Film Certificate OTS Task

As our film will include violent scenes int needs to have a reasonably high film certificate. When researching the different film certificates on the "British Board Of Film Certificates" if found that the 18 certificate may be the correct certificate for our film. I feel that as our film will include murderer and mild torture that it should only be appropriate for adults. The opening title sequence will include a hostage scene and may be unsuitable for people under 18, However during my research I also found that the 15 certificate may also work for the film but as the actual film may include more scenes that could be distressing to the viewer we decided 18 would be the best solution and people under 18 might not find the film interesting to watch.

18 works are for adults and can contain strong issues such as:

•   very strong violence
•   frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***') and / or very strong language (e.g. ‘c***’)
•   strong portrayals of sexual activity
•   scenes of sexual violence
•   strong horror
•   strong blood and gore
•   real sex (in some circumstances)
•   discriminatory language and behaviour

Though 18 films and videos may cover difficult and strong subjects and themes, harm is still a consideration. Very dangerous or criminal behaviour (for example, behavior which if copied poses a credible harm risk) may be cut.

This was Created By Adam

Ident Soundtrack ( OTS Task )

Ident Soundtrack for ISHBANDAM Productions:





This is the track I have selected for our Ident. The tack is upbeat and fast at the start giving it a good effect on an ident. The track however will need to be cutdown and slowed down so the first part of the track can be selected and used and placed over the ident. This will be done in the final cut and edited onto the ident.

Mise en scene Props for OTS Task

Some of the props used in our OTS Task:

The Gun: This is the gun which we used in our hostage scene , criminals gun

String: We used the string to tie up the hostages hands so it gave the poor hostage effect

Plastic sandwich bag: We used this in our detective scene to create the DNA effect

Gloves: These are the jet black gloves which were wore by the criminal to give him the dark suspicious feeling

Pillow case: These are the black pillow cases which were put over the hostages heads during the hostage scene

Sound Research ( OTS Task )

Sound Research


As I have the role of head of sound I have been doing a lot of research into royalty free sound tracks and into different websites i could use to find the right sound track and piece of music/sound to go over the whole production. I was looking for a piece of sound which was around 2:30 minutes and was filled with suspense and tension.

These are some of the sound websites and sounds inside them which I have been looking at and saving for possible future use in my groups final cut for our OTS task.

Final Production Planning

Our Main Job Roles For Our OTS Task:

Adam Anderson - Lead Camera Man
Ishaaq Tolentino - Lead Editor
Jack Banham - Lead Sound Man / Lighting

We have decided this as we believe we are all different and better areas and will benefit from taking the lead in our best area. We shall also share the smaller jobs for example location, as we believe its important we all have a say in this.

We have thought about our film title and we decided that the name of the film should evolve and the word revenge. We used an online thesaurus and came up with a lot of different names like vengeance, retaliation and reprisal. The name we decided to go with was Retribution as we felt this sounded the best and fitted with our plot for our story. Evidence of us researching for this is in the picture

We decided to create our production name and ident which Ishaaq was in charge of. The first idea was an outline of each of us which worked out quite well and the second was evidence of turning into a video by making the picture and name fade in and out. When thinking of a name for our group we came up with 'IshBanDam productions' this was crated by using three letters of each of our names for example 'Ishi came from the start of Ishaaq and 'Ban' came from Jack Banham and 'Dam' came from Adam.

We have thought about our film title and we decided that the name of the film should evolve and the word revenge. We used an online thesaurus and came up with a lot of different names like vengeance, retaliation and reprisal. The name we decided to go with was Retribution as we felt this sounded the best and fitted with our plot for our story. Evidence of us researching for this is in the picture

We decided to create our production name and ident which Ishaaq was in charge of. The first idea was an outline of each of us which worked out quite well and the second was evidence of turning into a video by making the picture and name fade in and out. When thinking of a name for our group we came up with 'IshBanDam productions' this was crated by using three letters of each of our names for example 'Ish came from the start of Ishaaq and 'Ban' came from Jack Banham and 'Dam' came from Adam.

For inspiration we looked at a few images of crime scenes and terrorist scenes in other films to give us an idea of what we want to create. For one of our props we decided to create a suspect board which will be used in our  opening title sequence

( This work was mainly created by Adam and represents the whole groups work )

Practice Scene Drawing ( OTS TASK )

Hostage Scene Rough Drawing

This is a rough drawing in which we did as a group to outline our scene and to try and include as many of the props in which we think will be in the scene. The camera at the front on show was used to show a possible split screen/live feed which may be used to capture the scene to reflect in other scenes to come.

Themes For Our OTS Task

 This is the theme called Allan Cameron and we decided that we could use this theme as we would like to use the split screen aspect of the theme as we think it would be affected for our story line. This could be easily used for our detective scene in our OTS task.

 This is the Levi Strauss theme. We have used this for the idea of the two characters being corresponding. For our story it would be that the detective is the hero and is light where as the killer is the villain and has a dark atmosphere around him.

 This final theme is called Barthes action and enigma code. We have chosen this for the idea of the enigma scenario and the 'Who done it' scene in our OTS task. The enigma is also helpful to link the terrorist with the detective e.g does he know him.