15 and 18 rated film

15

This film is not suitable for any under the age of 15. People under the age of 15 can buy or rent a 15 rated film.

Discrimination

The media text can’t encourage discriminatory language or behaviour.

Drugs

Drugs can be shown as a whole but you cannot promote or encourage the use of drugs,this includes alcohol abuse. If it is in the film it is never unlikely to pass as a 15

Horror

Horrors can be “threat” and “menace” but sexualised and  sadistic is unacceptable.

Imitable behaviour

self harming should be shown in detail as it could be influential on this age group. Easily accessible weapons can’t be glamorised.

Language

Strong language can be used if in the right context.

Nudity

Nudity is allowed in educational sense and in a non sexual sense.

Sex

Sexual activity is allowed but aslong as it is not in detail.

Violence

violence can we strong but not in infliction. Sexual violence is allowed but mildy. The strongest “gorey” violence is unlikely to be acceptable.

18:www.bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202009.pdf

“• where the material is in breach of the criminal law,

or has been created through the commission of a

criminal offence

• where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to

risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour,

to society – for example, any detailed portrayal of

violent or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use,

which may cause harm to public health or morals.

This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised

violence which might, for example, eroticise or

endorse sexual assault

• where there are more explicit images of sexual

activity which cannot be justified by context. Such

images may be appropriate in ‘R18’ works, and in

‘sex works’ (see below) would normally be confined

to that category.

In the case of video works (including video games),

which may be more accessible to younger viewers,

intervention may be more frequent than for cinema films.

Sex education at ‘18’

Where sex material genuinely seeks to inform and

educate in matters such as human sexuality, safer

sex and health, explicit images of sexual activity may

be permitted.

Sex works at ‘18’

Sex works are works whose primary purpose is sexual

arousal or stimulation. Sex works containing only material

which may be simulated are generally passed ‘18’. Sex

works containing clear images of real sex, strong fetish

material, sexually explicit animated images, or other

very strong sexual images will be confined to the ‘R18’

category. Material which is unacceptable in a sex work

at ‘R18’ is also unacceptable in a sex work at ‘18’.”