BBFC and Film rartings

BBFC stands for 

British 

Board 

Film

Classification 

Its independent

Non governmental 

Set up in 1912 (Been around for 103 years)

Passed the video recording act in 1984

(When looking at game it will be PEGI)

BBFC.co.uk

Rating U:

• E.G: Up
• 4+ 
• Mild language
• Mild violence 

Rating PG:

• Parental guidance
• E.G: Saving Mr banks
•  Mild language: Shit, Son of a bitch
• cheeky but you wouldn't know it until your older and understand the things they are referring to.

Rating 12a&12:

• 12a: Aduly supervision
• 12: 12+
• Aloud to use fuck 
• Moderate language
• Occasional gory scenes 
• Minor drugs 

Rating 15:

• Frequent strong language 
• Sex scene but not aloud to show and parts apart from side boob.
• Aloud some discrimination
• Historical facts
• More extreme 
• Nudity is aloud but no strong detail
• Strong violence but not too graphic
• Horrors can be 15 but not sadistic or sexual affect  

Rating 18:

• Adults so 18+ (50 shades of gray)
• some may be harmful to adults
• No theme us prohibited for 18+
• Very strong violence 
• Very strong language
• Strong horror
• strong gore
• Real sex
• Strong/ detailed nudity/ explicit 
•  An 18 film/ video can contain real sex but not a porno
• Not promote drugs.

http://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/guide-recognizing-your-saints

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints 

director: Dito Montiel

status: 15 Uncut

Year: 2006

The main issues with this film were:

• Strong language
• Strong sex references
• Soft drug use
• Violence

They said that 'It rapidly became that a 15 classification would be necessary because of the regular use of strong language by the film's young characters.'

http://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/attack-block

Attack The Block

derector: Joe Cornish

Status: 15 Uncut

Year: 2011

The genre for this film is:

Comedy

Horror 

Science fiction

The things wrong with this film were:

There was over 50 uses of the word 'Fuck' 

Some uses of the word 'Motherfucker'

http://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/hot-fuzz

Hot Fuzz

director: Edgar Wright

Status: 15 uncut

Year: 2007

Things wrong with the film: 

Several uses of strong language

two used of very strong language 

Violence and Horror