BBFC Seminar

In the afternoon, we returned to school to attend a seminar given by a BBFC spokesperson. She was one of the people who classified films. She said that on average, she'd watch 5 hours and 41 minutes of footage every day, and that the genres and type of films she came across were completely random. She later went through the guidelines that she had to always follow, which we had already learnt. She showed us various clips from films, and one was 'The Expendables' where one of the guys is seen to cut off someone else's arm. This was a clear example of the producers dwelling on the violence, and the BBFC had asked them to re-edit the the clip. The edited clip worked just as fine, and was more appropriate for the viewing audience, as it was given a classification rating of 15.