Television and radio commercials are not allowed to use bleeps to obscure swearing under BACC/CAP guidelines. Regulations Advertising in the United Kingdom Bleep censors have seen a rare use in cinema film, for example during Johanna Mason's interview in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, or during Tony Stark's meeting with Senator Stern in Iron Man 2.īleeping is commonly used in English-language and Japanese-language broadcasting, but is sometimes/rarely used in some other languages (such as Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Polish), displaying the varying attitudes between countries some are more liberal towards swearing, less inclined to use strong profanities in front of a camera in the first place, or unwilling to censor. The bleep is sometimes used for privacy reasons, concealing things such as names and addresses. In the first example, the film may (unintentionally) become nonsensical or confusing if the removed portion contains an element important to the plot. When films are edited for daytime TV, broadcasters usually prefer not to bleep swearing, but cut out the segment containing it, replace the speech with different words, or cover it with silence or a sound effect. In the case of comedies, most bleeping may be for humorous purposes. – since scripted Drama and comedy are designed to suit the time of broadcast. Sometimes, a " black bar" can be seen for closed caption bleep, or pixelization.īleeping is normally only used in unscripted programs – documentaries, radio features, panel games etc. Occasionally, bleeping is not reflected in the captions, allowing the unedited dialogue to be seen. Where open captions are used (generally in instances where the speaker is not easily understood), a blank is used where the word is bleeped. ****, f***, f**k, f*ck, or remaining faithful to the audio track. f-k f-), and occasionally asterisks (e.g. On closed caption subtitling, bleeped words are usually represented by the phrase "( bleep)", sometimes the phrase "" or "", sometimes hyphens (e.g. A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood by lip reading.
#Bleep censor software#
The bleep censor is a software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician.
#Bleep censor tv#
Above, the cartoon says "Oh-", followed by the censor.īleeping has been used for many years as a means of censoring TV programs to remove content not deemed suitable for "family" or "nighttime" viewing and personal information for privacy. Censor boxes, such as the one above, may be used along with the bleeps so that the audience would not lip-read the swearer's words.
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