Target Audience and Ratings

Our thriller will not be aimed at younger children as it includes unsuitable content such as suicide but also because the plot line is grim and chi8ldren would generally struggle to understand it, let alone enjoy it. We looked on the BBFC website and after reading through the classifications for all ratings, we decided a 15 would be the best for our thriller as, although it does not include strong language or scenes of a sexual nature, it does include violence and adult themes that would not be suitable for a 12 year old to view. This rating is appropriate to out target audience of older teens and adults so we feel it is suitable. Popular thrillers such as Taken (2008) have ratings of 15, this is useful information for us because movies like Taken have similar content to what we plan to include in our thriller