Exploring the conventions used within trailers and who the BBFC are:
BBFC: an independent, self-financing and not-for-profit media content regulator.
- protect the audience, and especially children, from content which might raise harm risks.
- empower the public, especially parents, to make informed viewing choices.
- recognise and respect the adult freedom of choice within the law.
- respond to and reflect changing social attitudes towards media content through proactive public consultation and research.
- provide a cost effect, efficient classification service within our statutory remit.
- work in partnership with the industry to develop innovative service models to provide content advice which support emerging media delivery systems.
- provide an effective service to enforcement agencies.
As a group, we established that we wanted our target audience to be between 18 – 25 years olds so, we want our teaser trailer to be rated an ‘18’.
BBFC guidelines: this is what is allowed in an 18 rated piece of media:
- Nudity
- Sex scenes are allowed however they must not be too graphic i.e. pornography.
- Violence is allowed.
- Crude language is permitted.
- Use/abuse of drugs is accepted to some extent.
For our group, we have to consider how far we want to go with blood, gore and violence.
An example of a film that displayed too many graphic scenes and blood/gore and violence was: The Human Centipede II (The Full Sequence). On June 6th 2011, the BBFC rejected the sexually violent and potentially obscene DVD, which menat that it couldn’t be legally be supplied anywhere in the UK.
The decision was taken by the Director, David Cooke and the Presidential Team of Sir Quentin Thomas, Alison Hastings and Gerard Lemos.
