Deciding upon an appropriate age rating for our media product

To decide upon an appropriate age rating for our media product i looked at the British Board of Film Classification's guidelines, we had initially thought that out media product would have to be a 15 as it showed someone paying a prostitute for sex, when we looked at the BBFC's age 15 category guidelines for sex which stated that "sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.

There may be strong verbal references to sexual behavior" we then compared this to the BBFC's age 12 category guidelines on sex which were "Sexual may be breifley and discreetley portrayed" and that " Frequent crude reffrences would not be accaptable" which i felt our video featured. Another reason why we have classified it as a 15 is because throughout our video there is the use of a gun by one of the characters, the BBFC's guide lines for a 12 certifictaion said that " weapons should not be glamourised" which we felt was the case in our music video.

This is why i feel that our music video fits appropitley into the 15 cetifiaction, which is what we have decided to give our music video.

Digipak completion

I have now finished creating the Digipak front cover, which involved me using Adobe photo shop to split three images of three different characters and making them into one singular image with the head of one character, the body and legs of the others.

I then placed the 'monsters' in front of a police line up as this is a reference to the film 'The usual suspects' which linked in to our Band name that we had decided upon 'The Unusual suspects' hence the reason for using the police line up.












I then had to add on the DVD logo, the bar-code and decide what the age rating should be.

Photo shoot two

Today we had another photo shoot of all the characters in walking poses which we are going to use for our poster.
We are thinking of doing a poster in the style of the 'Beatles' 'Abbey Road' but maybe not using a zebra crossing.

Photo shoot one

We have done a photo shoot of all the characters so that we can use them in our ancillary texts and for our digipack cover, we took close ups of each characters head, torso and legs and then full figure shots so that we had plenty of pictures to use. 

Final decision on digipak cover

I have now decided upon a final idea of our Digipak cover, it is going to be a split image of different characters from our video for example the head of the main character, the body of the businessman and the legs of the vicar. i got inspiration for this from watching Examples "Kick starts"

An idea that i want to use for our Digipak cover is this use of front and back, where on one side of the cover there is the front of a person or object.

Then on the back of the digipak is the back of the person or object, my idea for this approach to the digipak was inspired by the self titled album "she wants revenge" who have also incorporated this method.

Ideas for additional items

We have decided to make additional items for our digipak, items that wold appeal to fans such as pictures, posters and signatures. The reason we have decided to do this is because we feel we cannot express all of our creative ideas in just the digipak and advert so are using these additional fan items so that we have more room for  ingenuity and creativity. 

My idea for the additional items is to create a small booklet that has information on each of the characters, such as who played them, ideas we had for their costume, a brief synopsis of the characters story and a a Polaroid picture of them.