U childrens film

Children's Film U- Finding Nemo

U certificate criteria

• A "U" certificate film is suitable for anyone above the age 5.
• It usually has a positive moral framework for children to learn from.
• It offers a reassuring counterbalances to any threat
• It is suitable for children to view alone
• "U" certificate films cannot contain bad language, drugs, discrimination or sex or sexual scene's

"Finding Nemo" is an animated film and it meets all the "U" criteria.

"Finding Nemo"  is a film about a little fish called Nemo that has been fished out and taken to Sydney, his father was going through a very hard time and has been to very dangerous places to find son. At one point he gave up but he has been influenced by other animals in the sea that he met on the journey. This film is suitable for young children because it is animal based animation, therefore it is interesting and creative for young children. There is a group of sharks in the film that is trying to be vegetarian but after while they can stop themselves and go back to their natural behaviour at which point they act really scarily, this shows that the producers have counterbalanced the threats.

PG Children's Film

What makes a PG;

- Suitable for 8 years and over
- Parents responsibility to decide if their child is mature enough
- Discrimination only for education purposes
- Drugs are mentioned but not seen, must carry an anti- drugs message
- Horror - short and not intense
- More grown up themes

Shrek
  
They discriminate against the ogre being different, but the film shows that it is okay to be different and everyone should be treated equally,
there is fighting but there is no blood.
there are more grown up themes like love.

Anaylsis of childrens action film

The Incredibles

• It is an interesting as you can work out a simple plot of the film
• The characters are fun and it introduces you to them
• It is using basic camera angles, this makes it easy to follow as the audience are children
• It is colourful so it attracts the eye

Science Fiction Opening

E.T

• It stays quite dark through the scene, this gives it a mysterious feeling
• You can work out the basic story line
• The music helps to build suspense
• It seems quite scary and gives you the feel it will be like that for the whole film
• A variety of camera angles, e.g cuts, this makes the scene seem quite fast 

Fantasy Childrens Film

Aladdin

- Exaplains the main story line

- Shows the main characters

 - It is bright and colourful

- Basic camera angles

- Shows the title

- Shows the moral of the story

- Happy music

- Sets the scene

What we liked about it when we were younger;

- Funny characters, e.g the genie

- Happy ending

- We liked how Aladdin is able to fly on a carpet

- You see things that aren't actually real

Jamanji Cinematography

- Simple close ups
- Lots of panning tracking and zooming
- Over the shoulder shots
- Establishing shots
- Low angle shots
- Point of view

- Close up of he tomb stone when the boy was getting beaten up to make the fight out of our view, we also saw the same tomb stone at the start of the film. They do this because it is  children's film and they can't show the boy being beaten up.

How it meets the conventions of a children's film;

- It shows us the main story line
- Shows the main character
- Gives the title
- Has basic camera angles
- Happy music when it was daylight

Favourite Childrens Film

The Lion King -

- Introduces characters and main character
- Bright and colourful
- Happy music
- Shows the setting
- Basic camera angles
- Title

What we liked about the film when we were younger;

- We liked how the animals could talk
- We liked the setting how it is in the bright sunny Sahara
- The animals looked interesting
- The characters are quite funny
- Simple story line so is easy to follow