Woman in Black racked in 134 complaints over wrong certification!

After researching a little deeper I came across a little case-study centred around our number one inspiration - The Woman In Black.
Personally I was shocked to find the bbfc had rated the woman in black a 12A, especially after I had witnessed the movie myself. Evidently 134 other people had a similar reaction! The bbfc was required to increase the rating up to a 15 and review its 'horror rules'

This is a clear consequence of grading a film the wrong certification, which shows its's extremely important to accurately label a film and not just based it on the 'criteria' that the film itself would meet, but also the short-term and long-term affect it will have on the audience allowed to watch the material.

Here's the link to the article, but I've screen-shotted an extract for quick readers.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/13/bbfc-rewrite-horror-rules-woman-black-complaint-gore-sexualisation

Ceritificate 18?

The group had previously discussed what certificate we would grant appropriate, we all had agreed the decision would most likely be between a 12/12A or a 15, we felt that our movie would't live up to the over excessive 'gore' that most 18s acquire.

A popular 18 horror film is 'The nightmare on elm street.' Both the 1984 and the 2014 version. The direct use of blood, guts and expletives suggest a clear division to our movie opening. (I mean even the picture makes me want to hurl.)

So what one?

During our brainstorming session we immediately ruled out the rating U and PG as our content would be extremely inappropriate for those younger audiences. So we were left to choose between 12/12A, 15 or an 18.

12/12A

Many movies are rated 12 and 12A's, one being my all time favourite 'The Others,' however movies that hold this rating are often limited to the sinister absence they can empower.

15

Films with a higher rating of a 15 are able to express 'strong threat and 'horror' more directly. Many of our film inspirations obtain a certificate of 15 for example 'Annabelle' and 'The Woman in Black' These movies all hold the blood curdling atmosphere we feel the content of our film would have held (if we had continued to make it) 

Certificate for our film.

So now our group must decide on our movies age certificate!

We've done a little research on the British Board of Film classification website in order to accurately label our movie.

Many of our inspirations are rated as a 15 but there are many varieties in different films.

Evaluation; dun dun dunnnnnnnnn

So now the film is completed and uploaded, it is time for the evaluation! 

The group is currently browsing through previous evaluations to inspire us and just building a platform to how we must answer them. 

Here are our the questions we must answer. 

Beggars Hollow - Final

So voila! Below is our final draft of Beggars Hollow ( Yes, we all finally agreed on a name)
We made very minor adjustments since the fifth draft.
After it was showed to Ms Foster she told us to adjust the font sizes of the title as she felt the title was too similar to the credits.

Also to just fad in and adjust some of our sound, for instance we decided to fade out the drone audio during the opening title montage as the cut to silence didn't hold a significant impact, as well as this it was necessary to cut down the swing shot of Keeley from behind in order to match up perfectly with the audio, this avoided any disruption to the perfect match ups later on it the film.

Lastly we have cut 'ripple productions' as Ms Foster noticed it was extremely similar to our 'river in reverse' shown just a few seconds later. The group discussed and agreed that the one production company would do, which saved us finding a second!
So now our production company just reads 'Ludio Studios.'

5th (and hopefully the last) draft.

We were advised not to include our previous production company 'Bonnie Productions' with the shot of Bonnie the dog due to the implications it caused to some viewers as they were confused by the use of the same doll,dog and actress.

So as a replacement we included footage of some ripples that we thought would look cool in reverse that we ended up never using as we used the river in reverse instead. Added onto the shot was 'Ripple productions' with the same transition as the previous production title. Additionally we included a little jingle to lighten the mood, from Epidemic.com we downloaded 'Water ripples' which was an upbeat melody with the collocation of flowing water, as well as some bubble gurgles for the sound effect.