Music video regulation

At the Conservative Party conference 2014 David Cameron announced new age rating on music videos. This is in response to many criticisms from parents group that childhood is becoming increasingly sexualised.

Ofcom is  in charge of regulating television and radio sector. People who watch television and listen to radio are protected from harmful or offensive material.

I think the parents/individual should take more care in what they watch/let their children watch. The Parents should set up a firewall with other available parental controls, which they need to learn how to emplace. YouTube has its own age regulations.
ttps://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802167?safe=vss
Yet some music videos are still get through. e.g. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines.
http://youtu.be/yyDUC1LUXSU

Whether breasts, buttocks or genitals (clothed or unclothed) are the focal point of the video;

Whether the video setting is sexually suggestive (e.g. a location generally associated with sexual activity, such as a bed);

Whether the subject is depicted in a pose that is intended to sexually arouse the viewer;

Whether the language used in the video is vulgar and/or lewd;

Whether the subject's actions in the video suggest a willingness to engage in sexual activity (e.g. kissing, provocative dancing, fondling); and

If a subject is minimally clothed, whether the clothing would be acceptable in appropriate public contexts (e.g. swimwear vs. underwear).

There is a lot of shots of the specific bodily parts throughout the video (with blatant full frontal nudity in the uncensored version). There are a lot of suggestive sequences in the video like a man is leaning on top of a woman.
The song is about the blurred lines between yes and no in a sexual context this can be seen as vulgar or lewd.
Certain lyrics in the song could be heard as suggestive. E.g.
"The way you grab me
Must wanna get nasty
Go ahead, get at me"
Throughout the video there is a lot of provocative dancing and fondling of women with little to no clothing on them.

I think that this kind of music video shouldn't be on web sites like YouTube or MTV and should be  on web sites that are harder for children to access (block by parental filters) and have more lenient regulations. In my opinion the BBFC should go ahead with the age regulation and that Blurred Lines would be an 18. This would help the situation due to it would restrict the amount of people being able to view it.





"Oh My"
(due to school regulations I cannot post certain images from "Blurred Lines" so heres a picture of George Takei) 

Music video pitch notes

Best music videos of all time

http://www.nme.com/list/100-greatest-music-videos/217342/page/1

http://entertainment.time.com/2011/07/28/the-30-all-time-best-music-videos/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoPx7v74f0

Like CD covers it very opinionated on what is the best music video ever.
Also most of the top videos are by popular artist and directors.


http://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA

Thriller was very revolutionary for the time and being very unique with a 13 minuet (approx.) length.
It also has its own story similar to a short film which has never been done before and was done to stand out more. With a budget of 500,000 it was one of the most expensive music videos of the era. I think its on of the best because so different to everything else that came out at the time. It also increased album sales drastically selling over 65 million albums making it a huge success.

http://youtu.be/g93mz_eZ5N4

Sledgehammer is done with just stop frame animation which takes a lot of time to make, it was also the first fully stop frame animated music video. Peter Gabriel Laid down for 16 hours whilst they filmed him frame by frame. It was his first no.1 in the US after he split up with genesis.


http://youtu.be/1pkVLqSaahk

Land of confusion is very unique in its use of the puppets from the T.V. show "Spiting Image". Even though "Spiting Image" have made their own music videos but this is the first time that they have been commissioned to make one for a band. The video has an excess of intertextuality as references and parodies to films, political figures and celebrities of the era. The zeitgeist is expressed by showing cold war figures such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. This is used to connect with the audience of the time because they can relate to what's happening. Genesis and "Spitting Image" are poking fun at inept politicians.