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When looking into who we wanted to target our film at it was a hard job for us to decide on what we wanted to certify our film as. With research into different films that are of a similar genre to ours, most were of the 12A/PG 13 rating which showed us that this was the sort of thing we should aim for. After much talk about whether to make it a 12A or a 15 we decided on 12A because it meant we could widen our audience as both adults and children can view the film thus resulting in us getting the highest revenue possible. We then had to look at who we wanted to target our film at, be it girls/boys or both. We eventually decided that in order to make our film as popular as possible then we needed to make our film as broad as we could, meaning that we should make our film targeted at both sexes. This was one aspect of the filming process that worried me slightly as I thought that it meant us having to try and appeal to such a large number of people, all with different interests, that we would lose some of the meaning and individuality of our film. However after much debate we decided that we could make the film likable to both genders by using a mainly boyish genre and theme of our play but by juxtaposing it with the female main character that would attract girls to watch it as they would feel they may be able to relate to her in some ways.