2. BBFC
•The British Board of Film Classification. An
independent and non-governmental
body that has classified cinema films
since 1912, and videos, DVD’s and Blu-rays
since the Video Recordings Act was
passed in 1984.
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3. Classifications
When deciding the classification of a media product,
the decision is decided through the BBFC’s published
and regularly updated guidelines. These guidelines are
carefully devised through extensive public consultation,
research and many years of experience from the BBFC.
The guidelines reflect the current views on British film,
DVD, Blu-ray and video games.
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7. Institutional Regulations
Our Production…
We have decided to rate our documentary a PG as it is an
informative documentary that talks about the music scene. We
want many people to watch the documentary, including some
older children so that they are knowledgeable on the unsigned
music scene. Giving our production a PG rating will give a
younger audience the chance to view it and possibly be
influenced and given inspiration to follow in the footsteps of our
interviewed artists. We plan to show our documentary on the BBC
channel at around 7pm. We will be showing it on BBC 4 as we will
be talking about BBC introducing in our documentary and would
fit well.
8. BBC Mission Statement
•BBC’s mission statement – ‘To enrich people’s lives
with programs and services that inform, educate
and entertain.
•BBC’s Vision – ‘To be the most creative
organisation in the world’.
They seek to be the most creative organisation.
We want to be able to give them that status with
our creative work and hopefully achieving this
goal. Their mission statement is clear and gives us
the opportunity to inform, educate and entertain.
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9. Why BBC?
•The branch BBC 4 would be perfect for the
showing of our documentary as there is a slight
change in audience type to what BBC
intentionally caters for. This audience is more
sophisticated and is the correct audience type for
the viewing of our documentary.
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10. Conventions of BBC Documentaries
CONVENTIONS:
•Academia – fits well as we want to educate our audience.
•Documentary is shown on this channel.
•Slightly Left wing
•Historical content
•Older audience
•Friday night music documentary night.
•BBC documentaries are usually shown on BBC 4. Due to the BBC
being a public service broadcasting channel it is therefore aimed
at a mass audience which wouldn't’t suit our target audience, and
therefore would want our documentary to be shown on BBC 4.
These documentaries are aimed at a slightly different and more
sophisticated audience.
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11. How does our production fit?
• BBC - ‘Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent,
impartial and honest’.
• ‘We respect each other and celebrate our diversity so that
everyone can give their best’.
• The troubles that some artists face when being unsigned is
something that many people aren't aware of. We believe that it
is a good way of making an audience aware of the struggles,
and it may influence people as it will give an understanding on
how to get started in the music scene. We want to show that it is
possible for anyone with musical talents.
• Our documentary is diverse as we show two sides of the music
scene, which we go into great detail in a short space of time.
Whilst being informative it is also gives the element of
entertainment and an insight into the lives of our interviewed
artists.
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