BBFC Ratings

When it comes to an age 15 rating film any of the following are what an audience could expect to see in the film:

• Strong violence
• Frequent strong language
• Portrayals of sexual activity
• Strong verbal references to sex
• Sexual nudity
• Brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
• Discriminatory language or behaviour
• Drug taking

The rating that was chosen for our film would expect to be a 15. Due to our chosen genre of a Crime/Thriller including the use of weaponry and violence it would not be a suitable film for any audiences below the ages of 15. A film with this age rating would normally include the use of violence along with the showing of severely wounded or deceased characters with the use of blood spurting from the wounds. An example of a film that would have similar amounts of violence is a film called ‘Sicario’ as from the BBFC it states that a reason it received a 15 age rating was because it included the use of violence such as men being shot and blood spurting from the wounds and the use of showing detail of injury such as blood-stained corpses, a man bleeding from his throat and a man’s severed hand.

Another example of a film that has been given a 15 age rating by the BBFC is the film 'The Equalizer' which was given the age rating according to one of the following reasons: Strong bloody violence, the use of improvised weapons such as stabbing a man under the chin with a corkscrew and slamming a shot glass into a man's eye. However, this was given a 15 because the film had more focus on the character's ability to think quick and his skill rather than the pain he inflicted on the character's.











My movie will follow the generic conventions as we will keep the overall story a mystery until the very end this will draw the audience’s attention to keep watching until the very end, furthermore my opening will begin with an action opening to draw the audience's attention and only give them a few details to not leave them totally in the dark about what's going on. A Crime/Thriller would dictate the age rating as the way that the film industry has established most films that include an aspect of crime in it need to include violence as a theme to gather the attention of the audience, this is a generic convention that is seen used in multiple Crime/Thriller films as it has become an expectation people have for the genre. To ensure our film won't become an 18 rated film we must make sure that our film doesn't dwell on the pain inflicted on people and that our scenes don't include any strong sadistic behavior, this is an important detail to know as one of the antagonists will be presented as a mentally unstable character, this means that we would need to think about what would be considered acceptable but also what we can do to present to the audience that this person is borderline suicidal and is not afraid of death. It is also important to note that footage will be cut if it harms a humans morals and make crime look appealing to the audience. Overall, it is considered acceptable to include violence and crime in our film, although, we need to make sure that our film doesn't promote crime, violence and drug abuse to the audience as this would not considered acceptable at our chosen age rating and even an 18 rated film would not accept the any of theses guidelines as well.