Age
certificates are carefully studied ratings that are given to films, music
videos and much more to ensure that the content of what is being viewed has a warning
for people about to watch. This is important for the viewers to know this as
they may be too young to view the content. For example, an age certificate of
18 could include content with an explicit sexual, violent, drug abusing nature
which wouldn't be suitable for people of younger ages to view. Anybody younger
that watches the material could be affected by it mentally as they might have
been too young to understand right and wrong and start acting out what they
see. This is why in cinema’s anybody younger than the age rating is not allowed
to see the film and they are turned away.
A PG rated
film might include little swearing but it would only be used in a non-violent
or threatening way. If it was then the film would be passed to a higher
category. There is little reference to sex and drugs and therefore people
watching this won’t be influenced by any actions acted out by characters in the
film.
A 12 rated
film might include little strong language and non-graphic violence. Furthermore
there are more puns on swearing rather than saying the words out loud giving
the audience the satisfaction that they know what the characters were trying to
say but saying it in a less rude and funnier way.
An 18 rated
film might include strong language, portrayals of a sexual nature, string blood
and gore, real sex and discriminatory language or behaviour.
We believed
that using BBFC’s (British Board of Film Classification) of determining age
certificates we could accurately suggest an age certificate for our film. We
thought that our film should be a 15 as it will include strong violence, strong
language, drug taking and tension throughout the film. If our film wasn’t rated
highly enough, then younger viewers could watch it and find it distressing
which reflects badly on us. From our research we realised that our audience was
going to be from ages 15 to 25 as we believe they would be the most likely
people to watch action films.
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