25/09/12

In today’s lesson, we started off by learning a few keywords which will help us throughout learning regulation within magazines and films; 1. Desentisation – The audience stops being effected by the images that are presented. 2. De – regulation – The stopping of monitoring & intervention in media production & consumption. 3. Regulation – The control & monitoring & intervention in media production & consumption. 4. Censorship – The practice of ‘cutting’ or thwarting access to media material. 5. Cultural regulation – Different societies have different approaches to censoring things. These 5 keywords were for the first half of the lesson. The second half of the lesson consisted of watching the ‘Human Centipede’ trailer, we then (in groups) asked questions of ‘who is the audience for the film?, which social groups would be offended? And, how far does the content reflect historical changes in regulation?’.