2. History
The British Broadcasting Film
Classification Company formed in 1912,
originally called the British Broadcasting Film
Censors the business was founded on the
basis of censoring their own films instead of
government organisations doing it for them;
this also filled a gap for film makers because
under the 1909 Cinematography act a film
must be approved by a local or national
censoring company. Because to start off with
the BBFC was only a small local company
their prices were considerably lower than the
governmental organisations; this is because
they needed a strong pricing strategy if they
were to even enter the market, therefore
many film makers began to use their
services instead.

3. History Continued…
From the 1960s- mid 1970s the
board was criticized for being too strict and
cutting substantial amounts of scenes from
films; this lead to unpopularity and in the early
1970s a small number of huge hits in foreign
countries were banned causing the UK to miss
out whilst countries such as France, Germany
and USA enjoyed them.
As the guidelines changed after the
relaxation (in 1999) many films were re-
censored such as Ghost (originally a 12) has
now be reduced to a 12A, this has been the
case for many other films as well.

4. What The BBFC Does
The general duties of the BBFC consist of the classification and censoring of films
which are shown in Britain. This protects the viewer because before they watch a
movie they know what content to expect; therefore reducing the risk of being
offended etc…
The classification system (Copied form Wikipedia source page) is shown on the
next slide:

6. My Film: Psychopath
Based on the information of the previous slide I
have decided to classify my film as appropriate
for ages 15 and over, this is purely because the
victim swears in one scene (therefore
breeching the strong language barrier) other
reasons may be problems such as violence
(the pushing of the victim in the final scene).
The final reason for the decision is because if a
film is under classified is usually receives bad
publicity and therefore reducing the
successfulness of the film, e.g the Woman In
Black (2012) is now referred to ‘probably
shouldn’t be a 12A’. I don’t want this to happen
because it may reduce the confidence the
viewer has in the film; therefore making them
more reluctant to buy/ watch it.