Mock Exam

i believe that film censorship is motivated by film due to the way we now make films that have changed from the 1980's to now. They all related back to home video and video nasties. this is due the fact that films now have huge budgets and can only viewed if they are allowed in the country. Due the piracy for films (that is used a lot) we can now go from watching a film on a VHS to watching them online so the bans are to insure people not to watch these films but because people are telling us not to it makes up want to.

Home video has been around since the 1980s and has had things such as piracy and other forms of ways for people to illegally watch films. These illegal videos to be watched of VHS or other ways to watch films has changed our technology side as well as the economic side of film. Technical wise it has shown a new way of watching films at home and for the economic side of things it has made a huge dent in the studio side because people are paying for films to dealers (film dealers) to get a rubbish copy of a film that they can watch when they want and no money is going to the film companies. A lot of other ways that is both social and economic is that with VCR and tapes of films more then one person can watch them at a time so other people can lend the tape of the films to there friends for them to watch on there home television screen which for the film companies it takes even more money from them because one copy of a film can be watched by loads of people not just one person and the other people can watch them for free. VCR has also damaged cinemas as well because people can watch films for free in there homes and not waste money to watch them at the cinemas.

Video nasties are films that may be to graphic or gory for certain people. An example of this is The Human Centipede 2 which was filmed in the UK but was banned in the UK as well. This is down the political side of films. most first world countries have rules when it comes to films and these rules is so that the there is a age rating on the films poster and box. This censorship is to ensure that no one under the age that the films has been rated watch the film. Most video nasties are all horror based which contains graphic images and may have sexual related scenes in. All video nasties are played by not really famous actors that no one has heard of and there are all really cheap. Economic side of things is that they don't have much to pay back to the film studio and wont run the risk of going to far over there budget. Technology has also caused a massive change in video nasties. Some films are banned in countries and what people will do is put them onto the internet so people can watch them so there are other ways to get around that ban of the film.

The moral panic of films are due to that fact that if a film is to bad to be viewed it is to be banned in that certain country. With the BBFC coming into play and saying "this film is to bad to be viewed in our country" it makes a few people say "we cant watch that" but mostly others to say "we really want to watch this film". The BBFC is a conservative based political view on films issued by Margret Thature when she was the Prime Minister of England in the 1980s. The Conservative party is a selfish department. They want people to believe in what they think is right for films.

The BBFC issued that films would be able to be bought at shops to be watched on VHS and later DVD. They made it so that all the profits from the film are sent to the owners of the film and the companies that issued it. The censorship label was also still there so that no kids or people under the age of the censor could buy the film. This made the economic profits for films go up other then cinema profits. The ability to legally buy films in shops but have most of the money go to the films owners was a massive improvement to the cinema industry but sadly it had a downfall. Now that one person buys a film they can them stick it on the internet for more people to watch and in a high quality. An example of this is a site which is now shut down called Mega Video which is full of films and other content that can be viewed for free. The owner was arrested which shows how high the risk is and its also shows how far we have come with our technology that we can view thousands of old and new films online for free.

In conclusion we have taken a few steps forwards for good aspects of being able to watch films such as bigger screens, better sound and picture but at the same time its gone down as well, with the being able to watch films online. In the 1980s it was difficult to watch a pirated film that was actually good but now we can just type in what film we want to watch and accesses it easily. With video nasties there might as well be no ban at all. Its easy to understand why the ban is there but no matter what country the film is banned in there will be someone to upload it to the internet to watch for free. Most film companies have become more mainstream and have brought back old films but re made to make it look more modern so that it shows the film off a little bit more but it the older version is better because its a blast from the past. Horror directors are not big in the film industry mainly because they don't use a huge budget and a huge company like films such as The Advengers. People are not as scared as horror films now. in the 1980's people would be scared of vampires and other monsters now we have films where these so called "monsters" are in romantic films (Twilight) so horror films have to go so over the top to get noticed but are still known as Video nasties.