Certificate Rating - Alex Lloyd, Jack Storer and Caroline Robertson

We have had a discussion on what certificate rating we would have for our short film, we have always planned to target our film towards a late teen audience, film literates who enjoy social realism films. We planned to certify our short as a 15 but after much discussion we have realised that in BBFC's opinion it would be seen differently. "Moderate language is allowed. The use of strong language (for example 'fuck') must be infrequent." - BBFC. This was on their definition of a '12' rating, we wanted to know what ratings would stand for this language due to the word 'fuck' being heard once throughout the short, now that we know a '12' can include this language we have rethought our certification.

Looking at our audience feedback, much of the useful information and reviews we have received are from those younger than '15'. This gives us more evidence in why we should have our film as a '12'.