When a film is revised because of the content it shows. A film may either be banned or asked to be cut several times before the BBFC are happy with it.
The reason why the ban, censor or cut it is because the BBFC wants the film to be watchable to viewers - depending on the rating.
What do you mean by banned and cut?
Banned - when a film is taken away from cinema viewing completely due to indecent, harmful or offensive material.
Cut scene - when a film is edited or has had scenes taken out of it to make it appropriate for viewing.
What is their role?
Their role is to protect the public from anything that's offensive or could cause any harm to the viewers.
What does BFFC stand for and what are they?
BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification. They are a highly expert and experienced regulator, one of their role is to serve a social function in society by giving advices to protect the viewers and provide public information. They must make an appropriate decisions to protect vulnerable viewers from films. While keeping inappropriate scenes from viewers (those who are under 18) they also, at the same time, respect adult freedom of choice.
What decisions do you they need to make?
Age certificate for a film. They will either need:
- Ban it
- Cut it
- or censor it
After watching the film, the BBFC will either decide on those three depending on their view of it for example:
If the movie contained violence and sex and nudity, the BBFC will most likely to decided to rate it an 18 - meaning that only adults can watch it.
If the film contained only bad language (depending on how many 'swear words' it has ) then it's most likely that the BBFC will decide it to rate it 12 because it doesn't have anything that the 18 rating films has such as violence, sex and nudity etc.
List of things that can/get censored
- Violence
- Graphic representation and realism
- Corrupt the young
- Sex and nudity
- Controversy and the press
- Sex and nudity
- Sexual violence
- Religion
- Class
- Language
- Sock
- Drug abuse
- Culture
- Race
- True events
The seven age rating is: U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18 and R18. The rating of 12A is different to rating 12, 12A must be with an adult or have permission to watch from an adult and the difference between 18 and R18 is that the rating 18 is only suitable to adults and R18 is strictly only for adults.
Here's an example:
This film is called Seven and it's about two detectives along with a rookie and a veteran - their job is to find and hunt a serial killer, who somehow, is able to use the seven deadly sins. The rating for this film is 18 - meaning that it's suitable for adults, this is rated 18 because it contains Sex and Nudity, Violence and gore, alcohol/drugs/smoking, profanity and frightening/intense scenes - all this cannot be in any other films that's under 18.
This is only half complete?
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