7.3 Regulation and Employment in the Media Sector
Following the ethical and lawful restrictions placed upon media products. Regulators enforce and maintain the standards put in place on behalf of the government. There are also independent regulators whose purpose is to ensure that fair impartial advice also available for the public.
Regulations are needed particularly in terms of controversial texts. Censorship is used to restrict potential harm that a controversial text may cause to the audience. But when censorship imposes itself over creativity and human rights the boundaries often come into questions.
Examples of regulators
BBFC-British board of film classification.
ASA-Advertising standards authority
Ofcom-Television, Radio and Telecommunications, Office for communication.
PPC-Press complaints commission.
PPC
is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of the newspapers and magazines and their websites.
Office of communications (Ofcom)
The communications regulator; regulates television and radio, fixed line telecoms and mobiles, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.
Department of culture, Media and sport
Department of the united kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in england, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK e.g. broadcasting. it also has responsibility for the creative industries (some joint with department for the business, innovation and skills) and tourism in England.
Advertising standards authority (ASA)
Self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry.
Non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation.
Code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances.
British board of film classification (BBFC)
non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry
responsible for the national classification of films
it has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the video game recordings act 2010
Different Job roles
PPC
is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of the newspapers and magazines and their websites.
Office of communications (Ofcom)
The communications regulator; regulates television and radio, fixed line telecoms and mobiles, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.
Department of culture, Media and sport
Department of the united kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in england, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK e.g. broadcasting. it also has responsibility for the creative industries (some joint with department for the business, innovation and skills) and tourism in England.
Advertising standards authority (ASA)
Self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry.
Non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation.
Code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances.
British board of film classification (BBFC)
non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry
responsible for the national classification of films
it has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the video game recordings act 2010
Different Job roles
- Accounts
- catering
- transport-transport manager, transport department
- production office
- casting
- Location manager
- Health and safety
- sales agent
Production officer.
Film production is a complex business which effectively requires the setting up,running, and closing-down of a substantially sized organisation, solely for the purpose of producing a single film.
Financial.
Finance is he science of funds managements. the general areas of finance are business finance, personal and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. the field of finance deals with time, money, risk and how and they are connected. it also deals with how money is used and create a budget.
Creative.
this part of the industry help to set the scene, and make the film accurate and realistic for the audience. in addition they also help to portray a genre within a film or a different form of media.
