Censorship ~ William Dixon

Censorship is when a part of a song or video gets filtered out to cover up anything inappropriate. This can either be something visual or audio. To cover up audio, you can have either a “beeb” sound over the top of the sound or mute the sound out completely. Also, if it is a word such as a swear word, you can simply change the word completely into something with a similar meaning. For example, In James Blunt’s song “Your Beautiful” in one version a lyric in the song is “you can see from my face that I was, f**king high…” and in the censored version it’s “you can see from my face that I was, flying high”. In video, you can either: blur out something, put a black box over it, or cut out the clip completely.

With songs and music videos, there will sometimes be two versions of the song/video. One version which they will only be allowed to play after 9:00pm on live T.V/Radio which will be the uncensored version and then the censored version which they will can play anytime as it’s appropriate for all audiences. An example of a music video which does this is Chase and Status’ “Pieces” Featuring Plan B. And a song with two versions, which I mentioned earlier, James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”

Here is a link to the uncensored version of “Pieces”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJreihOW3ZA

Here is a link to the censored version of “Pieces”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MJspL232c8&noredirect=1

You can play “You’re Beautiful” the uncensored version below by clicking play



And you play “You’re Beautiful” censored below by clicking play



With our music video, we don't plan to have any inappropriate content that will need to be censored so with regards to our Music Video, we won't be needing to censor out anything.