Investigation into Age Ratings in film.

Investigation into Age Ratings in film.

 

As are film is about football hooligans and football violence the first age rating I researched was 15 on the bbfc ( British Board of Film Classification) website. The information it had on 15 age ratings were that films with this rating may contain ; strong violence, frequent strong language such as f***,  portrayals of sexual activity, discriminatory language or behaviour and drug taking. The main factor that would come into our intro may be violence and the bbfc response to the question “Can there be strong violence?” was as follows Yes, at 15 violence may be strong. It should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury, however, and the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable.

 

Next I looked at the bbfc guidelines for 18 age ratings, the things expected to be in 18 rated films are as follows; very strong violence, frequent very strong language such as c***, strong portrayals of sexual activity, strong horror, strong blood and gore, discriminatory language and behaviour and strong blood and gore. There view on violence in 18 rated films is similar to 15s except the strongest gory images are permitted to this category and also drugs can be shown but must not be promoted.