Sheldon Media A Level Coursework- Mr Halsey

   The British film industry: blog task Blinded By The Light: case study blog tasks Film regulation and the BBFC - blog tasks:

  Background reading and production research Read the following interviews and features on  Blinded By The Light : Writer Sarfraz Manzoor on the story behind the film - Guardian Manzoor again on the promotion of the film and audience reaction Variety feature on the best films from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival   1) What is the story behind the production of the film? The film  is based on  Sarfraz Manzoor book  bury park which talks about his discovers Bruce Springsteen  and his music. The film  was directed by Gurinder  Chadha and they  wanted to  have Bruce Springsteen music but they had to get his permission so they went to his concert and asked him a to uses the music and he said yes  2) What was the audience reaction to the film?  that audiences found personal connections to the story. he said that " I could not have predicted that Israeli women in Jerusalem, white teenage American boys in Omaha, Nebraska and older ...

 Film regulation and the BBFC - blog tasks: 1) Research the BBFC in more detail: what is the institution responsible for? How is it funded? What link does it have to government? This history of the BBFC page may help. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is independent, non-governmental and not-for-profit, and has had the responsibility of classifying films since 1912, video tapes and discs since 1985, and more recently, online content. but it's government connection came in in the 1980s, when Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act 1984 (VRA). This made it law that subject to certain exemptions, video recordings offered for sale or hire in the UK must be classified by an authority appointed by the Secretary of State.  It was at this point that the BBFC’s title was changed to the British Board of Film Classification to reflect the fact that classifying films and videos plays a far greater role in our work than censorship, and in 1985 the President and Vice Presid...

  Factsheet #132: British Film Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive  on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets)  to find Media Factsheet  #132  on  British Film . You can  find it online here - you'll need to log in using your Greenford Google login .  Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. A film is British if the film  based on British such as being set in Britain  and having a storyline and cast based 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? For instance the Hollywood production context means that most films made by Hollywood studios have high budgets, a heavy reliance on celebrities both in the cast and crew and spectacle driven stories. Whereas the the British film production context are that films made within the British production context wil...