Totally Tockington Edition 40

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Film ratings-shouldwe have them?

By Aditi Mehendale

As this weeks theme is films, I thought that maybe I shouldtell you about ratings: when they were first introduced; whywe have them; ratings in different countries. After youveread this, drag your parents off to the cinema to see any

film you want, under the excuse its educational! Tell yourparents that you need to try and find the rating when itcomes onto the screen. If it doesnt work, shame. If it does,pretend you didnt see the rating and try again. Anyway,back onto the subject.

The BBFCThe British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is thecompany who says that you cant watch certain films. Itsjob is to watch films, then rate them so that a six year oldisnt traumatized when s/he goes to the cinema. It wasfounded in 1912, and is responsible for making sure thatparents who take little children to see inappropriate filmsare warned beforehand. In fact, if you look at the writingbehind the film ratings, you will see the letters BBFC,repeated and repeated.

Should we have filmratings?

This leads onto the question, should we have film ratings?Should we have a bossy little so-and-so telling us what we canand cant do, film-wise? Trailers often show you if theres going

to be any violence in films should you just be expected toresearch the films yourself? You might be thinking down withratings, I want to go and see an 18. Also, people who are tall fortheir age can be mistaken for the desired age, though a shorttwelve might only pass for eleven. On the other hand, evenwithout ratings some parents will still research the films. Thismeans that sometimes you cant just decide to go, and also,parents might decide a film sounds unsuitable and wont let you

go. With ratings, parents dont look up films, meaning youcan watch a film which they think has unsuitable content,as the ratings allow it.

Edition 40 June 13th 2013 Founded by Ben Owen

EditorialHello and welcome to another week ofTotally Tockington, the newsletter writtenBY students FOR students. In this issuewe immerse ourselves in the glitz andglamour of Hollywood itself. Despitehaving many stars in the making on theteam here at TT, they have managed to

tear themselves away from their agents tobring you an edition fit for any A lister. .Anyway, we look at film ratings and Adititells us what they actually mean. SchoolSquirrel gets in a disaster worthy of a filmblockbuster. Antonia gets us thinking aboutthe top ten best movies. For all you make-and-do fans out there, Lucy sends you anarticle about how to make a flip book.

Enjoy!Tom Edwards

Editor-in -Chief and wannabe.(trying to send the worshiping paparazzi away!)

Honest.No, really.

Ratings in othercountries

Most countries have film ratings similar to ours.For example, America has an R restricted,basically the same as our R18. Somecountries, such as Bulgaria, have lettersinstead of numbers as ratings. Majority filmratings are the same ages as ours, sometimeswith an added 14 or similar. Egypt has 2 filmclassifications; basically, the films are suitablefor all ages, and films that contain violence etc.have the unsuitable bits cut out.

Ive done enough talking. Its time for youto try out this brilliant getting to go to the

cinema tactic. Make sure you do recognize therating though.

Whats in Totally Tockington this week? p 2 Top Movies p4 How to make a flipbook p 8 Silent movies p 11 Quiz time and so much more


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Totally Top Moviesby Antonia Hopcraft

It is very hard to find something everyone likes so some (or most) of these you may think shouldn't

be in the top ten but I have a large range of ages to cover. Some of you might not know thesemovies either.

AT TEN: Little Mermaid. It is a 1989 American Animation. Robert Zemeckis.

AT NINE: Peter Pan. It was a play in 1904 and made into a silent film in 1924 and then in 1953made into an animation film.

AT EIGHT: Charlie and the Chocolate Factorystarring Johnny Depp. Directed by Tim Burton.

AT SEVEN: Home Alone 4. It was a Christmas film in 1990. Directed by Chris Columbus.

AT SIX: Who Framed Rodger Rabbit? It is a 1988 fantasy comedy film. Directed by RobertZemeckis.

AT FIVE: Jurassic Park. It is a science fiction thriller film. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

AT FOUR:The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It is an epic fantasyfilm. Directed by Andrew Adamson.

AT THREE: The Adams Family. It was made in 1946. Based on Bradbury's short stories.

AT TWO: The Adventures of Robin Hood. It is the first motion picture. Made in 1922. Director AllanDwan.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST NUMBER ONE:The Game Plan. It is a 2007 family comedy. Directed by Andy Fickman

Totally JokesQ.Why are movie stars so cool.A.Because they have so many fans.

Q. What do you call James Bond in the bath?A. Bubble 07!

Q. Why didn't Superman know he could fly?A. Because he didn't know his Cape Abilities!

We would LOVE to know what your favourite film of all time is we aredoing a poll for next weeks issue. Please name your favourite film belowand drop it in the TT box!

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If I Were Famous, What Would Ibe Famous for and Why?

by Henry Allan-Jones

If I were famous, I would be a famous sportsman,maybe a cricketer or a tennis player and get lots of

money from winning tournaments andsponsorship.

I would then spend it on a nice big and spacioushouse with a very good view but keep somemoney back to buy a car or two. The first car Iwould chose would be a fast car like a Mercedesor Porsche or Bugatti Veyron Super Sport,however I thought that these might be not verypractical so I looked at off road cars like a LandRover or Range Rover. I decided that I would get

two - an Aston Martin DB9 and a big Land Rover.

I would also spend money training so that I couldget even better at my sport that I would play andso I would become quite famous.

The future Henry at Lords

The Future Henrys Car Parked at Lords!

The History of TVby Ijeoma Ogbogbo

No! TV didnt just magically switch on. In 1925a Scot, John Logie Baird, demonstrated the firsttelevision. When TV first came out it was black

& white. Now I dont know about you, but I thinkthat is quite confusing. How would you knowwhat was what?

Anyway people in those days didn't know whatmodern colour TV was like. They would havebeen really jealous of what we have now.

TV broadcasts in London were on the air anaverage of four hours daily from 1936 to 1939.There were 12,000 to 15,000 receivers.

The start of the Second World Warmeant thatthe BBC service had to be stopped onSeptember 1, 1939, immediately afterannouncing the afternoon's programmes, sothat transmissions could not be used as abeacon to guide enemy aeroplanes toLondon. It started again from Alexandra Palaceon June 7, 1946 after the end of the war,showing a cartoon which had been the lastprogramme broadcast before the war.

At the end of 1947 there were 54,000 licensedtelevision receivers, compared with 44,000television sets in the United States at that time.

In the 1960s Peter Carl Goldmark ( anotherbrilliant person ) made not acoloured but dim coloured TV which was thenext step to the coloured TVs we know. Peoplewent mad for TVs.

And last of all came the colouredTV. You already know what it looks like.But the question is what will TV in theFuture be like?

Wikipedia helped me to write this article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War


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If you want to see these done for real, then

Just Ask Jack!by Jack Knight with photos by Libby Knight

Make a card Disappear

1. Grab a playing card and bend your middle andring finger down so it touches your palm (see fig. 1). It looks a bit like Spiderman.

2. Place the card so the index and pinky are at thetop and bottom and the two middle fingers arebent behind the card. You will have to find the rightposition where it suits you but I like it so the end ofthe card is on the finger nail see figure 2.

3. Now make it disappear by bending your handflat and it looks like it has gone. If you do it with awave, it will be unnoticed see figure 3 and 4.

4. It takes A LOT OF PRACTICE !

Totally awesome magic!!


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Child Actorsby Amy Horler

A child actor is someone who takes part infilms and television programmes and is under17. They can even be as young as babies!

Before you become a child actor you need toget lots of practice in school plays and join adrama group. This will give you the bestchance of getting a part in a film or TV showwhen there is an audition.

An audition is when lots of people try to get apart by reading or singing or dancing, and onlythe best few people get picked. If you arelucky enough to be picked, the producer of the

film will need to get a licence from your localcouncil. If you are even luckier you will bepaid normally not very much, but some childactors get paid millions of pounds if they are ina big film.

The actor who plays Harry Potter is calledDaniel Radcliffe. He first wanted to act aged10, when he got a part in David Copperfield ontelevision. The following year he started theHarry Potter films. It took 10 years to do all 8

Harry Potter films. For the first 6 Harry Potterfilms, Daniel Radcliffe earned 27 million!!

Because child actors are too young to haveloads of money, their parents have to lookafter it until they are 18 and old enough.

How to Create a Flip Book(Your own mini movie!)

by Lucy England

You will need:

A stack of thin paper or post it notesA sharpened pencil

Method:1. Choose the character you want to

animate

2. Draw it on the first piece of paper that

you have pressing very hard

3. Go on to the next page and draw the

image in a slightly different position to

what it was last time

4. Continue this technique until you have

finished your whole flip book

5. Try it out! See how great your creation

is.


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FILm RatingsBy Aditi Mehendale

Universal = all age groups

Parental Guidance = generallyeight and above, parents to take

care

Cinema showing is for 12 andaboveunder twelves must be

accompanied by an adult.

Video showing for is 12 andaboveunder twelves mustbe with or near an adult

See 12 but read 15 instead

See 12 but read 18 instead

Les Misrables:the filmby Abby Blackwell

You may not have heard of Les Misrables,the musical film (adapted from a story writtenby Victor Hugo published in French in 1862),

as it is a twelve film.

Nevertheless, it was filmed very differently toother films. For instance, many films recordthe film, but then record what they sayseparately and put it over the original tape,but it can be slightly out of sync, and that ishow you get the words that don't quite gowith the actors mouth movements.

But for Les Misrables, they didn't do that.They actually filmed it on the scene, with theactors singing live to a piano backing trackthat they could hear through headphones.

In one of the scenes a woman (actor AnneHathaway) had her hair cut, and sheactually did have all of her hair cut off.

In the film, they didn't have a fake

background, they had real backdrops indifferent places to represent France, forinstance, locations in England included:Winchester College, Her majesty's NavalBase Portsmouth, and Chatham Dockyard.None of the film was actually filmed inFrance where the story takes place, but thelocations were very convincing. It is the job ofone of the film crew to find the best locationsfor the films and they travel the countrylooking for the most suitable places.

Fun Facts on Filmsby Lucy Allan-Jones

I decided to research the glitz and glamour offilms.

Did you know that a movie budgetcould run from $1 million to $20-30million dollars? This largely dependson the type of film you are making andthe size of the studio.

Did you know that the sinking set of thefilm Titanic (1997) was the biggest filmset ever built? The ship (which wasscaled to size of the real Titanic) was

built on a tilting platform to sink theship in a big tank.

Did you know that the film in the U.Sthat sold the most tickets was GoneWith the Wind, which sold a whopping202,044,000 tickets?

Did you know that biggest singlescreen cinema has 6,420 seats atGaumont Palace in Paris?


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Wallace and Gromit Animationby Alex Jacobi

Here in Bristol we have the famous award-winning Aardman Animations studios. Nick Park had

the idea of creating characters such as Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Timeand The Pirates. The Wallace and Gromit film: The Grand Day Out was made in 1989.

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Wallace and Gromit is shot using the technique of stop motion. Stop motion is where you set

the position of the plasticine model and then take the picture. After you move the model

slightly, you take another picture. Finally you join up the pictures to make a moving film!

If you want to see more on how Wallace and Gromit is made, check out Behind the Sceneson the new Wallace and Gromit advert on Youtube!


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Review of Silent Movies

by Adassa Walker

Silent movies are harder to understand than

speaking movies. Not only is it hard for you to

understand but it means the actors have to act it outreally well.

I have watched a few silent movies on YouTubebefore. I thought they were very well acted out and it

was very clear what the story was about and some

of them very funny!

One of my favourites was Charlie Chaplin in a filmcalled The Kid. Charlie Chaplin is a very famousactor who has played and directed in loads of silentmovies. He was born on April 16, 1889 in Walworth,an inner-city district in London and he died on the25th of December 1977. He is well known for hismoustache, his bowler hat and his walking stick

I think silent movies are really funny and its another

way to enjoy movies! So I would give it 4 of out 5

cameras.

Sporting Filmsby Oliver Shutt

There are many sporting films in the world.But there is one in particular that I am goingto tell you about.

Its called The Chariots of Fire. The Chariotsof Fire was made in 1981 and it tells the fact-based story about two Olympic athletes thatcompeted in the 1924 Olympic games: EricLiddle and Harald Abrahams.

The film was directed by Hugh Hudson andwritten by Colin Welland. The film was

nominated for 7 Academy Awards and won 4of them, this included Best Picture. It is inthe Top 100 British Films and ranked 19th inthe British Film Institutes.

The title used for the film was inspired bythe William Blake poem which adapted intothe hymn called Jerusalem ( the hymn isplayed at the end of the film) Bring me myChariot of Fire . The original phrase chariot(s) of fire is from 2 Kings in the Bible.

The film is also special because of itsmemorable musical theme made by theGreek composer called Vangelis, who hadalso won an Academy Award for BestOriginal Score.

What is your favourite movie snack? Salted popcorn Sweet popcorn Crisps Chocolate Nachos and cheese Sweets with crinkly wrappers Silent sweets

Ice creamIf you have a different favourite snack, let us know: __________________________


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Max Reportsby Max Curtis

Under 9 CricketThe Under 9s played St Johns on the Hill at home. Whilst the match had to be cut short due tothe weather, Tockington scored an impressive 323. Player of the Match was Angus Duncan.

Under 9 RoundersThe girls played against Beaudesert away. Tockington battled hard but unfortunately lost 21 to9. Player of the match was Jessie Sanzo.

Under 13 CricketsThe boys played St Johns on the Hill at home but unfortunately the weather resulted in the game

being stopped early. Tockington managed, however, before the weather called a halt to thegame, to take 6 wickets with St Johns taking 2.

U11 CricketSt Johns on the Hill came to play Tockington at home. Again the weather caused disruption tothe game with the match being called a draw because of this. Tockington lost the toss and StJohns decided to bat first. While they were batting, Tockington took an impressive 8 wickets.Tockington had a target of 86 to chase, they made an impressive start to their turn to bat but therain eventually took its toll and the game had to be stopped. All players were slightly wet at theend ! Player of the Match Henry Allan-Jones.

U13 RoundersThe girls were at home to Beaudesert. It was a really exciting game and an excellent start to theseason by Tockington with a win of 9 - 5. Player of the Match was Nkechi Ogbogbo with themost improved player Guillemette Rouch.

U11 RoundersThe under 11s were away to Beaudesert.They had a great game and won 12 to 8. OliviaCampbell, their usual back stop, had a fractured hand so could not play so Lucy Allan-Jonesstepped in and did an excellent job.They worked well as a team and displayed great skills andtactics. Players of the Match were Patricia Sanchez and Abigail Blackwell.

U10 RoundersThe under 10s played Redmaids at home. It was a combination side including 2 year 4s, Taliaand Georgina playing. TMS had an impressive start with Olivia Banks and Helena working welltogether but Redmaids put forward a very strong side.TMS tried hard but unfortunately in the endlost despite their great effort. Player of the Match was Talia Curtis.


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Mix and Match Celebrities and FilmsJust connect the actor with the film with a line.

By Roshan Patel

Superman Sigourney Weaver

The Great Gatsby Humphrey Bogart

Star Wars Fay Ray

The Wizard of Oz Judy Garland

Slumdog Millionaire Christopher Reeves

Casablanca Leonardo DiCaprio

Avatar Dev Patel

King Kong Harrison Ford

Pirates of the Caribbean Johnny Depp

ET Henry Thomas

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