1. BBFC
For our production, collectively as a group we have decided our certification to
be 12A. We chose this because, we felt viewers under the age of 12 may find
some scenes disturbing or may be highly effected by the theme of teen pregnancy
or death. Films which are 12A are not to be watched by anyone under the age of 12,
unless accommodated by an adult. However, we do not feel it is suitable to increase the
certification to 15 this is because our production doesn't include scenes which include;
nudity, imitable behaviour or drugs. Also, we can understand that a younger audience may not
emotionally connect with the storyline or understand the plot, whereas an older audience may
understand the storyline and understand how it unfolds. Whereby they can have an emotional
connection with the characters and feel empathy for them.
Our film may include:
Threat
Violence
Intimacy
However, 12A films may include:
Discrimination
Drugs
Imitable behaviour
Language
Nudity
Sex
Threat
Violence
Threat
BBFC states that there may be moderate physical or physiological threat or horror sequences,
whereby within our production the bomb scene and archive footage of the bomb scene may
disturb younger viewers.
Sex
Even though throughout the short film there was no obvious scenes of nudity or
sexual intimacy, there was scenes of subtle intimacy and love. Which wouldn't be clearly
understood by a younger audience, however an older audience would understand the
connection between both characters.
Theme
2. Through the theme of our production, love and death is portrayed throughout, which
disturbing scenes of death and a love story unfold with subtle messages on teenage pregnancy.
Therefore, through these scenes younger audiences may perceive these scenes
as; disturbing, inappropriate and misleading.
