DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATION OF AUDIENCE USED BY BRITISH BOARD OF FILM
The BBFC carries out a public consultation to know what people think about the age rating of film and videos before they released them, so that they will know whether their classifications meets up to the public.
- The BBFC is a lawful and guidelines to avoid vulnerable adults from a possible harmful scenes or unsuitable content.
- It also enables the consumers to know the exact type of movie they want to buy, by that way parents won`t get a movie that would be a bad influence to their kids.
Classifications of Films: Films are classified by the ages of people, which gives the people a brief about what they are about to watch. Below are the following classifications of film
- U : Suitable for everyone to watch
- PG: Parental Guidance
- 12 A: It is a cinema release that is suitable for 12 years and over
- 12 : This is about video release that is suitable for 12 years and over
- 15: This type of classification is suitable for 15 years and above
- 18: This is the kind of film that is only meant to be watched by Adults
- R18: Adults works for Licencespremises only
All these classification decisions are based on the BBFFC published and it always have a regular updated guidelines.
MY MURDER REVIEW
My Murder is a British film based on a true life story of a boy called Shakilus Townsend. In the movie the boy Shakilus was a boy that just came out of prison and then decided to change his life style of living in a more prospective ways.
The boy Shakilus tried very hard not to get distracted about his new decision to be a change boy but he can`t stay away from his past life style. He was tried to stay focus until one beautiful girl take his attention from his prospective. Girls are the kind of things that young people just can`t help staying away.
Another reason that the movie is basically based on young people is the slangs words they used in the film, the characters in the film all spoke in a slangs way.
The smoking, gangs, rap music and knives where all shown in the film of my Murder. There were lot of gang members in the film and also smoke of drugs, violence scenes. Violence scenes like the stabbing of Shakilus when she got set up by the girl that he thought she was nothing like a gang girl. He got stabbed by the gangs with knives for like 6 to 7 times.
HOW DID MY MURDER HIT THE TARGET OF YOUNG TEENAGERS: The film gets a lot of teenager’s attention because it is based on the life style of teenager’s ways of living. For example the knives, gangs, drugs and drinks and the violence catches teenagers attentions because most of these things that have just mentioned, teenagers in London get involved a lot in this kind of life style. The film itself was set up in London and it was a true story of a boy that died of that kind of situation in London.So the film was basically about teenager’s ways of living.
Ways My Murder Understood By It Target Audience: The film was understood by it Audience because of the tragic deaths of the boy Shakilus which was used as a metaphor for young teenagers lives in the film. So it was understood by the teenagers because the film is about their lives and it could be any of the teenagers in London to be in the death situation like the boy Shakilus and the burial of the boy in the film makes teenagers to see themselves in that kind of situation because that’s the kind of life they are living.
MY CONCLUSIONS ABOUT MY MURDER: My conclusion about my Murder is that, it really hits it target because of the theme, setting and background music of the film.
The Theme is basically about the main point of the film which is about a young boy get killed because of a girl by a gang. This kind of situation makes most teenagers to be aware of not getting in to that kind of situation because it is basically about the life style of most teenagers in London.
The Setting also got teenagers attention in London because the film was based or set up in London. It was a true story that happened in London and they made the film in London and the accent also got their attentions.
The sound track or the music of the film also played a lot in the attentions of the teenagers in London because most teenagers in London listen to that kind of music. The music in the background was more about gang songs.
Drugs and Drinks that was included in My Murder film also hit the target (teenagers).
50 Cent Story
CURTIS JACKSON “AKA” 50 CENT is a rapper that was born in America in New York. He was born and raised in the South Side of New York (Queens). He was raised by his grand parent, who took care of him after he lost his mom.
Curtis leave with his grand parent until he was 17 years, when he start thinking about making his own money and stay on his own. Curtis wanted a fast money so he decided to join the family business which was the drugs selling. He sold drugs and start earning his own money but Curtis always get himself in to police custody because of the drugs selling. He went in jail for so many times until he gave up and decided to stop the drug dealing and move to a different carrier to become a rapper.
- CURTIS JACKSON “AKA” 50 CENT is a rapper that was born in America in New York. He was born and raised in the South Side of New York (Queens). He was raised by his grand parent, who took care of him after he lost his mom.
- Curtis leave with his grand parent until he was 17 years, when he start thinking about making his own money and stay on his own.
- Curtis wanted a fast money so he decided to join the family business which was the drugs selling. He sold drugs and start earning his own money but Curtis always get himself in to police custody because of the drugs selling.
- He went in jail for so many times until he gave up and decided to stop the drug dealing and move to a different carrier to become a rapper.
KEY TERMS
DEMOGRAPHICS: It can be defined as the studies of human population of their race, gender, age, sex, economic status level of educations, income status and employment among others. Example Marketer, female, middle class age etc.
PSHYCOGRAPHIC: Is the study of personality, values, customs and tradition, opinion,interest for example, you can give your own opinion of what you think about the market industry or music industry.
GEO DEMOGRAPHIC: It provide the means of classy people by neighbourhood other small area according to the characteristics of those people. Example Gratuities number student numbers, gang number etc.
The question Film Competition: The film Question attracts young people that are age 16 and above that are interested to make a film or act in the film.
It basically attract people that want to be involve in the film making industry with a chance of getting paid if you made it in the top three list.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: It can be define as the sexual status of a person for example the person might be straight ,bisexual ,or Lesbian.
CODE: Is basically about convert numbers to letters just to talk in secrecy so that other people may not understand what you might be talking about.
READING TEXT:
MARKETING: It is about the action of business to promote the product or selling the product or services including research and advertising.
SCHEDULING: Is about planning of work or business so that you will know the exact thing to do next, it is basically about setting up plans systematically.
DISTRIBUTION: It is the action of giving goods or anything to a different numbers of recipient.
PROFILING
My name
Age
Gender
Height
Ethnicity
Dress Code
Nationality
Religion
Email Address or Phone Number
MEDIA CONSUMER AND PROFILING: It can be defined as a person that buy internet or media stuffs like Facebook instagram etc
Classification: Is basically about the things that should be bought by some certain age of people.
Mass Market: Is a largest group of consumers for a specific products for example Apple headphones.
Niche Market It is basically the opposite about Mass market wherein Niche market is a small group of consumers for a specific products for example balloons
How the Internet Change Media. The internet changed media in a different ways like
Facebook most companies now don`t use the media for their advertising because they prefer using something that most of the people use which is Facebook. In facebook 70% of the people use it and when the company advertise their products in it, it is basically 70% of the people knowing about the products you are advertising.
The internet also change media through buying of clothes online through E bay or other social network. People prefer their goods to be delivered to them instead of them going to the shop to get the goods or the products. It makes people to be lazy.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: It can be define as the sexual status of a person for example the person might be straight ,bisexual ,or Lesbian.
CODE: Is basically about convert numbers to letters just to talk in secrecy so that other people may not understand what you might be talking about.
DANGERS OF MEDIA
FORGE IF ACCOUNT: What they did is that they will be putting images of you and open a new Facebook page, by that way they can do anything with that account and you will be implicated if they do any criminal act in that account.
PRIVACY TO YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOT RESTRICTED: People can see the things you like what you are interested in and also your profile updates.
USE OF PHOTOSHOP IN THE INTERNET CAN IMPLICATE YOU: Some people use Photoshop in a wrong way by fixing images of people and make them to be nude is bad to that person carrier or personality.
LIVE TO REMAIN BULLET POINTS
How Media Industry Identify Audiences for its Products
- The age group of characters: which is based on teenagers age group
- The main theme about the audience which is about immigrants and their different lives and about their struggles in settling in London
- The Race, religion and tradition and customs of the characters
- The setting of the film which was based in London
- Things like clubbing, drugs and violence also included in the film and that catches teenagers attentions
How Media Products are Constructed For Specific Audience
The age The Accent
Sexual abuse The different ethnic groups
Religions or customs and belief Change of Identities
Race Club, drinks drugs
Immigrants Violence
LIVE TO REMAIN
How Audiences can Respond To Media Products
I don`t think it is strange to immigrant audience because some of them might have been in that kind of situation which makes them feel like their stories has been told
It is shocking to other audiences that are not immigrant because they haven`t being in that position.
The clubbing, drugs and drinks is not shocking to the audience
The struggling to get a live to remain is not shocking as well to the audience.
HOW MEDIA IDENTIFY AUDIENCES FOR IT PRODUCTS
The film Live to Remain is basically about immigrants in different countries that have different struggles from their countries and also about their struggling in settling in the UK.
This film was shots in London and most of the characters are teenagers; it contains different stories background of different immigrants. This story was directed by Bruce Goodson and the writer of the film is Charlotte Colbert.
The media industry classifies this film as 15 which is basically unsuitable for kids that are 14 because of the content scene of the film.
Age: The age rate of the film characters is based on teenagers characters like Omar, Abdul ,Zizidi they are all teenagers.
ETHNICITY: The ethnicity of the film characters is wide because of the immigrants where from different countries some of them are from Africa, Asia or Pakistan
FORGE IDENTITY :The movie also explains how people change their identity just to get in the country like Omar he is a Taliban he had to change his Identity because the British people sees Taliban as a terrorist and that would’ve made Omar not to be in the Uk if he told them his real identity.
ACCENT: The accent of the characters where all different because of the ethnicity or the countries they are from so some of the have the Kenya accent some even could speak English like Abdul.
CLUB LIFE, DRINKS AND SMOKE: Shows the life of young teenagers in London and some of the immigrants also try to adapt to that kind of life because they are teenagers even though some of them might not have the access to go to club back then in their different countries that they were from like Zizidi she even find it hard to even put on a makeup or even to know how to work on high hill shoes.
VIOLENCE: Violent is pretty based on teenagers they have different fights for different issues like Omar and Abdul when Omar was threatening Abdul about keeping his mouth shot about his true identity.
HOW MEDIA AUDIENCE CAN BE CONSTRUCTED FOR A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE
The media audiences is basically constructed for a specific audience by the age, sex, setting, the theme of the film, content scene Violent, Race
The film live to remain was constructed for teenagers because of the age type
The Age of most of the main character where all teenagers and that gives teenagers in London the eyesight to like have more interest in the film because the film is basically based on their age group.
SEX: The sex of the characters need to be a mix of sex, it should be both male and female the directors can`t just make a whole film and just have only one sex it has to be interactive because if it does not contain both different sex then people will get bored of it they might even take the film as a sexism film which is really bad for business.
RACE: The race of the characters is also important because with knowing the root of the characters the film might as well be of no beginning because the race of the characters in the film Live to Remain goers with the main theme of the film because the film is basically about immigrants that came from different countries to settle in the UK. So obviously the race of the characters needs to be known by the audience.
THEME: The theme of the film is basically about immigrants that came from different countries to settle in the UK and how it is like to be in the UK how to get a permanent stay in the UK. This theme of the film catches not only teenagers but also people that fight to get their stay in the UK it drags those kind of people that are in that position so the film Audience can also be about immigrants not just teenagers.
SETTING: The setting of the film Live to Remain also catches and constructed for a specific audience because of the country or place that the film was shot and where the story itself was based. The story Live To Remain was really based on the immigrants that were based in London because of their different reasons to live their own countries just to settle in the UK.
CODE OR SLANGS: The code of the film Live To Remain is the different languages the character speak For example Abdul and Omar when Abdul wanted to tell the teacher about Omar true identity Omar use a code that was in their language so that other people won`t get exactly what he was saying to abdul it is more secretive for anyone else to know what he was actually saying to Abdul.
REVIEW OF THE FILM LIVE TO REMAIN
The film live to remain is based on how immigrants from different countries struggled in the UK just to get a Live to Remain visa and their different reasons to leave their various Home Country just to settle in the UK and how it is like to live in the UK.
The immigrants in the film were from different countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan, Afghanistan.
Some of these immigrants didn`t just wanted to come in the UK but it was because of various reasons like one of the characters Zizidi she was sexually abuse she had no pride as a woman because seven men rape her and she got no saying and no one to speak for her. She was molested by the men in her country sexually, physically, emotionally.
She got so many scars on her back that was inflicted by the men that raped her , so she had no choice than to just settle in the UK because she feel safe in the UK.
Other characters like Omar show in the film that not every immigrant’s identity in the UK shows their true identity. Omar forge his identity because if he told the immigration officers that he is a Taliban they wouldn`t have given him a visa to stay in the UK , because Taliban are considered to be terrorist in the London and the immigration office will sees it as a threat to the lives of UK citizens.
The immigrants also find it different to adapt to the system in London because of the club lives the dress codes the weather it was different for them because the place they come from they have such access or see something like the things they saw in the UK.
The film itself is surrounded with teenagers but the struggle that most of them went through just to get their Live To Remain visa can also be surrounded with immigrants not just teenagers but immigrants that struggle to stay or to adapt to the weather or the clothing style etc.
The film also contains some violence scene like the part where Abdul decided to reveal the truth about Omar true identity and he later then slide the knife in his own neck because Omar had threaten to kill him if he ever tell the truth about his real identity.
So the film is basically based on teenager’s immigrants with their different reason to be in the UK and how it’s like to live in the UK and their struggle to have stay in the UK.
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