Research On Suitable Certificates.

Research On Certificate 15

In order to make our opening sequence suitable for our target audience, We researched the certificate 15, which is what we aim to achieve in our own production.

We chose this certificate because we are planning to base our clip on a horror/thriller movie. This could contain aggressive language and violent scenes with slight horror. With this in mind I found that in a 15-certificate movie there may be frequent use of strong language. But the strongest terms will be acceptable only where justified by the context. Continued aggressive use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable. This means we will be careful to keep strong language n moderation when we come to write our script. Another term and condition of a 15-certificate I researched was the rules for violence. I found that violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. Scenes of sexual violence must be discreet and brief.

These limitations seem to fit in with the ideas we have came up with so far for our opening sequence, however, we decided to research the 18-certificate as well because many films from the horror/thriller genre have an 18 certificate. I found that the 18 certificate has the same conditions with some alterations as it allows more scenes of a sexual nature and strong uses of language and violence. We then cam to the conclusion that a 15 Certificate would definitely be more suitable.