Certification

Certification

The certification we choose for our film is a 15. This is because we see it as containing strong violence, not so much in the opening but planned to be later in the film - and "Frequent use of strong language" which both come under the bbfc 15 rating. Also, the idea of a lack of moral compass is essential in how we decided what we were going to rate our film. The point of our film is to create suspense and an attachment with the main character, who takes hits out on people to gain money. Because of this, younger more influential people could take violence to be seen as a good thing and as such give off the wrong idea about what is deemed acceptable. Going off of this point, the Official BBFC website states that "Easily accessible weapons must not be glamourised", because of this (With the knife in the opening scene) we can't pay much attention to it and must make it understated. Within the rest of the film, uses of guns or other weapons could be used but none as easily accessible as the knife. The language used must not also be used in a threatening way when coupled with its frequent use, and as such must just be used in times of panic or distress. A complete lack of sexuality within the film also helps.

Compared to 18 films however, our film doesn't focus on the violent and urban features of the films but more the psychological and the mood. Because of this, the "Strong blood and gore" and "very strong violence" are not relevant. It also states that "Dwelling on the infliction of pain or injury" which like mentioned before, we do not want our film to be about. Our film definitely rises above the boundaries of 12 and 12A however, which don't allow dwelling on the sight of blood or killing, with a definate lack of gore. We see in our film this lack of blood would defeat the realism we wish to create and actually put audiences off, especially as the focus of the film is to create an atmosphere that's as realistic as possible.

JL