GOT podcast notes

•  Most common classification issue; Strong language, sex, violence, sexual violence, gore, horror, threat, nudity 
• majority of episodes are classified as a 15
• thirteen episodes are 18, one due to a sex scene, two due to sexual violence, four for very strong language, and six for violence 
• Guidelines say violence should not dwell on the infliction of injury
• most violence is played by reaction shots rather than capturing the actual pain inflicted e.g. reaction in face would be shown rather than a knife stabbing into someone.
• limited focus on wound detail, more focus on it would lead to a higher age rating. Eg pregnant woman being stabbed in stomach, focus on this would be brief and undetailed (this episode went from a 15 to an 18 due to the graphics and the focus on the actual injury )
• guidelines say 'very strong gory images are unlikely to be acceptable' e.g. man holding onto intestines, pushing organs back inside- this would be an 18
• historical or fanatical settings can lead to a higher age rating
• focus on gore, blood, bodily organs creates cumulative feel of bloody violence, resulting in and 18 rating.