Target Audience.

After thoroughly researching why films are given age ratings, what the age ratings mean and what can be shown in a film with a certain age rating, my group and I decided to give our film the age rating of 15. We decided this was most appropriate, as within a film given the certificate age of 15, there can be large amounts of strong language. Violence may be strong, however it must not dwell on infliction of pain or injury. Strong gory images are not likely to be acceptable. However, strong threat and horror is allowed, as long as there's no sustained focus on sadistic or sexual threat. 

Things which could be included in a 15 film are: 

• strong violence.
• drug taking.
• frequent strong language.
• portrayals of sexual activity.
• strong verbal references to sex.
• sexual nudity.
• brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence.
• discriminatory language or behaviour. 

We feel that a 15 will be appropriate for our film, as the theme of out thriller is stalker, and is therefore a psychological thriller. We feel that there wont be any strong language or sexual violence within the film, however while the psychological side effects wont be massive, we feel that any age rating under 15 would be inappropriate, as the theme of the film may be unsuitable for a young audience. We also feel that if the age rating was any lower than 12, we would be restricted with the contents we could include, and therefore the film would lose the theme of a thriller, and therefore wouldn't create the effect we intend to create. 

In some way or another, we would need to market our film, and therefore we have several ideas how we could do that. As our thriller is a 15, we feel that marketing our film through the internet and social media would be acceptable. We would initially try and attract our audience by advertising it on posters, or a trailer on youtube or TV. Also, by creating some sort of social media account to advertise our film would also be useful, as it's free and social media is a quick and easy way to get something known worldwide within minutes.