What is censorship?
Censorship is the act of altering words, statements or visuals in order to conform with and abide by the rules and laws of society.
Explicit content & Explicit Lyrics
There is a difference between explicit content and Lyrics. The explicit content means what the video contains, such as the images that the video might have, whereas the explicit lyrics means the music lyrics such as the meaning behind the video.
Things get censored
- nudity/sexual content Skepta - All over the house
- language
- drugs and solvent abuse
- violence
- religious abuse
- Graphic representation and realism
- Things that can corrupt the young
- Controversy and the press
- Sexual violence
- Class violence
- Language
- Things that may shock the audience
Lyric and radio censorship
Lyrics on radios can be cut out, especially lyrics that may effect the audience in any way such as swearing. The radio has discovered many ways in which they can allow the lyrics to no longer be there by...
-Blanking
- Repeating/Replacing
- Disc scratching
- Bleeping
In this track to cover up the inappropriate language they decided to use replacements of words.
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
Children will be protected from harmful content, also children are prevented from copy cat behaviour
people will be protected emotionally and physically
promotes political world
Restrains Vulgarity
The effects that violence can cause is stopped.
Disadvantages
The artist will not gain as many viewers
The artist is not able to completely be the person they want to be due to this restriction
People have the right to express themselves and also the right to hear.
freedom of speech is compromised
it allows the government to control what is heard by the people
people are not allowed to express their creativity.
Conclusion
When creating my video I certainly need to consider this because I have ideas which may include physical harming in the video that may disturb the viewer. I am planning to do Ella Eyre - we don't have to take our clothes off, this is under the pop genre. Now that I am more aware of the audience and their safety I am planning to keep them safe by keeping on account the things that I show on my videos and making it audience friendly. I think that censorship is needed as lyrics especially now a days are a lot more raw and real than back in the day, so to keep the separation between kids innocence and images and lyrics that can be seen or heard in certain music videos I think that its good to have censorship.
Basic, but proficient at times. A clear understanding of censorship. The list that is controversial is provided. Some critical discussion applied.
ReplyDeleteTo improve;
-provide some videos that have been censored according to the list your provide
-what technique was used in your Chris Brown and Tyga example
-think about more advantages and disadvantages
-what are your opinions on censorship?