character profile

Name: Iona McDowell

Occupation: beautician

Bio: Iona is Ed’s girlfriend and is a nice girl with a nasty bite and her family is not one to be messed with. Iona is usually an upbeat happy person but after her breakup with Ed she becomes sour and no one is sure what she is capable of she has a very close relationship with her family especially her farther and 3 brothers. She listens to dance music and loves going out.   

She wears leggings and a casual top with a scarf.

This character is played by: Iona McDowell

character profile

Name: Edd riddley
 Age: 19

Occupation: unemployed


Bio: Ed is an unemployed con man that makes a living from doing what he wants when he wants and has no regard for laws or anyone’s feelings. He doesn’t care who he hurts as long as there is a pretty penny at the end of it. He had a very troubled childhood and has a lot of enemies due to the amount of people he has conned in various different ways. He likes listening to dub step music and wears just casual clothes he is a rather lazy character that hasn’t done a day’s hard work in his life.

He wears a green checked shirt a black beanie hat and jeans.

This character is played by Ed Wright

Institutional research

I think that the institution that would most likely distribute my media text is 20th century fox as they distribute lots of thrillers such as “silence of the lambs” which is a horror/ thriller but is very famous film which involves the cat and mouse chase story of a detective and a serial killer. And phone booth which is also a very well known thriller. I think that 20^th century fox would be interested in distributing my film as it has done lots of well known thrillers which are fairly similar to my film.

I think that new line cinemas would be interested in funding my film as they have also funded films such as “a history of violence” and “the butterfly effect” I think my film would be a big hit in the box office because it follows the usual codes and conventions that all successful thrillers follow and the target audience is fairly wide.

Regulation Research

The BBFC (British board of film classification) is an independent organisation that gives the age classification for all films. It is their job to make sure that the material in the film is suitable for a the audience at a certain age for example a film with lots of violence, bad language and scenes of a sexual nature should not be shown to a 12 year old. So therefore it is given a rating which defines how old you must be to watch the film.

       Some of the things that the BBFC looks for when giving a certification are:

• Criminal behaviour

• Illegal drugs

• Violent behaviour or incidents

• Horrific behaviour or incidents

• Human sexual activity

The BBFC gives these certificates with these objectives:

• The prevention of crime

   and disorder

• Public safety

• The prevention of public nuisance

• The protection of children

   from harm.

The certificates range from:

·        U (universal)

·        PG (parental guidance)

·        12/12A

·        15

·        18

·        R18 (restricted)

Our film would be rated a 15 because although it has strong language it doesn’t involve any of the strongest language. It also will have scenes of a sexual nature but will not dwell on them and go into detail. It will have drug taking involved in the film but won’t promote it and again won’t dwell on it. There is also violence in the film but isn’t gory in anyway.