The British Board of Film Classification regulates films submitted by studios and assigns age ratings to films based on two main criteria: context and tone of impact. Context refers to how issues are presented, such as whether violence is realistic or fantasy-based. Tone of impact considers how the audience may feel after viewing. For the film Lethal Secret, the board considered drugs, imitable behavior, language, theme, and violence as key areas and ultimately rated the film 15 due to the frequent violence and criminal behavior portrayed.

1. BBFC
The British Board of Film Classification regulate films submitted by studios, to determine the
age classification of the particular film. When classifying a filmthe main two areas that are
taken into consideration are context and tone of impact. Context regards the way in which
an issue is presented, for example violence in a filmcan be realist or fantasy based. Tone of
impact refers to how the audience feel after they have watched the film. The main issues
that come under these two subjects are;
 Discrimination
 Drugs
 Horror
 Imitable behaviour
 Language
 Nudity
 Sex
 Theme
 Violence
For Lethal Secret, the key areas likely to be taken into consideration are as follows:
Drugs Moderate reference towards drugs
Imitable Behaviour Frequent criminal offences
Language Mild use of bad language
Theme Conflict, kidnapping, Escape, Revenge
Violence frequent and moderate violence
Drugs
Carlos and Pedro are both part of a large drug dealing cooperation and Lucy became aware
about government secret on how they are going to take them down so they take her to find
out the secret. Drugs wont he physically used or taken but they will be frequently a main
topic and around the action.
Imitable Behaviour
Criminal offences will be committed throughout the film such as drug dealing, kidnapping
and assault.

2. Language
Bad language will be rarely used throughout the film however they will be used in some
heated scene but only mild bad language.
Theme
Lucy and her sister will be kidnapped causing conflict between the drug dealers and Mason.
Mason will then set out on a mission to seek revenge upon the cooperation and help Lucy
and her sister escape from them.
Violence
There will be shootings throughout the film, hand to hand combat and the dealers will
violently interrogate Lucy’s sister to get the secret out of Lucy.
As a result of the context and tone of impact of our filmwe have decided to classify Lethal
Secret as a 15 due to the amount of violence and imitable behaviour that will be involved in
the film. This also doesn’t contradict our target audience as they are males over 35 years.