Ratings

To establish what kind of rating to give our film i've looked at criteria for allocating specific ratings from official and reliable websites to make sure the rating i think best fits my film is more realistic and trustworthy.

http://www.bbfc.com/

Also i have researched into the age certificates given to other popular romance films to compare, as our rating would probably be of a similar scope.

Titanic - 12

The Notebook - 15

P.s I Love You - 12a

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/downloads/pub/Guidelines/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202009.pdf

This is a link from the British Board of Film Classification website which looks at age certificates in more detail. looking at which, i feel a label of 15 would be most suitable for our film as strong language may be used throughout the rest of the film as with the use of such language, it makes it more realistic and loyal to the portrayal of adults who are likely to use such words in every day life; in an arguement to express aggression, or even to express intense enjoyment.

Also it is likely for our film to include sexual content or contain verbal references to it as our genre is romance, so this may be a prominant feature which occurs between the married couple at some point in our film.

The element of violence in the beginning suggests that further violence may also be featured within the film to uncover the more sinister aspect to our storyline, though we would not be yet able to specifiy the level of violence used, it would be safer to give it a higher rating just in case we would decide to elaborate on the tragedy within our romance film.

Wedding Scene

We filmed for the wedding scene a few weeks back, and have now fully completed editing and applied the appropriate music by Josh Woodward - No Letting Go.

We have selected the chorus part of the music to be playing over this scene as the tune is slow and melodic, reflecting the mood we want to create, and also lyrics coinside with the female character's feelings of grief dealing with the death of her husband. i think that this choice of music played over the remeniscent scene's of their wedding might help to evoke emoition within the audience as they empathise with how the character is feeling.

I feel that this scene was key as it needed to have most impact on the audience. at first, the audience has no connection with either of the characters who are both in predicaments of unhappiness, and so they sympathise, but cannot show empathy for them. therefore i think that this scene is relied upon to begin to build up an idea of their relationship as a couple - appearing in love and smitten, allowing the audience to finally recognise the damage caused from the first scene, then link it to the second scene where after his death, she is crying and alone. and will be able to relate to the female character on a deeper level.
I think with the combination of appropriate music, it does so more effectively.

the dramatic contrast between the first two scene's where the two characters are seperated, alone, and in situations of distress to the final scene of the opening where they are happy and together also helps to have more impact on the audience in terms of how they recieve it. also, the pace alters through out each scene so far thus making it more interesting to view.

We also decided that the use of extras for this scene was not neccessary. at first we intended to have a crowd surrounding the happy couple to represent friends and family, but, for convinience and to create a more intimate setting, we decided to only show the two of them together, and have them laughing and joking with us behind the scene to give the appearence of them conversing with the guests, but still maintain the idea of closeness.

In addition, we added an effect onto these scene shots which gives it an aged appearence. the camera movement is somewhat unsteady as to give the idea it is handheld and being filmed by a guest at their wedding. the effect is also like a recording, and so reinforced the notion that is was filmed by someone - we are thinking about getting some sort of time-stamp and "rec" sign often assosciated with handheld video camera to emphasise this. the aged appearence to it also suggests that the audience are looking back on a past time.