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.
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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