The BBFC classifies films, videos, DVDs and digital works to help parents decide what is appropriate for their children to view. They assign age ratings by examining a work's content related to sex, violence, language and other potentially offensive elements. The document discusses a film project that would receive a 15 rating due to its strong language, violence with blood and gore, and potentially horrifying or shocking scenes involving themes of horror and terror. While there are no sexual or drug-related content, the film features frequent scenes of imitable behavior and weapon usage that could be disturbing to viewers.

1. BBFC
The BBFC stands for The British Board of Film Classification. It was set up in 1912 to classify films,
videos, DVD’s and digital works e.g. computer games to help parents/guardians decide what their
children can see. They classify it with age ratings by looking at the content of sex, horror, violence,
nudity, drugs, language, horror, discrimination and
imitable behaviour. The age ratings range from
Uc/U(universal), PG (Parental Guidance), 12, 12A, 15, 18
and R18.
Our film would get an age rating of 15. This is because of the context and how frequent
things occur. We have some strong language scenes and violence with moments of blood and gore.
We have no sexual references/nudity; however some scenes could be classed a horrifying to some
viewers. We also have themes of terror, which could shock viewers. There will be no drugs or
discrimination, but some scenes could be classed as imitable behaviour.
Violence Strong frequent violence
Language Strong language
Sex/Nudity No reference to sex/nudity
Themes Horror, Violence, Terror, Imitable Behaviour
Drugs No reference or use of drugs
Discrimination No discrimination
Weapons Lots of weapons used frequently
Imitable Behaviour Frequent scenes of imitable behaviour
In my film lots of things will need to be considered. For example there are scenes of imitable
behaviour and use of weapons that anyone could get/use e.g. knife. So we will need to take into
consideration not to go into too much detail with these scenes so that it won’t glamourize the act.
Also some scenes may be disturbing/shocking to the audience so this is why we have put a 15 age
rating on so that viewers will take into consideration that there could be disturbing scenes. Lots of
the scenes will include zombies and zombies being killed so this will mean there will be lots of gore
and violence so viewers will have to take this into consideration to ensure they don’t get disturbed
by this.