PLANNING: BBFC CERTIFICATION

My group and I decided that it would be appropriate for our film trailer to have a film certification of 12A/12 as our film trailer has a reasonable amount of imitable behaviour, discrimination and violence, especially when The Ghost kills Sydney. This could be seen as shocking, frightening and disturbing to the audience who may even copy it. Scenes of imitable behaviour and threat can be seen in the film trailer when Sydney and The Ghost are selling illegal passports to refugees; this could be seen as worrying for a parent for their child to watch. With a certification of 12A and 12 a parent can have choice.

 

Although I considered our film to be a 16 initially, after research I have completed on films certified 16 I have to decided that a 12A/12 certification is appropriate.

 

My film trailer doesn't have any of the following that a film certified 16 has:

•  frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
•   portrayals of sexual activity
•   strong verbal references to sex
•   sexual nudity
•   brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
•   discriminatory language or behaviour
•   drug taking

 

BBFC 12A and 12 suitability

 

Below is a slide about the purpose of the  BBFC I made in Piktochart.  

 

Below is a video on the British Board of Film Classification explaining the importance of classifying movies with an age certification.



Below is a video from the British Board of Film Classification explaining the difference between a film classification that is a 12 and another that is a 12A. The main reason behind the two is that it gives the audience choice as two 12 years are different from each other in terms of parental guidance and personal opinions on watching films of different genres that may be explicit and have sexual connotations or swearing.

A 12A film requires an adult to accompany any child under 12 seeing a 12A film at the cinema such as at the Everyman, Odeon or Vue. This is enforced by cinema staff and a cinema; it may lose its license if adult accompaniment is not enforced for children under 12 admitted to watch a 12A film. Accompanied viewing cannot be enforced in the home, so the 12 certificate remains for DVD/Blu-ray, rather than a 12A.

The 12 is also a simpler system for retailers. It means they cannot sell, rent or resell (second hand at a charity shop, for example) the item unless the customer is over the age of 12.