Censorship means blocking explicit or socially unacceptable in the intrest of protecting the viewer/readers. Music videos can be censored due to swearing during the daytime, after 9:00pm swearing is permited,sex referances, drug referances, murder or death referances and any racist, ageist or any sexist material cane be censored.
Censorship in music videos has been widely debated, most artists want their songs to remain uncesored because they want to exppress themselves to the fullest extent. Sometimes they swear in the videos because there no other words to describe the situation, also it could be seen as them sharing their personalilty and lifestyle with the audience so they can build a closer relationship. For example Eminem raps about life, not about sex or drugs or killing people, and every so often he does swear but thats they way hes been brought up, its part of his culture. Also some artists argue that its up to the parents on what their children can watch, and most TVs come with parental control nowadays so theres no excuse why underage children should be watching it.
On the other hand some parents say there are other words they can use in songs rather than swear and make referances to sex. Also music plays a very large part in society nowadays, like in a teenagers upbringing, and with all these referances to sex, drugs and swearing they can be easily influenced, especialy if the artist is a very influential role model. Parents cant always be there to protect their children so its the companys resonsibility to prevent children from being influenced by bad language and inappropriate referances.
In my music video there will be no swearing, sexual, drug, murder referances because theres no need for it, Dangerously in Love is a love song, so any inappropriate referances will just ruin it. Also this song appeals to teenage girls so again theres no need to influence teenagers with pointless words and referances.
George, you have commented on some of the points raised from the censorship debate. However, to improve your grade you need to do the following:
ReplyDelete1) Explain what the censorship law is and provide some examples of music videos that have been banned
2) Explain in more detail how your music video will follow the censorship law, by relating directly to your planning ideas.