The Unpredictable- film certificate

The Unpredictable

Who are the BBFC? And what is their job?

The BBFC are a UK based trust which now days work around films certificates. They had previously worked in other areas of the media industry in game certificate. the role of the BBFC is to view films before they are distributed to the public, in this process it is the responsibilities of the moderators to give the film a suitable age rating. This process follows a set of guidelines which are regularly updated through the system. BBFC have the role to highlight what is and what isn't acceptable for a 15 for example, if something in the film is not acceptable they may move the age rating up to 18 or even cut this aspect out, feeding back to the producers which then will change this aspect of the film.   

What does the certificate 15 mean?

No one under the age of 15 can go and watch this film. nor buy or rent at a local rental store. 

What does the 15 rated film contain which makes it a 15?

• Drugs taking 
• brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
• discriminatory language or behaviour
• Strong violence

These are an over view of some aspects which are taken into consideration by the BBFC when awarding a 15 certificate.

What makes our film an 15 certificate rating?

Our film has the clear uses of some of the guidelines for a 15 rated film which makes it a 15 and not a 12. As our film contains a large number of scenes containing gambling makes it unsuitable for the younger audience. Throughout the film we show several uses of drugs taking, however this is only a mild use of it which involves several shots of Brian placing a tablet in his mouth. Other aspects which consolidate the 15 rating is use of language however, it is only mild and isn't used frequently or strong enough to make this unacceptable for the 15 rating. In terms of violence Our film doesn't show frequently gory images only in the last few shots when we see Brian laid out on the floor after he gets hit by the car, here we see very mild gory images of blood.

Our film target audience?

As our film has been given an age rating 15, we will be addressing our target audience between the ages 17-25, which we found from our audience questionnaires previously in our project.