry on watching in suspence to know what happened that may make the wedding not happen, and where the lost man actually is.

Step-brothers
The opening sequence of 'Step-brothers' shows a women and her son at home, and then a man and his son at home. It then cuts to the man and women meeting in what seems to be a work conference. I think this is shown to show the two families coming together which makes the viewer want to keep watching to find out what will happen.

Codes and conventions in Media

The codes and conventions in media can be separated into 3 distinct groups -
- Technical (camera techniques & shots),
- Symbolic (ie clothing, colours)
- Written and audio (music etc).
These give the text meaning and determine the response of the viewer. They can be used as a basis for simple text analysis. So in order to compose any work related to media you should con

Codes and Conventions: the familiar and predictable forms and techniques used by the media to convey a desired impression. Codes include the special devices of an individual media, such as camera angles, lighting, special effects. Conventions are the typical plot elements including conflicts and resolutions of a particular medium.