Props...

Although we have finished our film now I thought that it would be good to post some of the props we used in our film and why we chose some of them.

We knew that from the very beginning we didn't want to give away too much as to what might happen in our film and we wanted to make sure that our audiences didn't suspect anything from the taxi driver so we decided to include a shot of a family photo (below). We felt that by adding a family photo the audience will automatically see the taxi driver as a family man and will suspect nothing.

We also included a shot of the drivers hands with the rings on, this shows that he is married and again implies that he is a family man and there is nothing out of the ordinary.

We also included some shots such as the taxi badge and the taxi light (below) just to emphasis the taxi and make it the most predominant element in the film.

BBFC research...

Once we had completed our film what we had to do was decide individually what age certificate we thought it should be given, if it was to be made into a full length film. I went online to the BBFC (British Board Of Film Classification) website and found their guidelines to giving a film a age certificate.
Since our film is a physiological thriller we knew that it would contain some scenes of a sexual nature, violence and strong language so it would definitely not be appropriate for a U or a PG, however after looking at the requirements for a 12 and a 12A it would not be suitable for that rating either:

The two possible options for our film would be a 15 or an 18, so I looked at the requirements for a 15 first to see what it contains:

From looking at the elements for a 15 and an 18 I have come to the conclusion that our film should be given the certificate of a 15, this is because although we may have to reduce our limits to what we would have wanted to include in our film, making the certificate an 18 may reduce our audiences and may mean that our box office sales will be a lot less than if it was a 15.

Feedback to our opening...

We decided to get the rest of our class to have a look at our video and give us some feedback on what they like and what we need to improve or change. What we really wanted their opinion on was the ending, we have decided to add a baby crying onto the end of our film just to give it the shock factor with our audiences and here's their opinion:

Final but unfinished opening...

We are so close to finishing that we thought we would upload the opening at its current state, we just have to do add our titles and our production company and we are done! We are not sure if we like the speech which is suppose to be from inside the boot so we are going to record a couple more versions and then decide on which one is the most effective. Here's our ALMOST final film...

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title research...

It has taken us a long time to pick the perfect title for our film and most of them were either too obvious or just didn't fit in with our film. We asked the rest of our media class for any suggestions for our title and we started to think of films like Taken which are very similar to our story line for inspiration but what we loved was the idea of taking a line from a nursery rhyme song. This has been done before with films such as When The Wind Blows and we felt that since the last part of our film was a baby crying this link to a nursery rhyme would tie in brilliantly. We searched the nursery rhyme 'Rock-a-Bye Baby' and found that the line "When the bough breaks' has a sinister feel to it which would be perfect for the title of our film.

Reaction to our almost finished film...

We are so close to finishing our film opening, we just need to add a few more touches and it should finally be complete! We decided to see what some of our media group thought about our film and if they had any suggestions or comments which we can use, so here is a video of Shaileyee's reaction to our film...