BBFC Rating

As 'Rose' contains stong language, such as swearing from Rose's dad in the opening that can be expected to continue throughout, and implications of violence, our film would be rated as a 15, following the BBFC's guidlines. Our opening is also styled by social realism, meaning that, in order to accurately portray Rose's life, we would likely show more violent scenes than that of the opening. However, our film would not feature any gore or sex that would make it an 18.

First Draft Feedback

After completing the first draft of our film opening, we received feedback that, despite being positive towards our stylisation and camerawork, criticised our final scene as it made the opening seem to much like a trailer or a short film. In order to remedy this, we re-filmed the final scene, giving the doctor another line that better indicated more to the story than what we had first included. We also changed the shot type and duration; in the first draft we zoomed out from a close up to a mid-shot and ended with a few seconds of silence. We now use a straight cut to transition from a close-up to a mid-shot, in time the doctor's voice, then after he says his line it cuts back to the first close-up, and ends more abruptly, indicating that this is not the end of the story. We also slightly altered the credits as one of the roles credited was one not usually featured at the beginning of a film, and the font was not stylised in the way that we wanted it to be.

Opening Draft 1

This is the first draft of our opening for 'Rose':