Legal Restraints

One of the key restraints when making a film is the age rating system put in place to protect younger viewers from non-age appropriate content.

Age ratings were created because of the hypodermic needle theory, stating that young people can be easy influenced by the things they watching in films and on television. The use of age ratings in the film industry meant that young people would be protected from any particularly frowned upon contents that could possibly influence their actions, physically and verbally. 

Our film No Escape includes content of gory scenes and psychological trauma. 

The age rating system is:

This system shows that there are different groups of people allowed to watch different films through the teen years: young teens (12-14), mid teens (15-17) and late teens into adults (18+). 

A rating of 12 or 12 A means: 

 So, a film is rated 12A when an adult needs to accompany a 12- to the cinema to view the film and a 12 if it is advised that no under 12's watch the film at home. 

For a film to be rated 12 or 12A, it should comply with the following things: 

This means that it is possible for No Escape to be deemed 12A, however it says "horror sequences are not too frequent" and, being a short film of only five minutes, a lot of our film will be deemed as horror sequences. 

for a film to be deemed a 15, it should comply with the following:

This information shows that our film may not be influential (in the bad sense) enough to be deemed a 15, however, later on in the article it says this:

At the end of our film, there is a scene where Franklin (the main character) sees that he has killed himself. This could comply with the above information in that this could influential and therefore our film could be deemed a 15. 

After thoroughly studying the requirements of both of these age rating I've come to the conclusion that our film could fit into either of these categories and the only way to put it into one of these categories for sure is to re-evaluate the film's rating once it has been fully made to see where it stands against these categories then. 

(Information from http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/how-does-classification-work)