Legal and Ethical

Legal and Ethical issues related to my thriller opening

Legal
Product placement
There will be no product placement throughout the movie. Product placement is when films include specific products (Such as James Bonds's Aston Martin) and advertise them generally for money.

Certification (BBFC)
The opening sequence of the film would be rated U due to the fact that no language, sex, nudity, drugs etc is shown. The film as a whole would more than likely be rated 15 as frequent use of strong language will be used and violence may be strong. Filming of the violence in the rest of the thriller will not focus heavily on blood, gore and injuries so we feel that the 18 rating was too much.  We thought that we would try to keep the film into a lower classification as possible in order to be appeal to a wider variety of audience. I gathered information of certification guidelines from the BBFC website.

Copyright
Their are no copyright issues within the Thriller opening sequence. However the script will be copyrighted by us and all of the work we did was our own (for example we did not use a copyrighted music track)

Ethical
Drugs
Drugs are not used or referenced at all during our thriller opening sequence. if we did reference drugs we would not be allowed to encourage drug misuse within the rating of a 15 film. also easily accessible drugs such as aerosols is unlikely to be acceptable

Sex
No sex or nudity is shown throughout the film, sex has a huge impact of how a film is rated. if the thriller did include a sex scene it would have to be rated 18.

Racism
Racism is unacceptable and unnecessary. It definitely will not be used in our thriller.