Certificate research, 'We need to talk about Kevin'

The BBFC app

As we were going to see the film, 'We need to talk about Kevin,' it was a good idea to do some research on it specifically for the certificate because it is good information for when we decided on our short film certificate. Therefore, I downloaded to app for the BBFC. The print screens show my process of doing this and also shows the information I discovered.

From this, I gained information on the properties of the film for instance, its runtime and the date it was passed by the BBFC. However, its certificate was important as it's a 15 and this app showed the reasons why they had passed it as that, 'Contains strong language, once very strong, strong sex & sexualised nudity,' therefore the BBFC guidlines explain it is too explicit to show to anyone under the age of 15. Furthermore, it also states that this film was passed uncut therefore they didn't need to edit any of the film out to make it to a 15 certificate.

This is the guidlines for a 15 rated film. From this research on the actual BBFC website I can clearly see why the film we watched was a 15 but also there is extensive research on this as some of the elements in the guidlines weren't contained in the film.
This is helpful to us when creating our short film because with this and other certificate research it will help us divise a certificate for our film. This is a result of being more familiar and aware of the guidlines even though our initial idea was to have our short film at a PG.