Understanding the regulation of the Creative Media Sectors

What is the BBFC?

The BBFC is a national Film and Video website, which provides the viewers with age ratings of the films, etc. they are searching, for example; PG, 12A, and 15, etc. Moreover, the BBFC deal with the age ratings of all films - so that they are getting watched by the right people. An example can be, if a film was an 18, you wouldn't want anyone under that age watching because of the inappropriate language and violent, etc. used throughout. Also, they collect this type of information through primary research and place them in reports for you to look at. This type of information is also formatted in Quantitative Research, which is numbers.

As you can see from the image on the right, it shows you the different age ranges typically used on movies. These ages shows who should be watching the movie in question, for example Bad Neighbours. which is aimed at a 15.