G321 - Film Certification

For our film we have decided to certify our film a 12a. This is a suitable certification because there will be minor sexual activity, minor violence and occasional soft swearing. If we rated our film any higher than this we would limit our audience figures and we wouldn't make as much money which isn't good seeing as we are an independent company and we need as much money as we can get to be able to compete with the mainstream companies. If we rated the film any lower, we wouldn't be able to include as much material for the audience so our older target audience of older males would be bored watching a 'children's' film.

 

 Other Romantic-Comedies such as Shallow Hal (Has a similar target audience to our film) have this film certification. Other Romantic-Comedies have many more sexual references throughout, For Example Friends With Benefits is a film actually about two peoples sexual relationship. Friends With Benefits was a 15 because of this difference. Not many Romantic-Comedies will be above a 15 because they are never incredibly gory, overly sexual and do not use many swear words. They are never below a 12A because the target audience for a Romantic-Comedy would not be kids under 12, this genre would not interest them.

By Charlotte Hester