Evaluation

Billionaire Boy - opening scene

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 since the passing of the Video Recordings Act in 1984. The guidelines are updated every four years and the current version was published June 2013.

In the creation of a film rating, the BBFC consider the following areas:

Discrimination

Drugs

Horror

Imitable behaviour

Language

Nudity

Sex

Theme

Violence

Our film

Taking into consideration the above information, which includes the areas considered in creating a film rating I would say that our film would be rated as a 15. This is because our film does include strong language, along with violence. Our film will also deal with mature themes, such as poverty, along with more sensitive themes such as racism, gang culture and stereotypes.

Whilst creating our film we hadn't really taken into consideration of our film rating as I believe if we had, it could have limited our creativity. As we are four teenage boys who live in South London, most of the things we  incorporated in our film  are issues we have personally seen or dealt with; issues which are definitely not suitable for the rating of 'U' or 'PG'. I do feel though that rating the film a '15' is consistent with our policy of only including things that are relatable to us. We wouldn't be able to include things that would make the film an '18' due to the sheer fact that if the film was an '18' we wouldn't even be able to watch our own film!

 Also our film could have been a '12' or a '12A' but we felt that as 16 and 17 year old teens, a '12' rated film wasn't applicable to the position we are in in our lives currently. In addition to that, what I have learnt is that a film rating is more important to a film than I had first thought. The film rating does limit the revenue collected from the making of a film as the people watching (the audience) are the people generating the revenue; so the age rating in turn produces your available audience.

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Pitch

 Pitch

Logline/Treatment : 8/10

I was pleased with this score because as I was the one who created the film; this score confirms that the film has a solid storyline and that my analysis/ description of the film is good. Again this was emphasised through the comment of "Nice treatment description".

Language : 7/10

This was a decent score as I felt going into the pitch that it was our weakest area. The feedback consisted of " Good use of theory, including corrective stereotype... Focus a little more on Todorov". I agree with the comments as I feel we could have incorporated more of Todorov's theory of Equilibrium to further prove our understanding of language and concepts within film.

Audience : 7/10

I thought we had covered our audience quite well. Making sure it would be suitable for a range of people of ages and most importantly, those from different ethnic and class backgrounds which we incorporated within our film and pitch in order to appeal to them. However it was our lack of focus on a more straightforward area - age rating. "BBFC classification - can you work within 15 restrictions?". This emphasises our lack of clarity and depth into this aspect.

Representation : 9/10

This along with the Production/Industry were the areas which secured the B grade for the group. This specifically was a very impressive score that we were all pleased with. It quite possibly could've been a 10/10 if we had been "specific about [our] characters".

Production/Industry : 9/10

This for me was the most impressive score of the whole project and possibly the whole course. This is because this area was all down to us without a guideline of how to talk about or to describe it. This was down to our collective research as a group and as the score showed it tells us that by ourselves we are able to do well.

Presentation : 2/10

"A bit too much focus on characters, got a little boring in the middle". The score along with the comments means it's needless to say this was the most disappointing aspect of the whole pitch and quite possibly was the part which limited us from getting closer to the A grade.


Overall comments and grade:
"The most encouraging part of this pitch is how achievable the idea is - well done. It has been clearly thought through. I worry though that the pitch was the work of an individual, not a group".

42/60. B

Location Scouting

                                           
                                  
        
           

This is the quiet side road in which the scene starts. The reason for this is because it's a journey we take often to and from school; just a natural setting which we are comfortable in.

This road is the road leading up to our school which is just a long straight with not many barriers for our running scene. Again it is also near our school and somewhere we have often walked.

This is the smaller gate that we will decide to jump over. We felt that an action scene with jumping would add an extra angle to the film.. This is also on school property and is much smaller which is why we decided to pick this gate to jump.

This is the car park we planned on running through. However with consideration on the difficulty and access of it; along with the safety hazard we decided against jumping this fence.

Shot List

 

Scene	Shot	Type	Description	Done?
1	EST		Establishing shot of the road (our location)	o
2	P	WTR	Panning shot of the common, slowly moving from left to right	o
3	POV	NOD	Introduction of Frederico through a Myles point of view shot. The nodding will involve relational editing	o
4	2S	MS	Characters walking, talking and messing around	o
5	2S	MS	While showing both characters speaking, Myles phone rings	o
6	IS	ECU	Extreme close up of Myles’ ringing phone in his hand	o
7	CU		Close up on Myles’ reaction to unknown number	o
8	ELS	CA/ POV	Shouting of Myles’ & Frederico’s name causes them to turn around. They see a group of boys in the far distance	o
9	ECU		Extreme close up of Myles’ face reaction	o
10	ECU		Extreme close up of Frederico’s face reaction	o
11	LAS		*Camera drops to the ground* It captures Myles & Frederico sprinting off	o
12	POV		Filming of Myles and/or Frederico running	o
13	LA	CU	Camera films only our feet running, while shouts are heard in the background	o
14	LA	MS 2S	Shot of Myles & Frederico climbing a gate	o
15	OSS		Over the shoulder shot of the unknown chasers shouting at Myles & Frederico through the gate.	o
16	CI	CU	Cut in shot of a school caretaker shouting at the chasers	o
17			*NEXT SCENE*	o
18	2S		Both boys filmed sitting next to each other gasping for breath	o
19	CU		Myles confiding in Frederico	o
20	CU		Frederico confiding in Myles	o
21	2S	HA	Continuity editing and accelerating time is used, while titles come across the screen as the scene ends	o

Shot ‘Type’ Glossary

EST	Establishing Shot Usually extremely wide, and sets the location/setting for the scene.
ELS	Extreme Long-Shot Subject is visible, placing them in their setting. Between EST and LS.
LS	Long-Shot Subject takes up all or nearly all of the full height of the frame.
MS	Mid-Shot Shows some part of the subject in detail whilst giving an impression of the rest of the subject.
MCU	Medium Close-Up Halfway between the MS and CU.
CU	Close-Up A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the entire frame.
ECU	Extreme Close-Up Shot getting much closer to a subject to show more detail.
HA	High Angle Camera in a high location, looking down.
LA	Low Angle Camera in a low location, looking up.
CA	Cutaway A shot of something other than the current action.
CI	Cut-In Shows some part of the subject in detail. Interview.
2S	Two-Shot Shot of two people at once, comfortably framed in a mid-shot.
OSS	Over-the-Shoulder Shot Looking from behind one person to the subject.
POV	Point-of-View Shot Shot from the subject’s perspective.
NOD	Noddy Shot Usually refers to a reverse shot on an interviewing nodding or otherwise responding to a subject.
WTR	Weather Shot The subject is the weather.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard which has taken lots of alterations, as you may be able to see by the rubbing out marks! Initially we found it somewhat hard to include every bit of our film opening in the storyboard, but once we singled out the most important parts, we found it much easier to put our idea to paper and this is what you see here. The first real piece of illustration of Billionaire Boy.

Risk Assessment

Hazards	Who Exposed	Risk	Control Measure
Slipping	Actor/Staff	Severe Injuries (Fractures etc.)	Filming on certain days when the weather is deemed fit or taking caution when filming by watching where we step.
Filming near busy roads	Actors/Staff/Pedestrians	Car Crashes, Fractured ribs, Death etc.	Filming when traffic is quiet or re writing scenes where no roads are used in the scene
Pots/Holes/Cobbles	Actors/Staff/Pedestrians	Fractured bones/Bruises etc.	Assessing the ground before filming for scenes
Equipment being taken or stolen	Staff	No equipment to film with like the camera	Keeping the camera on our person at all times
Falling or barging over/into pedestrians	Pedestrians/Staff/Actors	Legal repercussions and bruises etc.	Legal repercussions and bruises etc.
Rain damaging the equipment	Staff	No equipment to film with and very unlikely but possible electrocution	Filming on days when no rain is forecast.