My client is Deer Shed who is hosting a festival, this means that there will mostly be preteens kids and families my target audience is going to be between the ages for 13-15. My project includes some violence ill be looking into the laws of pg horror/experiential videos.
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what does the different classifications mean?
G: General Audiences, All Ages Admitted. This film is suitable for all audiences, regardless of age. There is no explicit content that could offend parents whose children are younger. It’s important to note that a “G” rating doesn’t mean a movie is for children or appropriate for their viewing.
PG: Parental Guidance Suggested, Some Material May Not Be Suitable for Children. This means parental guidance is suggested, as some material may be unsuitable for children. Parents should watch the film with their children to get a better understanding of what it is about. Some content, like language or violence, may be present, but it’s not so intense that it would be inappropriate for children. Remember that the content of each movie will vary, so please check the movie rating before viewing.
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned, Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Children Under 13. This mans parents should strongly caution their children about some of the content in this movie. Some of it may be inappropriate for children under 13. This rating is for parents who want to be cautious about the content in this app. It may not be appropriate for children under 13. This may include stricter language, increased violence or sexual situations and drug use. Remember, the content of a movie can vary depending on the rating it receives. So be sure to check the specific rating for the film you are researching.
R: Restricted, Children Under 17 Require Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardia. This mans with regards to children under the age of seventeen, they must have an accompanying parent or adult guardian to ensure their safety. This rating means that the film contains adult materials such as adult activity, hard language, severe graphic violence, drug abuse and nude. Most theatres have their own policies with respect to masked films R, some of which include checking the digital data of those looking under the age of 17 purchase tickets, allowing only parents to buy tickets and accompany those under the age of 17 in the film, or simply stating that they should be an adult (not necessarily one of the parents) guardian and a guard to buy tickets and accompany those under the age of 17 all the time. Check with your theater to find out what policies and guidelines they have for parents with regards to what their children are allowed to watch.
NC-17: No One 17 and Under Admitted. This means the attraction is not suitable for anyone under the age of 17. These movies are geared towards adults and are not appropriate for children. The rating does not imply that the content is obscene or pornographic, but that it is only appropriate for adult audiences.
Moyses, K. (2017). What do movie ratings mean? [online] MSU Extension. Available at: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/what_do_movie_ratings_mean.
Since my experimental music video does include violence but my camera is placing doesn’t show what’s happening nor does it include any blood I think my music video is either a G pg or a PG that still may need guidance, this is because I music video does have violence however it isn’t really shown.
What is a experimental video?
Experimental film is difficult to define, not because its guidelines are so abstract or even esoteric, but because it is such a broad genre that defining it almost defeats its purpose. In one sense, it refers to anything that defies traditional narrative and documentary filmmaking conventions. It is not required to tell a story. Characters are not required. There doesn’t even have to be a message of any kind. It can be visceral or mundane, engaging or boring. It can be deeply personal or blatantly political. It could literally be anything.
No Film School. (2013). Experimental Filmmaking for Dummies (Part 1): Why You Should Be Making Experimental Films. [online] Available at: https://nofilmschool.com/2013/11/experimental-filmmaking-for-dummies-part-1.
I needed some inspiration for this project, so I started looking up experimental videos, and these are my top three practitioners who had a significant influence on my experimental music video.
Kenneth Macpherson:
The films of Macpherson are best described as “presenting contentious issues through avant-garde experimental filmmaking techniques that represent emotional and psychological states of the human mind.” Macpherson’s genius lies in his ability to capture small movements as nuanced, meaning-producing gestures. Macpherson was heavily influenced by Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein, whom he first met in 1929.
Wikipedia. (2021). Kenneth Macpherson. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Macpherson [Accessed 7 May 2022].
Popy
Poppy is one of the biggest experimental musical artist out there. She has created different creepy videos and have gotten the medias attention multiple times. She is one of the biggest influence I have on my work, theres this specific music video she created named voicemail where she has black eyes and i instantly fell in love with that idea.
Malcolm Le Grice:
He created a number of experimental short films that have received awards at film festivals all around the world. Gallivant, his first feature film, was a road/home movie about his grandmother Gladys and daughter Eden’s four-month journey around the UK coast. At the Edinburgh Film Festival, Gallivant won the Channel 4 Prize for Best Director and the Golden Ribbon Award in Rimini (Italy). In 2011, Time Out named the film the 49th best British film of all time. On several occasions, Kötting has cooperated with Iain Sinclair, Jem Finer, and his daughter Eden Kötting. At the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, he is currently a Time Based Media Professor.
Wikipedia Contributors (2022). Andrew Kötting. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_K%C3%B6tting [Accessed 7 May 2022].
Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell’s found-film montage from 1936 Rose Hobart was created entirely using existing film stock that Cornell discovered in New Jersey warehouses, the majority of which came from a 1931 “B” film called East of Borneo. [14] During its infrequent showing, Cornell would play Nestor Amaral’s record Holiday in Brazil, as well as displaying the film via a deep blue glass or filter, giving it a surreal atmosphere. Focusing mostly on Rose Hobart’s (the original film’s starlet) gestures and expressions, Cornell’s dreamscape appears to be suspended until the film’s most arresting sequence near the end, when video of a solar eclipse is paired with a white ball falling into a pool of water in slow motion.
Wikipedia Contributors (2019). Joseph Cornell. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cornell.
Conventions of horror/psychological horror
They are usually concerned with the audience’s worries, guilt, and beliefs. Part of what makes psychological horrors so terrifying is the prospect that they may happen in real life. They are frequently set in regular communities, and characters appear to have ‘ordinary’ lives at first. What is the definition of psychological horror?
Big houses, wooded landscapes, warehouses, schools, and hospitals are common locations in psychological horror films. These surroundings give the spectator a sense of realism, which heightens their terror. They may often relate to the scenario, allowing them to put themselves in the shoes of the characters, heightening the dread element.
Young children or young families are frequently used as psychological horror victims because they are more upsetting to the audience. The killer often appears to be an ordinary individual with no visible signs that he or she is the perpetrator. When they are revealed to be a serial murderer, the audience is typically taken aback, which adds to the psychological aspects of the picture. Characters.
Horror films frequently use the antagonist’s disturbed psyche as a weapon rather than actual weapons like knives and guns. Although these types of weapons appear in certain psychological horror films, they are not the primary weapon.
Contrapuntal sounds, which do not match the actions of the actors and hence contradict the scene, are frequently employed in psychological horror films. The usage of these sounds is an efficient approach to get the audience to become disoriented.
History
The doppelgänger was considered an omen or a death sign by the Germans. Some people believe the doppelgänger was an attempt by the ghost to counsel the person they had shadowed, while others believe it was an attempt to confuse them by implanting evil concepts into their minds. They were once thought to be sinister, if not downright malevolent. Seeing a double was thought to be a bad omen. As evidenced by reports from doppelgängers, this is the most common today.
Horror movie techniques
One of the most techniques for a horror film/music video is to have transitions, transitions crates a mood where the viewer feels the tension this is because you have to edit it/ cut it in way where it doesn’t take the tension away but instead build the tension.
Another good special technique is special effects, when you are using special effects you have to be really careful, because if you use special effects and they come off as weird or cheap for a movie the audience might not take the film seriously however if its for a music video fake looking like special effects are okay. You don’t only have to do use special effects to create monsters you can also create the mood, atmosphere for the movie/video.
Another technique is shot placements, shot placements matters a lot, this is because you can either make the film. music video follow the chronological order or you can mix the clips/videos to make the audience think about what is happening, however i don’t think this is good for a musical video since not only you are limited time for the song to end but it’ll make things look weird and it wont make sentence for the audience.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DT95eRFqWjI%3Ffeature%3Doembed
Diary of a Teenage Girl
Most of the dialog is her thoughts, meaning everything that is happening around her is happening in her imagination which is why we see the changes around her surrounding such as the comic move or the person in the corner turn into a animation this means we are practically seeing this through her eyes.
The primary character, Minnie, interacts with her own paintings throughout the adaptation of Phoebe Glockner’s graphic novel about the sexual development of a teenage artist. The images Minnie sees and converses with — all drawn by Icelandic Brookylinite Sara Gunnarsdottir — are employed in a similar way to the animation in Life, Animated: to provide access to a person’s interior world (or fictional character, in this case). What makes Diary of a Teenage Girl even better is that the animation is based on Minnie’s own artwork, allowing viewers to see how an artist like her perceives the world as a constant source of inspiration for her work.
Loony tunes back in action
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xfF-ZL3xvxw%3Ffeature%3Doembed
In this clip you can easily notice what is a animation and what isn’t, this is because the drawing is so obvious due to the shading, this is something i was planning on creating for my FMP however this style didn’t fit with my actual story line.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RFopPccCcMY%3Ffeature%3Doembed
In this video above you this movie has its unique way of animating, they use animation as effects. This is something I’m planning on creating for my FMP, I want to use animation as effects. There aren’t that many films that use animation as effects which makes this type of films are unique in their own way.