MY SHORT FILM

CONSTRUCTION: BBFC CLASSIFICATION

All UK films are given an age rating by the BBFC.

The BBFC's focus is on helping children and families choose well by providing them with the guidance they need to help them choose what’s right for them and avoid what’s not.

The BBFC’s classification standards reflect people’s current views and expectations and their decisions give due weight to what people find acceptable for each age rating.

The BBFC has two main principles. These include:

• To protect children and vulnerable adults from potentially harmful or otherwise unsuitable content.

• To help children and families choose what’s right for them and avoid what’s not.

For our short film Down and Out, I found a template of a BBFC rating that was used in an actual film. After finding an appropriate template, I imported it into Photoshop to edit the title of the film and the details about rating etc. 

We decided as a group that our short should be rated a 15 due to 'threat and horror' and also 'infrequent violence'.