In part to our media project in creating a teaser trailer we are also doing media regulation which is also very important in our Media A2 course media regulation consist of a variety of different media umbrellas which come together as a conglomerate there are a different companies in different countries which specify which age restriction will be put on a film depending on the amount of violence, sex, drugs etc, that the movie contains which will be elaborated on but the first company that will be looked at which is the one based in U.k is the BBFC which stands for British Board Of Classification this is a panel of highly trained individuals that judge what age restriction a film will be on.
There have been many complaints that have been recieved by the BBFC with the general public complaining about movies on recent movie that certain precautions had to be taken a movie " The Devil Inside" were cuts had to be made is because it contained strong supernatural horror, bloody images and strong language.
The BBFC is an independent media content regulator, they are a highly experienced regulator they aim to protect children from content that may be also to empower the public mainly the parents who deem fit to complain if the content of a certain programme is to explicit.
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