Preliminary Task

In groups of no more than four produce a continuity task involving filming and editing a character 'opening a door, crossing the room, sitting in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue'. 

This task must demonstrate -

• Match On Action
• Shot/Reverse Shot
• 180 Degree Rule   

Film Ratings

All films published into the U.K must go through the process of a 'film rating' which is undertaken by the BBFC (British Board Of Film Classification). The BBFC is a non-governmental independent body which has published ratings on originally cinematic productions following into video and since the year of 1985 publishing ratings onto DVD's. The purpose behind the rating of films and the BBFC's core aim is to protect audience members of all ages creating barriers of protection for younger audiences against films with a high content of themes of a sexual nature, violence, drug abuse etc. It is also popularly used for parental guidance with responsible adults for children to consider the suitability and whether or not the allowance for the young person to view the media text or not.



The above presents the ratings the BBFC categorise films into, whereby the rating of 'U' meaning suitable for all ages through up to the rating of '18' meaning a film suitable only for ages including and above the age of eighteen. Films published in the UK by law will have their rating published on the front cover.

                       

The Three Act Structure

The three act structure is considered to be the formation of modern story and script writing development and is also used to analysis these modern narratives. The first of these act structures introduces the 'incident' in which a disturbance or problematic cause is brought into the storyline. The second of these three act structures comes the 'confrontation' within the midpoint of the storyline. Finally the third of these act structures introduces the climax in which a 'resolution' is produced.