Planning - Age Certificate

When looking at the BBFC's website we found that there were various aspects that they consider when rating films. Below is the criterion for a film with an age certificate of 15.

We have decided that 'Fixation' would be likely to have a 15 age certificate, due to intense levels of disturbance, presentations of threat and violence and also because of the psychological twist in the narrative - which in research I found are the conditions of 15 rated films. I think that if this film were to have a younger age rating it would not be suitable for the audience as a younger audience could dwell on psychological aspect which they may then copy. Furthermore I also believe that if it received an age rating of 18 it would exclude a large portion of our target audience which is between the ages of 15-30 year of age. Therefore by giving our film an age certificate of 15 we can effectively target our audience whilst including various conventions of the psychological thriller genre.