Film Analysis ; Classification

For a film to be awarded a rating of PG, it can feature violent and intense scenes however they cannot be accompanied by gore. There can also be mild use of light profanity.

For a film to be awarded a rating of 12, it can feature violent and intense scenes that can contain more gore than a PG film can. This age rating also allows for some sexual references and a mild use of profanity.

For a film to be awarded a rating of 15, it can feature hard violence and intense scenes accompanied by gore. This age rating allows for a strong use of profanity and some mild sexual scenes.

For a film to be awarded a rating of 18, it can feature extreme violence and intense scenes with a lot of gore. This age rating also allows for an extreme use of profanity and sexual scenes.

I believe that the age rating best suited for our production is a 12. This is because we don't feel we need all the things that are available at a higher age rating to make a quality production. Also, movies with this age rating (i.e The Sixth Sense) tend to do better at the box office and become more successful than films with a higher or lower age rating. This could be due to the fact that it is available to more people than higher ratings given by film companies

Narrative theories textual analysis: Vladmir Propp

A recent film that fits into Vladmir Propps narrative theory is Kingsman; The Secret Service.

• This films hero is Eggsy; Who trades his life of causing trouble for the police to be a super secret spy. 
• The princess is his mother and sister because they are what motivated him to make the change so that he could protect them. 
• The role of donor is taken by a character called Merlin. He is the gadget guy for Kingsman and supplies Eggsy with what he needs to take down the villain. 
• The Helper is Roxy, a cadet; like Eggsy; who helps in taking down the villain. 
• The Dispatcher is Harry Hart, a fully established gentleman spy working for Kingsman who finds Eggsy and decides to train him. 
• The false hero is Arthur, he is the leader of Kingsman until he is persuaded by the villain to betray them.
• The villain is  Richmond Valentine, a billionaire philanthropist who wants to destroy the world

An older film that fits into Vladmir Propps narrative theory is The Italian Job (1969).

• The hero of this film is Charlie Croker; a cockney thief who has just been released from prison and who wants to do a big job to get rich quick.
• The Princess of this story is the $4 million that he wants to steal.
• The donor is Mr. Bridger who is a crime lord stuck in prison who financially backs Charlie plans.
• The Helper was Freddie who would assist Charlie in every part of the planned heist.
• The dispatcher is Mrs Beckermann, a widow who lost her husband to the mafia because they wanted to do the job.
• The False Hero is "Big" William because he causes the bus with the stolen gold to pivot out of control and hang of the side of a cliff.
• The villains are the mafia because they want the gold as well but they go to a higher extreme to get it.

Character profiles (Batman Returns)

The Joker

The Joker is a supervillain and the archenemy of Batman. He was first introduced in the first Batman and has remained consistently popular. The Joker is a master criminal with a clown-like appearance. Initially portrayed as a violent sociopath who murders people for his own amusement, the Joker later in the 1940s began to be written as a goofy trickster-thief

Costumes Ideas

I Chose this costume idea from the film The Purge because they dress very casual but they are probably one of the scariest characters in Thriller Movies, they used the idea of Professionalism from the suits and then turned it into something quite scary, the masks also had a touch to know that they are coming from an unknown society

                                                                       Roland Barthes was born on the 12^th November 1915 and died at the age of the 25^th March 1980. He was a French literary theorist, philosopher and a Critic. Roland Barthes describes a text as “a galaxy of signifiers” not a structure of signified; it has n beginning; it is reversible; we gain  access to it by several entrances, none of which can be authoritatively declared to be the main one; the codes it mobilizes extend as far as the eye can read, they are interminable, the systems of meaning can take over this absolutely plural text.

                       Mise En Scene

Setting- The setting is a very important element to a Psychological thriller, the two most common locations for Psychological thriller to be set in the city and inside a building, e.g. a house jail restaurant. The countryside isn’t as commonly used as it can get confused with a horror film.