Who would be the audience? EVALUATION QUESTION 4

 The audiance is a subject that involves a lot of researching as well as thinking. If you rate a film with the wrong age limit, it might influence the person either in a good way or a bad way. Not to forget, there are also different types of people. Some might be more informed or practicaly living the narrative of our opening sequence. Some on the other hand might be living a life that don't involve drugs. this in many cases could be very informative but only for certain age group. Obviously the theme is not suitable for small children, but I am thinking maybe the age group of 15+ or maybe even 12+ in some cases. But as the film might be viewed by a 12 year old that could get bad influence from it, we have decided for the sake of childrens safety to rate our film 15+.


In 1948, the government appointed a Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema (the Wheare Committee), whose report in 1950 (Cmnd 7945) failed to find any clear evidence of the 'harmful influences' that the cinema exerted over impressionable young people. Nonetheless, in January 1951 the BBFC responded to Wheare's recommendation by replacing the H certificate with an X certificate for films to which children under 16 would not be admitted. The change was relatively subtle but showed up over time: the emphasis was no longer on dramatic 'horror' but on sex and violence.
The next revision in the classification scheme came into effect on 1 July 1970. Four certificates were now to be employed:
U    Universal admission;
A    Children aged five and over admitted unaccompanied but parents are advised that the film may contain material they would prefer the children under 14 not to see;
AA    No admission for children under 14;
X    No admission for children under 18.
The age of majority in the UK was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1970. But although it could be argued that X now genuinely meant 'adult', youths aged 16 and 17 were overnight excluded from the most restrictive classification of films. For a film to be granted an X certificate could henceforth remove it from part of the key age group for cinemagoing. Saturday Night Fever was originally classified X but reclassified as A following cuts.
http://www.terramedia.co.uk/reference/law/UK_media_law/cinema_and_film_laws.htm

Films, DVDs, video games and computer games

The legislation mentioned below, which controls the sale and supply of videos, is currently unenforceable due to a legal technicality but we have kept the information available until the matter is resolved. Further information is available from the British Board of Film Classification and the British Video Association.
The Video Recordings Act 1984:
It is an offence to supply or offer to supply a video recording to any person who has not attained the age specified on the recording. This legislation applies to video films, video games and computer games.
It is a defence to show that you neither knew nor had reasonable grounds to believe that:

• the classification certificate contained the statement in relation to the specified age or
• the person concerned had not attained the specified age or
• that you had reasonable grounds to believe that the supply was or would have been an exempted supply, as defined by legislation. If you sell video films by retail you will not be dealing with exempted supplies.

The age restrictions are 12,15 and 18.
The maximum fine for selling or renting an age restricted cassette/DVD to a child under the specified age is £5,000 and/or up to 6 months imprisonment.
Restricted 18 video cassettes and DVDs can be supplied only in licensed sex shops to persons 18 years of age and older.

http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/lookupwebpagesbytitle_rtf/what+age+restrictions+are+there+on+productsq?opendocument#Films


 Basically as the law states, it depends on what the movie contains that could influence the children. Sometimes children still can get a hold of media that they wish to watch online or just by staying up very late at night, so by having age restriction, we are hoping that it will stop influencing children and it will stop them from seeing the film, well atleast the majority of children.
 Our film would contain strong language, crime. This is why it has 15+ as the restriction age. We just didn't want to risk it by influencing children into having to find out too much of information at young age.

By: Simona Larka 9575