During the process of planning our media product we needed to take into account who we were targetting as the audience of our piece and what age bracket would fit into regulations whilst still allowing it to be a popular product. Due to the genre we were using (Thriller) it was obviously never going to fit into the U to 12 age bracket due to the content involving murder. We needed to weigh up whether it was a 15 or an 18 aged film. The involvement of weapons is obviously something which lends it to being involved in the higher age bracket, the murder at the end furthers this. But due to the lack of any blood and not visually seeing the killing we feel it end up being a 15 certificate film.
Before any film is able to be released the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rate your film based on its contents and give it an age bracket so that it cannot be supplied to anyone below this due to its unsuitablility. These ages range from a U-(universal suitable to anyone) to 18-(only suitable to people over 18yrs and over). This prevents children or any other people that arent suitable seeing films they shouldnt.
I feel that a 15 cetificate for our film would not only be suitable but most beneficial profit wise. Although it does prevent a huge amount of people being able to see the film it is still aimed at teenagers who we were aiming at from the start. It doesnt prevent most teenagers from buying and seeing our product so generates a lot more profit for us than if it was an 18 for example. The main age group for the thriller genre is of the older teenagers, 15 and above so this only makes our product look even more appealing.
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