During the production of film taking into consideration the rating of the film is a very important process of the job, this is so not to offend any of the viewers and ensure the content is appropriate.
To make sure I did this job successfully I went onto the British Board of Film Classification.
As our film is a horror and therefore will inevitably include violence used to thrill the audience thus ruling out both both U and PG.
I then looked at 12 and 12a however again the classification said there should be little horror, bad language, no drug use and if there is it should not be dwelled on. Violence should also be kept to a minimal and in a thriller keeping to all these restrictions this would be hard to do without compromising the in depth story lines thrillers need to become successful and follow the conventions.
Moving on from this I then looked at 15 this became more promising for our film as strong language was allowed to be frequent within the film and the strongest of language is permitted if used in context, horror is again permitted, as is the use of drugs in the condition that they are not glamorised or promoted. Finally violence 'may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.'
The only problem I found with this rating was the rules on 'Imitable Behaviour.' Within the BBFC's guidelines it says that 'dangerous behaviour (suicide, hanging or self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied.' Although this would be fine for the opening sequence as a film as a whole this may be difficult obey, so I think that we should try to keep the self harming down to a minimal within the film so we don't have to push it up to an 18 rating and lose a large amount of viewers for Silent Mind.
In end I feel 15 rating would be best suited for our film.
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