BBFC

 The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body, which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912, and videos since the passing of the Video Recordings Act in 1984. The guidelines are updated every four years and the current version was published June 2013.

In the creation of a film rating, the BBFC consider the following areas:

Discrimination

Drugs

Horror

Imitable behaviour

Language

Nudity

Sex

Theme

Violence

Our film

Taking into consideration the above information, which includes the areas considered in creating a film rating I would say that our film would be rated as a 15. This is because our film does include strong language, along with violence. Our film will also deal with mature themes, such as poverty, along with more sensitive themes such as racism, gang culture and stereotypes.

Whilst creating our film we hadn't really taken into consideration of our film rating as I believe if we had, it could have limited our creativity. As we are four teenage boys who live in South London, most of the things we  incorporated in our film  are issues we have personally seen or dealt with; issues which are definitely not suitable for the rating of 'U' or 'PG'. I do feel though that rating the film a '15' is consistent with our policy of only including things that are relatable to us. We wouldn't be able to include things that would make the film an '18' due to the sheer fact that if the film was an '18' we wouldn't even be able to watch our own film!

 Also our film could have been a '12' or a '12A' but we felt that as 16 and 17 year old teens, a '12' rated film wasn't applicable to the position we are in in our lives currently. In addition to that, what I have learnt is that a film rating is more important to a film than I had first thought. The film rating does limit the revenue collected from the making of a film as the people watching (the audience) are the people generating the revenue; so the age rating in turn produces your available audience.

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Pitch

 Pitch

Logline/Treatment : 8/10

I was pleased with this score because as I was the one who created the film; this score confirms that the film has a solid storyline and that my analysis/ description of the film is good. Again this was emphasised through the comment of "Nice treatment description".

Language : 7/10

This was a decent score as I felt going into the pitch that it was our weakest area. The feedback consisted of " Good use of theory, including corrective stereotype... Focus a little more on Todorov". I agree with the comments as I feel we could have incorporated more of Todorov's theory of Equilibrium to further prove our understanding of language and concepts within film.

Audience : 7/10

I thought we had covered our audience quite well. Making sure it would be suitable for a range of people of ages and most importantly, those from different ethnic and class backgrounds which we incorporated within our film and pitch in order to appeal to them. However it was our lack of focus on a more straightforward area - age rating. "BBFC classification - can you work within 15 restrictions?". This emphasises our lack of clarity and depth into this aspect.

Representation : 9/10

This along with the Production/Industry were the areas which secured the B grade for the group. This specifically was a very impressive score that we were all pleased with. It quite possibly could've been a 10/10 if we had been "specific about [our] characters".

Production/Industry : 9/10

This for me was the most impressive score of the whole project and possibly the whole course. This is because this area was all down to us without a guideline of how to talk about or to describe it. This was down to our collective research as a group and as the score showed it tells us that by ourselves we are able to do well.

Presentation : 2/10

"A bit too much focus on characters, got a little boring in the middle". The score along with the comments means it's needless to say this was the most disappointing aspect of the whole pitch and quite possibly was the part which limited us from getting closer to the A grade.


Overall comments and grade:
"The most encouraging part of this pitch is how achievable the idea is - well done. It has been clearly thought through. I worry though that the pitch was the work of an individual, not a group".

42/60. B