BBFC & My Film

Discrimination

During my film there is no content which I find to be discriminatory towards race, gender, religion, sexuality or those with disabilities. Most of this lack of discrimination comes naturally. However, I did put in a certain level of effort to avoid any kind of material that falls into that category.

Drugs

There is no content within my film that links to or references drug or alcohol use. There is an instance within my film however that involves the use of lighter to start a fire to keep warm. This may therefore be considered a reference to smoking.

Horror

There are some elements of horror within my film. However these moments aren't scary on a level that makes them unsuitable to any age range. The horror content within my movie is conveyed more through the emotions of the characters and how they behave rather than have something within the film to generate that fear.

Imitable behaviour

As with discrimination, I tried my best to avoid any kind of imitable behaviour. However some is inevitable. However what is in there is minor and unlikely to be of huge concern. The most dangerous form of imitable behaviour in my film would be starting the fire the characters use to keep warm or the characters walking in the middle of the road.

Language

Within my film's genre bad language of some form is almost guaranteed. I tried to limit this not necessarily in terms of how bad a word used is seen but more how often those words are used. So instead of saying to my actors, don't say anything worse than crap, I said to them, try to limit how much bad language you use. There isn't much swearing in my film but there is some. There is also an instance of language that some Christians may find offensive. This is where one character says "for gods sake" when the fire goes out. However I felt this was appropriate given the context in which it was used.

Nudity

Nudity isn't an issue I feel I have to deal with in relation to my film as there are no instances of nudity within my film. There wasn't any planned and if any was this would have been hard to do safely with the temperature and weather conditions at the time of filming.

Sex

In terms of sex, this is similar to nudity in that there is none in my film and therefore, isn't an issue I have to deal with.

Violence

Violence may be an issue within my film due the genre. Most zombie films have a lot of violent scenes, mainly consisting of humans "killing" zombies. My film is slightly different. My film is unique in the way that it is a zombie film where you never see a zombie. Because of this although there are scenes within my film that involve the use of guns, the effects of their use are never shown. Due to the nature though, it can be presumed that the guns are being used to kill off-screen enemies and are therefore are being used for violent purposes.

After reading through the BBFC guidelines for each category and putting them against the analysis I think my film would be classified as a 12/12A. There is the possibility that it may be classified as a 15 based on the use f certain shots however a 12/12A is more likely

Shooting schedule

Shooting Schedule:                                     Group: Tom Easden                         Film: SURVIVING Day/Date	Scene	Int/Ext Day/Night	Shot Description/Summary	Location	Characters	Props/Equipment
Shoot Day 1
	Opening/establishing shot	EXT Day	Shot looking up at a wooden watch tower in the woods	Willingham woods	No one	None
	Close up	INT Day	Close up of each main character in turn	Willingham woods	Lewis and Pete	None
	Close up	INT Day	Close up on Lewis’ hand to show gun (loading gun)	Willingham woods	Lewis	Gun (fake) for Lewis
	Close up	INT Day	Close up on small fire as wind blows.	Willingham woods	No one	Matches Something to extinguish fire
	Low angle shot	INT Day	Low angle shot looking up at Pete as he keeps a look out	Willingham woods	Pete	Gun (fake)
	High angle shot	INT Day	High angle shot looking down on Lewis as he “sleeps”	Willingham woods	Lewis	None
	Close up	INT Day	Close up on lit fire with main characters’ hands at edge of shot above fire	Willingham woods	Lewis and Petes hand’s	matches something to extinguish fire
	Low angle shot	INT Day	Low angle shot looking up at Lewis as he keeps a look out	Willingham woods	Lewis	Gun (fake)
	High angle shot	INT Day	High angle shot looking down on Pete as he “sleeps”	Willingham woods	Pete	None
Shoot Day 2
	Wide shot	EXT Day	Shot of trees rocking in the wind	Willingham woods	No one	None
	Wide shot/zoom	EXT Day	Wide shot showing both main characters walking side by side down a woodland path	Willingham woods	Lewis and Pete	Gun (fake) (in Lewis’ hand for continuity)
	Hand held	EXT Day	Shot of two main characters walking, shot from behind.	Willingham woods	Lewis and Pete	Gun (fake) (in Lewis’ hand for continuity)
	Wide shot / low angle	EXT Day	Shot of two characters walking, shot from a low angle looking up slightly from down a path as they walk past on a different path	Willingham woods	Lewis and Pete	Gun (fake) (in Lewis’ hand for continuity)
	Wide shot	EXT Evening	Shot of a sunset with a few trees in the foreground but not many.	Edge of Willingham woods	No one	None
	Wide shot	EXT Evening	Shot of two main characters stood side by side looking at the sunset	Edge of Willingham woods	Lewis and Pete	None
	Moving shot	EXT Night	Shot of two main characters walking down a empty road. Camera next to them moving at same speed	Empty road	Lewis and Pete	None

remake

As my deadline drew nearer my actors started to become more and more unreliable. Because of this I have had to call on a fellow media student and friend who helped me write a new script with a new story and film it. If the opportunity arises I will film some more of the original film and maybe edit both, then see which is better. But mostly I will now focus on the new film.