Rishi A Level Media Blog 2 Mr Halsey

1) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-british-film-industry-blog-tasks.html 2) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/02/blinded-by-light-case-study.html 3) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/02/film-regulation-and-bbfc.html

  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 BBFC was then set up by the film industry to standardise the ratings and give uniform film classification to all films in the UK. It is an independent, non-governmental body funded through charged fees. This means film distributors have always paid a fee to have their works rated 2) Read this  BBFC guide to how films are rated . Summarise the process in 50 words. With all the content they watch, they note details of the general theme characters and the outline of individual scenes along with the timings of key moments, the type of shots and camera angles, bad language, drug references, sex and violence, and so on then give it a age rating 3) Read this  BBFC section on landmark decisions . Why did The Dark Knight generate a large amount of media coverage regarding ...

1) What is the story behind the production of the film? Adapted from a book called  Greetings From Bury Park  by Sarfraz Manzoor (a play on 'Greetings From Asbury Park' - a Bruce Springsteen album). The memoir outlined his experiences growing up in Luton in the 1980s and discovering the music of Springsteen.   it is about a teenage British Pakistani boy whose life feels constrained by his class, culture and community until he discovers the liberating power of the music of Bruce Springsteen. The film is uncompromising in its cultural specificity – and given its subject matter, one would assume it would mostly appeal to British Asians who lived through the 1980s, Bruce Springsteen fans, and in particular, Asian Bruce Springsteen fans who lived through the 1980s. 2) What was the audience reaction to the film? The most common responses to the film were in the ways that audiences found personal connections to the story. I could not have predicted that Israeli women in Jerusale...