A2 Media

Regulation is the act of having an aim to protect a group of people because of significant reasons such as their vulnerability or protecting yourself from seeing disturbing content. Regulation puts into practise the Moral Standards we each have and weather or not we disagree with what we should and shouldn’t be allowed to see. Regulation has changed over time; with some people agreeing that our society has become more desensitized because for example looking at the BBFC a British regulator for film we see how their control has stayed the same however the idea/aim of protection has changed, the BBFC with sex and violence has become more liberal when 40 years ago majority of what is now appropriate on screen would had never made it to the public eye. With TV the control has been lost in the sense of there now being more than over 100 channels compared to what TV started with which was less than 5 channels. British TV is regulated by OFCOM however in my opinion this regulator isn’t reall

The BBFC and PEGI are the two organisations who certificate and rate media products. The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) was set up in 1912 to protect the public from media material that may present harm risk. Originally the BBFC only classified cinema films until the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984 when it started regulating videos/DVDs. In 1984 the BBFC began to regulate video games as well. From 2003 the responsibility of regulating video games was passed from the BBFC to PEGI (Pan European Game Information). However, the BBFC will continue to classify all games that feature strong pornographic content and ancillary games attached to a wider, primary linear submission. The BBFC are an non-government regulatory body to which films are submitted for classification based on their content. They aim to protect the public by providing them with information that allows them to make a more educated decision when selecting a media products. The BBFC also provide v