Certification and Audience
Every film director that wants to get his or her film released in the cinema must first get a certificate rating of their film. These range from U which means anybody can watch it to 18 where only 18year olds and older are advised to watch it. Giving a film a rating lets the audience know a little about what sort of language and content to expect and whether or not they should let their children go and see these films. Certifying that a film is accessible for somebody to watch is done so that people are not offended by what they see. For instance if there were no ratings and you took your child to a film and it was a horror movie and you didn’t know this could shock the child and give it nightmares etc.
Furthermore you can get film certificates such as 12A. This means that they advise that you should be at least 12 to view the film however with an adult it would be acceptable. You can read up on film certificates on www.bbfc.co.uk and this website keeps you posted on all new changes to certification.
As we are making a film as a group we need to discuss what scenes we are going to put into are film to meet the criteria of the certification that we want. As it is going to be a thriller we are probably going to be aiming at a 15certifcate which means it could have things such as strong language or could be slightly scary. However if we are trying to make our film appeal to an audience of 15 and above we cannot add in scenes like a Disney film as 15year olds and above would not want to see this.
I have concluded from the knowledge I have gained from the bbfc website that our film must match a certain criteria for whatever audience we want our film to appeal too.