Target Audience and BBFC Rating

To set a target audience for our film we need to look at the classification for our film and what the rating would be if it was released by the BBFC film board.

BBFC Classification

PG Entitlement:

Mild bad language can be used such as B**** and S***, however they must be used in a non aggressive violent manner to prevent them from being rated a 12. Repeating these words is also not allowed.

Smoking and drinking cannot be promoted and encouraged.

Sexual references can be made but not shown in full 

No detailed violence is allowed. Blood is permitted by the cause of the injuries are not allowed to be showing in great detail.

Drugs can be spoken of and shown but they cannot be focused upon unless it is an anti-drug film or has an educational message that children over 8 will understand.

Our film would fit into the PG rating, at first we thought about giving it a rating of U, however, with the idea that our Male character would be murdered and 'dead' effected it due to the violent nature of this. 

We also believed that the classification would be PG because of the wider range of target audience we can achieve. If it was classed as a U people might think of the film as childlike and wouldn't appeal to a wider audience as we would like the film to do.

A similar film to ours would be the 2009 film, The Time Travellers Wife:

It has a 12A rating as the storyline includes some swearing and obvious sexual references. This rating is the one a little bit more adult than ours however the film does follow the same conventions as ours, just with some more graphic content making the rating higher. According to the website www.cinemareview.com opinions on this film are high through all different ages and genders which is what we wish our film to be.