Our production team carefully considered the BBFC content guidelines to ensure the film would receive a 12 rating, allowing it to reach the largest possible audience. Moderate violence and brief strong language were acceptable at this rating. Drugs and sex were avoided altogether as they were unnecessary for the storyline. With a 12 rating, the film could contain fight scenes and occasional strong language while keeping the overall content appropriate for age 12 and up.

1. Our Production and the BBFC
In the UK, before a film or TV show can be displayed to the public or
sold for home use, it must be reviewed by the BBFC (British Board of
Film Classification). They will give the production a rating based on
its content. This may include drug use, strong language, sexual
content or violence.
This was taken into consideration when planning our
production, and we decided, based on the guidelines given by the
BBFC, what rating our production was likely to receive.

2. The rating we wanted
• In order for our production to reach the greatest amount of people, we wanted it
to be rated 12, as this would allow for a greater reach in our audience, whilst also
allowing for moderate examples of violence and other content.
• To ensure this happened, we based our storyline and narrative around these
restrictions, to ensure the production stayed as a 12

3. Violence in our Production
Although our opening sequence didn’t contain any scenes of violence, our
whole production would include fight scenes and other forms of moderate
violence. The BBFC rating states that productions containing moderate violence
come up the classification of a 12, which allows anyone aged 12 or over to be
considered suitable to watch the production. This could also come under the
12A category, which is rated slightly higher than a 12, but still allows anyone 12
or over to view it with adult supervision.

4. Language within our Production
Our opening sequence contains no strong language, but our full production may
contain brief examples. This would again cause our production to be rated as a
12, but care would be taken to ensure this rating didn’t go higher, meaning the
amount of strong language would be kept to a minimum.
We believe that strong language is not always necessary, and is often used without
purpose. We believe we would use it to show the frustration of a character or, if
used frequently, to show that a character is quite violent or antagonistic.

5. Drugs and Sex within our Production
The use of drugs will not appear at any point within our production at any point, as
we didn’t see it as necessary to the storyline or narrative. Due to the nature of the
scenario we saw no reason for the protagonist or any other character to use or
discuss drugs within the production.
The same applied for using sex within our production. Although sex appeal may
help to interest a male audience, so would violence and the sci-fi elements of the
narrative. Sex appeal could also interest a female audience, but the drama
element of the narrative also do this job in a different way.

6. Conclusion
• In conclusion, we believe that our production would be rated a 12 but the BBFC,
which would help the reach of of audience to increase, therefore getting a larger
viewership, which hopefully would subsequently increase its popularity.