BBFC

The British board of film classification (BBFC) is an organisation in charge of rating films and deciding on the film certificate e.g. U, PG, 12. In one of our lessons we watched some short sequences from several children's films and were asked to rate them ourselves. we looked at the specifications on the BBFC website (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/) and used them to help us. The first sequence we watched was from harry potter and the chamber of secrets. although it didn't contain any bad language or visible violence we rated this film as a PG. We did this due to the horror theme as we thought it might frighten younger viewers. sequence 2 was from Up. we decided to rate this film U as it didn't have anything that might be considered unsuitable for young children. the only thing that was noticeable was a small bit of slapstick violence but as this was not visible we thought it bad. Finally, sequence 3 was from watership down. this sequence shocked the whole class as there was a strong theme of violence, including blood when witnessing rabbits tear each other apart. we felt this film should have been at least a 12 but we were shocked to find it was a U.