Music videos can contain images of suicide, such as a gun to the head or someone hanging themselves. Ofcom does not prohibit such themes and images from being broadcast in programming before the watershed. However in the context of a brief music video they would have to be very carefully limited and presented.
Music videos can contain images of suicide, such as a gun to the head or someone hanging themselves. Ofcom does not prohibit such themes and images from being broadcast in programming before the watershed. However in the context of a brief music video they would have to be very carefully limited and presented.
Music videos can contain images of suicide, such as a gun to the head or someone hanging themselves. Ofcom does not prohibit such themes and images from being broadcast in programming before the watershed. However in the context of a brief music video they would have to be very carefully limited and presented.
Music videos can contain images of suicide, such as a gun to the head or someone hanging themselves. Ofcom does not prohibit such themes and images from being broadcast in programming before the watershed. However in the context of a brief music video they would have to be very carefully limited and presented.
Ofcom researchOfcom has previously received queries about whether music videos can
contain images of suicide, such as a gun to the head or someone hanging
themselves. Ofcom does not prohibit such themes and images from being broadcast in programming before the watershed. In order to comply with the Code however in the context of a brief music video they would have to be very carefully limited and presented. Rule 1.13 states: Dangerous behaviour, or the portrayal of dangerous behaviour, that is likely to be easily imitable by children in a manner that is harmful must not be broadcast before the watershedunless there is editorial justification. Therefore great care should be taken to limit images of dangerous behaviour so that information or details are not presented which could lead to imitation by children. From this I will make sure that my video will not contain any violence and when the teenagers will take the drugs there will be no showing of them actually doing it so it will not be imitable. I will do this by using things that look similar to what I am trying to show and there will only be quick shots of them doing so. When the video is implying that the teenagers are intoxicated I will include no dangerous behaviour as it isnt relevant and there is other ways of showing that they are high. In the end of there will not be any suicide, but there will be depression shown which doesnt end up in suicide, it is just there to add effect and meaning to the video.