BBFC – British Board Film Classification

The BBFC was set up in 1912 by the film industry to bring a degree of uniformity to the classification of film nationally. Statutory powers on film remain with the local councils, which may overrule any of the BBFC’s decisions, passing films we reject, banning films we have passed, and even waiving cuts, instituting new ones, or altering categories for films exhibited under their own licensing jurisdiction.

When classifying films with age certificates, they take into account the violence, language, nudity, humour, drug references, discrimination against race, gender, colour or sex orientation.

We have given our film an age certificate of 15. We decided our primary target audience are males over 35 and secondary males under 35 years old, but by making it a 15, this would mean only from 15 above would be allowed to watch it.

Violence High-moderate violenceLanguage Moderate Language – swearing used throughoutSex/Nudity None Themes Conflict, revenge, violence.

There is a lot of killing in our film as well as torturing so this falls under the violence category because the torturing would be seen by the audience, it isn’t hidden and the torturing is quite brutal as there would be a lot of blood and very dangerous techniques would be used in these torture scenes. There is a lot of swearing in the film as the characters get angry and this could impact the audience if there are young viewers and this could make them want to start using swear words and therefor an audience of 15 above would be best.

In the opening scene, a man is shot in the chest which will be shown on camera and this would mean that the context for it to happen would be that the antagonist gets angry and turns to violence and kills a person for interrupting him.