Some useful links around the debate/discussion around regulation of music videos in the UK. You will need to DL to access the link.

1. Aim: Analyse the role and effectiveness of
Music Video Regulation
In pairs, discuss:
Who regulates music videos?
Should they?
If so, which ones?
What are the issues around regulation?
Must research music video regulation and complete a blog post
Should all of the above but reflect on the effectiveness of regulations
Could all of the above but also include a historical perspective on music video
regulation

2. Music Video Regulation
• Recent developments
At the Conservative Party conference 2014 David Cameron
announced new age ratings on music videos. Here is a discussion
from BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme – 1st October
This is in response to many criticisms from parents groups that
childhood is becoming increasingly sexualised.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/
23/will-age-rating-classifications-music-video-
work

3. Complete a blog post about
music video regulation
• Find examples of music videos that were
banned (best to watch at home). What
were the reasons given for banning them?
• Has this changed over time (does this
reflect the ‘ideological concerns of the
day’?)
• Who is in charge of regulating music
videos?
• What do you think are the difficulties with
implementing regulations?
• Evaluate how effective you think these
measures will be?
You may wish to think about the
interviewee’s point that

4. Refer to your sources
I feel that parents have reasonable concerns about
the effect of sexualised music videos on their
children, for example, Charlotte Richardson’s article
in the Guardian mentions an American
Psychological Association study which suggests a
strong link between pop media and mental
conditions in young girls such as eating disorders.
However, as she goes on to say, there is a danger
that advice or regulation can become censorship –
furthermore, how can it actually be enforced in the
online age?