BBFC

In our session today with Faye we were learning about BBFC, BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification. And their slogan is, 'Age rantings you trust.'

The age ratings are as shown on the picture at the side of this text, all of these are made so that each film is suitable for each age target, this stops young people having nightmares/watching movies that are not suitable for them.

U - U stands for Universal and is from the age of 4 onwards. Movies that are targeted as U have no sexual content, no violence and no inappropriate language.

 PG - PG stand for Parental Guidance. This means that the parents can decide if they want their child to be watching films like this, if so they have to be accompanied by some sort of adult.

12A - 12A  is when you are allowed to go and watch a certain film by yourself if you are over the age of 12, if you are younger than you must be accompanied by some sort of adult.

12 - 12 is when you have to be over the age of 12 to watch the film, even if you are not or are accompanied by an adult. In these films there is discrete sexual content, strong language, comedy (sex references) and mild violence.

15 - 15 is when you have to be 15 or over to watch a certain film, they contain strong violence, sexual content, drug taking, swearing and strong verbal references to sex.

18 - 18 is when you have to be 18 or over to watch a certain film,  they contain quite a lot of strong violence, sexual content, frequent strong language, scenes of sexual violence and strong horror.

As a group, me and my film decided that we were going to make our film a 12A. This is because it contains some depressing sences and we feel that it would be best to make it up to the parents if they think it is suitable for their own children to watch.