How video games are regulated

The GRA - the games rating authority rate the game according to the level of violence in the game.

Video games are rated by a 3 stage process, questionaire, examination, game examination.

PEGI- European classification group, come up with the certificates. (Not legally enforceable in all countries).

2012 - PEGI ratings become legally enforceable for people buying games.

It is different from the regulation of other industries such as the press as the press does not have any age rating and the games do. According to what age rating the game has been classified under, it determines the amount of violence and abusive language they're allowed.

Digipak front cover draft

The Riot album cover is what inspired us when we were researching album covers, we really liked the idea of how they're surrounded by words however we expanded on the idea and made our own for our own band.

This is what i came up with for our first handwritten draft of our digipak front cover. The title and the writing around the characters is hand written as i felt like i could use my skills to achieve the messy font. I also drew two lines under the band name as i felt it looked effective. We have also done another version where we have done the writing on photoshop. We decided that we wanted to have our band name (CURE) as the main title and mohammed and I decided we should turn the E the opposite way as we can create the band a symbol that symbolises them.

Mohammed came up with the first photoshopped front cover where all the writing is edited on and he decided that the cover could look more effective in black and white characters and the background in colour. We

Digipak front cover draft

The Riot album cover is what inspired us when we were researching album covers, we really liked the idea how they're surrounded by words however we expanded on the idea and made our own for our own band.

This is our first draft of our digipak front cover. The writing was handwritten we have also done another version where we have done the writing on photoshop. We decided that we wanted to have our band name (CURE) as the main title and have the album name around them to show the album name swell as the band name.

Audience theory

HYPODERMIC NEEDLE - EFFECTS THEORY - 1920s - FRANKFURT SCHOOL
Passive audience - injecting ideas into masses - film
Bobo doll - Bandura -1961 - Clockwork Orange and violence

CULTIVATION THEORY - GEORGE GARDNER -1980
Passive audience - influences audience over time with repeated messages - reinforces behaviour - advertising and television (people who watch soaps think there is more divide)

TWO STEP FLOW - audiences receives messages via an influencer - e.g. A film critic persuades you to go see a film

RECEPTION THEORY -Stuart Hall - texts are encoded with messages by the producer and are read differently by audiences, depending on their social and cultural background. Preferred, Negotiated and Oppositional are the 3 responses they can have. E.g. in a soap opera if someone sympathetic is having an affair, a religious viewer will have a resistant/oppositonal reading to this.

USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORY - audiences use texts to gratify needs - e.g..; Diversion, Escapism, Information, Pleasure, Comparing relationships and lifestyles with one's own (Personal Identity), sexual stimulation

MASLOW'S HIERARCY OF NEEDS - audience's needs are met by media texts - e.g. some adverts for cars promise safety; alcohol adverts usually promise friendship; aftershave adverts promise sexual intimacy etc.

BBFC

1) A brief history of the BBFC - how it was founded, how it's role has changed.
2) What case studies (key films or events) have caused these changes at the BBFC?
3) What the key pieces of legislation are that govern how the BBFC works as a regulator.
4) How the BBFC is different today than it was at other times in it's history.
5) How does the BBFC classify and rate films today? (What are the certificates and what is allowed in each)
6) What challenges the BBFC has going forwards, how it's role has changed?

The British Board of Film Censorship (BBFC) was founded in 1912 as a trade body, administered by the Kinematograph Manufacturers Association, itself formed in 1911, to avert threats of statutory censorship. Over the years the BBFC role has changed as it used to be 'The British Board of Film Censorship' to 'The British Board of Film Classifications' in the 1980s. This shows hows their role changed as they're not a fatherly operation but whereas now they take the view of society in rating films. The BBFC is a trusted guide to media content. Working as an independent, self-financing and not-for-profit media content regulator, the BBFC operates transparent, consistent and trusted co-regulatory and self-regulatory classification and labelling systems in the UK. 


The BBFC's mission:

• protect  the public, and especially children, from content which might raise harm risks 

• empower the public, especially parents, to make informed viewing choices

• recognise and respect adult freedom of choice within the law

• respond to and reflect changing social attitudes towards media content through proactive public consultation and research

• provide a cost-effective, efficient classification service within our statutory remit

• work in partnership with the industry to develop innovative service models to provide content advice which support emerging media delivery systems

• provide an effective service to enforcement agencies

Vladmir Propp's Character Theory

Example: James bond - skyfall

- The villain - Raoul Silva

- The dispatcher - Character who makes the villain evil known and send the hero off - M 

- The helper - Eve Moneypenny

- The princess or the prize - Bond's Lover

- The donor - M

The 31 Narratemes:
In my film Ronnie boyle is the hero as it is her perspective and she explains the story with flashbacks. Mohammed brake is the princess who is in love with her and wants to marry her. This is ironic as the genders have been swapped around - the hero is a female and the princess is a male. Tamsyns dad played the role of the villain who prevents the marriage taking place by giving mohammed lots of money and telling ronnie that mohammed is dead. the radio plays the part of a dispatcher as mohammed does an interview on the radio of his ugly successful company which is named after ronnie and she recognises the name and listens to him speak.