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The british bored of film classification (bbfc
The BBFC is an independent non-profit organization that regulates and assigns age ratings to films in the UK based on their content. It is important for filmmakers to be aware of the BBFC's ratings as they can impact a film's audience and commercial success. The document discusses how a higher age rating assigned by the BBFC, beyond a filmmaker's target audience, could negatively affect viewer numbers and sales. The filmmaker aims to create a horror opening rated 15 or over so it can contain adult themes, but will need to consider BBFC guidelines to achieve this rating.
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- 2. The BBFC isan independent media regulator that regulates films on their content and then decides on their certified age of viewing. The BBFC is a self financing, non profit organisations that operates in the UK.
- 3. Here is ascreen shot taken from the BBFC’s website explaining their mission.
- 4. Its very importantto be aware of regulators in any media industry, especially of the BBFC as they decide at what age your audience can view the movie you create. Essentially it can ‘make or break’ a film as if a production companies target audience is aged 9 and then the BBFC certify it as 12 then this could have a negative effect on viewing and sales as the audience may not be able to get to view it or purchase it by themselves on DVD/Blue Ray.
- 5. When creating myhorror opening I need to be very aware of my target audience as it need to be a age appropriate to my target audience.
- 6. My aim formy horror opening is for ages 15 and over to view it therefore have it as a rated 15 film which can contain adult themes for example hard drugs, strong language, strong violence and sex references also a limited amount of blood and injuries. Whereas a certified 12 couldn't contain much of the above there for this tells me to keep up with the codes and conventions of horror, meaning I should aim to archive that classification (depending on my audience research results).