Research and Planning - Film Certification (Regulation & Censorship)

For the film trailer we are creating, myself and Lucy have decided we will most likely rate our trailer a 15. This is due to the fact social realism films already have a limited audience than other types, therefore making it too old would even further isolate the audience. The plot of our trailer will be focusing on drugs, however the content will not be so explicit as to mean the age rating will have to be an eighteen. Many social realism films have a rating of fifteen, such as Shifty, this is due to the fact that there is not as much violence in scenes of an explicit nature and many film contain characters the age of the target audience.