http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Relations_Act_1976
The Race Relations Act was created and put in the UK by the parliament of the united kingdom. To stop discrimination on the grounds of race. This act stops people being prejudice to others for race, colour, nationality, ethnic and natural origin. This helps many people live free in this country without being attract because of who and what they are.
There are many reasons how this act relates and comes in contact with the T.V and film industry. When creating any different programme and film to air on a certain channel or cinema, the movie has to go through the act to be allowed to be shown to the public. If the film or programme does not follow the act and disobeys the rules of being fair to every race, nationality or ethnic background then people will complain, they will feel like they have been attacked because of the person they are. This will end of the movie or programme being banned and the prosecution of theT.V company who did not follow the act. Also in the industry, the employment of the workers should be fair, hiring staff with different faces and colours and not sticking to members of one ethnic group or skin colour.
This is an important law to follow in and out of the film and T.V industry, this creates a better living for all races in the UK as well as fairness to all people living in the UK. Within the film industry, following this law helps a company target out all different target audiences, this creates more viewers and more income for there company. It also shows that this certain channel is fair and is seen as global to the audience they are trying to reach.
http://uk.ask.com/question/what-is-the-broadcasting-act-1990
The Broadcasting act was also created and brought into the UK rules by the UK parliament. This was brought in to create a legal framework on the electric communication meaning that there are going to have a formal structure of T.V and radio, making sure that they follow the different regulations ( like not involving illegal things in the programmes.)
It relates to the T.V and film industry because they need to follow this act to make sure them follow there regulations and not include anything seen as unsuitable in there films and programmes. If the do something wrong which is part of their rules and regulations then some type of prosecution will happen. Without the Broadcasting act and this set framework then most electric communications (T.V and radio) they would not be following their rules and regulations before airing a programme.
This is an important law because it makes sure that all these different types of media communications stay in a certain framework that stops them going over their rules and regulations. Without this law, many programmes will be aired that are seen as inappropriate to certain viewers and viewing rating will go down and so has their income.
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/obscene-publications-act
The obscene publications act was also present the england and wales, this act determines what can be shown in Britain in different types of communications around Britain. It sort out different public stories it can share, and what different information that can be given to the public.
This links in very well with the T.V and film industry, only being allowed to show certain stories and information on their different programmes and films, if the obscene publications act do not allow certain things to be shown then they are not allowed to shown on different places to the public.
This is important because some information are not allowed to be shown to the general public because of it being part of the army information or images and information being to distressing for viewers and is not allowed to be shown because of the this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Board_of_Film_Classification
http://www.bbfc.co.uk
British board of film classification, is a company with a wide range of people who watch different T.V and films that are made to create a certain age certificate for them, the 'BBFC' would rather run an independent company then rule under the government. They have been put together to give certain age certificates to different movies to protect the younger audience from seeing violence and sex scenes in these movies. There main aims are to protect the public from any harm or risk that might come from different movies, to empower the public from making different choices, and to protect children from anything bad that can cause distress and harm to children watching.
They are very important, and a key feature in the UK's T.V and film industry, this is because when sending a film to the cinema, many things have to be looked at before showing it to the public if there is anything like violence, weapons or sex scenes in a movie it has to be detected and announced before the start of the movie. A high certificate also goes on to stop any younger viewers from seeing things that are to distressing to them. Making sure in cinemas that no one below the certificate age of the film gets in.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/
Ofcom are a group of people in a company made up of many different people, for example their are NoN- executive chairman, executive directors (including the chief executive), and non-executive directors. These are the main people who deal with the main aim of the company.
These people as well as others that work in the company focus on and see if certain adverts are suitable to show to the public, seeing if any of the advert involve something that might be seen as disrespecting fro a viewer or might be misleading a viewer and giving false information about the product.
There main aim is to take down and advert that are seen to breaking the rues of creating an advert. showing things that are seen as wrong to viewers, like being racist to a certain age, gender or colour. Making sure that all advert that they look at are following all the rules and regulations, also taming in complaints from the public, which helps with there findings of adverts which are not acceptable.
The main thing i have been interested in during my research of the different health and safety polices and the different equality polices, is the amount of information that the different T.V websites have on their workers and their backgrounds. The one I focused on the most in the BBC, they make sure that every member of the crew is treated fairly, they even recored the religion and race of their workers making sure they have a wide range of each. I found this interesting because, it shows that they are interested in there workers and they like to employe people from many different backgrounds.
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