Initial Planning - Classification

As our film is a psychological thriller we knew we would have a high classification due to the typical conventions and themes such as mental health that will appear in our opening. Our film will demonstrate many psychological issues as well as an implies murder so therefore it will not be suitable for a young audience. When researching classifications on the BBFC website we realised the age rating 15 would be most suitable for our film.

The following elements are typically seen in a 15 rated film:

• Strong violence
• Frequent strong language (e.g f**k)
• portrayals to sexual activity
• Strong verbal references to sex
• sexual nudity
• brief scenes of sexual violence and verbal references to sexual violence
• discriminatory language or behaviour 
• drug taking

Although many of these different elements do not appear within our film, we will be including some such as strong acts of violence and explicit language. We have chosen against classifying our film as an 18 as we won't present elements such as sexual violence or strong portrayals of sexual activity within our film. This would also limit the range of our target audience. Its also very common for psychological thrillers to be rated a 15 an example being Limitless.