Age Certificate

For our film product it is important to have an age certificate as all films shown in the UK need an age rating by law and therefore it is important that we replicate elements that real-life media products have to include.

when releasing our film we would have to make sure that our film has a BBFC age rating symbol from one of the following below ;

For our film opening "Trapped" we have chosen to use the 15 age certificate. My reason for this being the most suitable choice is due to the fact that our opening is centre around murder and has graphic content like blood which is quite gory and would require a more older audience rather than young children, which movies are typically labelled U, PG,12A and 12. On the other hand I would not rate it 18 age certificate as it does not contain any explicit sex,strong language supernatural horror or drug use therefore would not be an appropriate age certificate.

Moreover, the themes that our film opening is centered around is of interest to young teens and young adults and movies such as "Paranormal Activity" and "The Purge" have also been give the same age certificate by the BBFC, so having researched films within the same genre I think that this is the most suitable rating for our film.

As well as  considering a movie like "The woman In Black" it was given an age certificate of 12, which led to it receiving a lot of criticism from its audience.