Age Rating Change

Unfortunately, due to the nature of our film, we are going to have to use the age rating of '15'. This will drastically decrease our target audience and could result in the film not getting the views we had hoped.

We realised that, throughout the rest of the film, the violent and brutal nature of the murders increase, and this would not obide by the BBFC regulations of a 12A film.

The following points have been taken from the BBFC website, and state the scenes you may witness in a 15 aged rated films:

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

In our film, there will be some strong violence in a struggle scene with the murderer and the victim, infrequent strong lanuage mainly from the detectives themselves, discriminating langauge and behaviour will be used during the interview scenes with some suspects, and some drug use will be shown, but only briefly.

The above scenes increase the age rating of our film from a '12A' to a '15', but this will not effect our film or how we shoot or edit it, because this category is quite lenient towards what the content involves, including the amount of violence.