The Ninja Kid - BBFC classification

The BBFC classification we are aiming our film 'The Ninja Kid' at is PG (parental guidance). This means that the film should be suitable for the general viewing of all children, although some scenes may be inappropriate and unsuitable for children that are under the age of 8. The only content portrayed in our film that could possibly be thought of as unsuitable is the nature of it, which consists of a young kid inspired by his hero, trying to follow his dream in becoming a professional martial artist.

The opening sequence of our film that we are creating will be suitable for all to view. This is because it contains no strong or bad language, no nudity and only mild violence because in his mind he is challenging people to martial arts fights, and this is shown by him practicing his fighting skills and his nunchucks skills into mid air in his bedroom. The whole film is suitable for all children and the only part that may be deemed unsuitable is the low level theme of violence throughout the film when he fights. We haven't given this the U classification because the theme of mild violence throughout may be unsuitable for young children under the age of 4 years old, so we believe the classification that best fits our film is PG. Our opening sequence consists main of him jumping around his room with homemade nunchucks showing off his moves with them, and then prancing up and down punching and kicking. It is clear that they aren't actually nunchucks, and this is because they are made out of newspaper. This is obvious in our opening sequence. The reason we have made the fake nunchucks is because we want to keep the the innocence and low level of violence in the film whilst at the same time maintaining the realism.

This film will not exceed criteria of the PG classification because it doesn't contain any content that could be thought of as unsuitable by anybody looking to watch a film in the PG classification. Because of all the reasons mentioned above, we believe that the opening sequence of our film best fits in with the PG criteria, and that is why we have classified it as that.