Rating Thriller After Filming

After the finished product was revealed, the 15 rating was confirmed to the group. The intense music and confusing adult themes are key iconography towards the certificate rating. Throughout what we saw we didn't see any strong evidence of 18 certified related iconography, thus we decided to keep with our previous rating. this turned out the be useful in the case that we din't waste time arguing being of explicit material.

However, because this was only the opening two minutes of our thriller, we don't know what the rest of the thriller will look like. But because our sub-genre is psychological, 18 related iconography shouldn't overburden the rest of the thriller, as we must keep the audience interested in the film, not the violence/sex etc. But because of the lack of dialogue in the opening that we filmed, we are confident to think that the rest of the thriller we would've made would have the iconography of a rated 15 film.

On the official BBFC website the official critiria for a 15 rated film is “strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualise”. We felt as a group that this was a good as the 'strong threat' or 'menace' isn't used in the way described by the BBFC, the rating we gave was indeed a correct one from the start and even after the extensive research conducted on it.

- David Huxford