A2 Media

 How effective is Film and TV regulation in the Netflix era? The Film and and TV regulation is starting to have a bit of impact on the Netflix era as “ major players such as BT Vision and Netflix are using the ratings.”   Netflix are starting to use and apply the certificates created by the BBFC, this shows a act of cooperation however you could argue are they that effective? Moreover, if Netflix produced content which the BBFC do not agree should be classified because it is “distasteful” Netflix has the right to still post the media.   So this shows us how un-effective TV and film regulation is because even thought they may agree with some ideas Netflix haven't signed a contract with the BBFC  which forces them to follow the so the BBFC classification BBFC now don't have the authority to control what is exposed to the British Public it challenges all the regulation they do for the British public because they can find whatever media is banned or not

Should society or the individual or an educated elite decide what is a appropriate level of sex and violence to expose children to   I think that an educated elite should decide on what the appropriate level of sex and violence there should be ( which in my opinion should be the least amount possible) because they have a better understand of what children think like as they would have studied the way a child ,mind works and at what age they start to understand things on a deeper level where they know the difference from the right and wrongs by themselves. However the counter argument could be that children eventually will be exposed to this when they get older so is there a point and there is because the child will eventually grow up and they probably will eventually see these things so why must they be exposed to this so early on, there’s no rush for them to see graphic things as this could lea to the child evolving damage tot there mental health which will be harder to confr

Regulation is a "rule or directive made and maintained by an authority." It is the action of keeping some content away from specific people e.g. children because it is not suitable. In addition this it is also the action of whether or not allowing the content to viewed in a specific area the being a country (where rules of what is seen, heard is very strict) or public areas where the message to some people could be disturbing e.g. having a poster of the result of smoking impacted the lungs outside a primary school it wouldn't be appropriate.  The teams who should be regulating should be experienced and well established companies who take everything into consideration. An example of a well established organisation is the BBFC, they were founded in 1912 so have a lot of experienced fro last mistakes to the mistakes from others.  the guidelines for regulating are very open to the public as every 4 to 5 years the BBFC  carry out a major public consultation expertise to wha