constraints

Constraints/ Legal & Ethical CONSTRAINTS -­‐ Costs, Time, Personnel, Resources. LEGAL & ETHICAL

Costs -­‐

Due to our project being a documentary we do not have to pay certain costs that other projects will, for example we do not have to pay for actors as any people in our documentary will be volunteering their <me to be in it.

Also, due to a majority of our interviews in our documentary taking place on loca<on, we do not have to pay costs for factors such as backdrops for shoo<ng, hazard tape or extension leads.

But one of the factors that we will have to deal with is loca<on costs, due to us filming on a certain loca<on E.G. within a fashion store, it also means that transport costs will have to be covered as well.

Time Before filming any of our own footage we will strive to find archive footage from other shows and programmes, we will also use different methods to find this footage (E.G. YouTube, watching past documentaries). It should be relatively simple to find this footage, so we would spend a maximum of 3 days on this.

After finding our own footage we will commence filming our own footage, we will film our own “archive” footage E.G. filming of shoppers within stores. But also we will film interviews that will be relevant to our documentary topic, this will take a considerable amount of time so will spend at-least 3 weeks on this.

After we have finished filming all of our footage we will commence the editing of the footage and sound within the documentary, this will be quite a slow process as to not make any mistakes with footage so will spend around 3 weeks on this.

After we have completed the editing an optional piece of work that could be completed is graphics for within the documentary E.G. a graphic showing names of interviews, this could be done quite quickly so we would spend a maximum of a week on this.

Personnel and Resources Personnel • Interviewer • Camera man • Sound man • Editor

Resources -Camera -tripod - Sound recorders -Microphones -computer equipped with final cut pro for editing.

-Their will be 3 people working on production so we will be able to complete the production In time.

Legal and Ethical •

In this documentary we will be using a lot of archive footage and songs owned by other companies, enterprises or individuals. We are covered against any legal ac<on under the use of fair dealing under the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act (UK). These are largely the same as the laws of fair use. I'm covered under the 1st rule 'Research and Private study' and par<cularly 'The copy is made for the purposes of research or private study'.

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''I. Research and private study

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Copying parts of a literary, drama<c, musical or ar<s<c work or of a typographical arrangement of a published edi<on for the purpose of research or private study is allowed under the following condi<ons:

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·∙ The copy is made for the purposes of research or private study. ·∙ The copy is made for non-­‐commercial purposes. ·∙ The source of the material is acknowledged. ·∙ The person making the copy does not make copies of the material available for a number of people.''

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Making a documentary our main concern were legal issues over accuracy and bias so we looked into the OFCOM broadcas<ng codes rules on imprac<cality and accuracy.

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I looked specifically at sec<on 5 rules Rules 5.5 to 5.12 as they are the rules that 'apply to television programme'. Specific rules that applied to us and that we were most concern with were: 5.7 Views and facts must not be misrepresented. Views must also be presented with due weight over appropriate <meframes.

5.9 Presenters and reporters (with the excep<on of news presenters and reporters in news programmes), presenters of "personal view" or "authored" programmes or items, and chairs of discussion programmes may express their own views on ma^ers of poli<cal or industrial controversy or ma^ers rela<ng to current public policy. However, alterna<ve viewpoints must be adequately represented either in the programme, or in a series of programmes taken as a whole. Addi<onally, presenters must not use the advantage of regular appearances to promote their views in a way that compromises the requirement for due impar<ality. Presenter phone-­‐ins must encourage and must not exclude alterna<ve views.

5.10 A personal view or authored programme or item must be clearly signaled to the audience at the outset. This is a minimum requirement and may not be sufficient in all circumstances. (Personality phone-­‐in hosts on radio are exempted from this provision unless their personal view status is unclear.)

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Legal and Ethical ProtecCng under 18s

This law is in place in order to protect the wellbeing of young people from certain images (EG nudity, violence) This law might effect our documentary as archive footage of sweatshops will be shown. To protect the wellbeing of young people a warning could be placed at the start of the documentary saying “some images some people might find disturbing). Also, due to the nature of archive footage used, this documentary would be ideally shown aeer the watershed. Also, due to us interviewing under-­‐18s we have to make sure the ques<ons asked are su<able.

Legal and Ethical ImparCality & accuracy

This law is in place as to make sure that viewers who will watch any factual programme are not lied too. All news reported within factual programmes have to be actual fact and truth, otherwise this would damage the integrity of the programme, and also means viewers would be lost. In our own documentary we will have to be careful and check our facts carefully, as the documentary will include facts about fashion, and also about how the clothes are made. We cannot use anything that is not true as this means we are breaking the law, which could result in our factual produc<on being taken off the air, or if it is shown with a mistake, having to make an apology on the mistakes shown.

Legal and Ethical fairness

This law is in place in order to make sure that any contribuator to a factual produc<on will be treated fairly, this law also reserves the right for a contributor to not be shown during their interview and just have audio playing, they also have the right to have their voice changed. This law will have to be considered during our own documentary as certain people may not want to be shown on screen, and we will have to prepare for this and cater to what every contributor needs. This law is also placed to make sure that any footage used does not create unfairness, as documentary makers we will need to make sure that we offer balance for all points made.

Legal and Ethical Harm&Offence

This law is in place to make sure that anything that is broadcast within a factual produc<on will cause any harm or offence to the audience, it also stands for that anything shown can not mislead or lie to a audience, if this law is broken repracussions could be that the programme is taken off the air, in our own documentary we will have to be careful with what is shown to a audience to not cause offence, for example if we have archive footage that some might find distressing, a warning will be shown before the documentary telling the audience that some scene might be distressing to the viewer.