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Media Regulations

What is a regulation?

Media regulations are rules that protect the public interest and what certain audiences can and can’t view. Media regulation is targeted mostly at press, television and radio. These regulations are usually agreed between media or public organizations.
The BBFC
The bbfc is an organization which is on control of the regulations put on things like movies and music videos, this is because content can be put on the internet by anyone and is hard for the bbfc to stop people uploading what they want on the internet.  Due to this anyone is able to report content which is on the internet if they believe that it shouldn’t be seen by younger viewers.

Internet regulations

When it comes to content on the internet there isn’t actually and official regulation, however there are ‘comment sections’ and viewers have the power to report the content.

TV station regulations
It is essential that TV stations have to have standards and the government or court are able to place reporting restrictions on a case.

A banned music video

The original music video for Robin Thickle’s  ‘Blurred Lines’ is an example of a music video which did have to be regulated by the BBFC. The original music video consisted of women without clothing on and suggested that the content was too inappropriate and wasn’t allowed to be shown on TV as well as online. However, after these regulations were put in place a ‘clean’ version of the video was brought out and was basically the same however, the actors were wearing clothing, meaning it is now allowed to be shown on TV and the internet.

Feedback from our one minuet video

Before the summer break, me and my group created a short one minuet music video to practice for our main one. However, we have just received feedback from it. Feedback is good because we are then able to reflect on it and ensure that we don’t repeat the mistakes we’ve made. For example, during our video all of us lip sync throughout however in our main video we are ensuring that only one person is lip syncing throughout to ensure it’s consistent.

final decision!

Our group found it really hard to settle for one song, and after researching for what seemed like hours on YouTube and Spotify we finally decided to do the song ‘Take A Walk’ by Passion Pit. We also considered other songs that were much different, for example, ‘We’re Not The Same’ by Wolf Alice which is a slow song, we decided against this song as it was slightly shorter than the other two and we didn’t feel like there was a lot we could do with the song. We also consider the song ‘Do You Think Of Me’ by Meisha B, which is more up tempo in comparison to the Wolf Alice song. However, in the end we decided ‘Take a Walk’ by Passion Pit. This song comes under the genre/ sub-genre pop/electro pop and is much more upbeat. We decided on this as we thought that is was a much more happy song and we had a lot more different ideas for this video. However we did come across some problems, for example, the singer is a male and the lyrics can be seen as quite repetitive which could be a task to think of different ideas for the video, however, I will get back in a week or so and inform you what decision we’ve make about the problem. here’s the song: