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Ofcom Regulations Sheet

OFCOM regulates media content in the UK and imposes constraints on television and radio productions to ensure fairness and accuracy. Regulations include requiring reconstructions to be an accurate depiction of events, obtaining approval before secretly filming individuals or making payments to contributors, dealing appropriately with contributors, avoiding potentially offensive material, and not depicting criminality. Regulations could negatively affect productions by limiting content but could also positively impact productions by helping viewers understand events and increasing a documentary's realism.

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Ofcom Regulations Sheet

OFCOM regulates media content in the UK and imposes constraints on television and radio productions to ensure fairness and accuracy. Regulations include requiring reconstructions to be an accurate depiction of events, obtaining approval before secretly filming individuals or making payments to contributors, dealing appropriately with contributors, avoiding potentially offensive material, and not depicting criminality. Regulations could negatively affect productions by limiting content but could also positively impact productions by helping viewers understand events and increasing a documentary's realism.

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OFCOM

Factual Programme Regulations

How it
How it could How it could
imposes
OFCOM affect your affect your
constraints on
Regulation product product
media
negatively positively
production?

What is
Ofcom is the UK regulator for both broadcasting and telecommunications. It
OFCOM’S role
regulates the content of television and also radio broadcast programmes in the
as a media UK.
regulator?

This is when you make


a remake of something The actors that are This will help my
Reconstructio for example crime acting out the remake viewers get I better
ns watch? They must might not make it that visual understanding on
insure that it is fair and accurate what actually happened
accurate.
This is when they film
You can catch him in
someone without them
Those being secret the act without him
knowing so, but they
Secret Filming must state why they are
filmed could find out at knowing so giving the
anytime documentary more
secretly filming
realism.
someone

Payments to sources or
The contributors can be
contributors without Once they have been
used in your
Payments reference to and the opproval, they might
documentary to your
approval of the ask for a high wage/
advantage
broadcaster.

Depending on who the


Contributors should be
They may not be contributors are, it
Dealing with approved by the
prepared to do what you would give it more
Contributors commissioning editor
want appeal to the audience
and programmed lawyer
and give it more realism
This means there should
be no material which Must be careful what Audience can watch it
Potentially involves, strong you say or show during knowing they wont hear
Offensive language, violence, your production because strong language which
Material sexual violence ECT. the viewers may get allow children to watch
offended as well

You mustn’t show


They can commit a If would give it more
anything in your
Criminality production that involves
criminal offense in your appeal because it’s a
production real life situation.
criminality

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