m2 legal and ethical

 

M2 legal and ethical

LEGAL

I have been able to avoid all legal ISSUES in creating my music video through strictly sticking to all guidelines and BBCF ratings. The British board of film classification mainly focuses its job on aiding children and families in choosing what would be appropriate for them to view and what would not be appropriate by providing guides and age ratings alongside the film/videos in the brief for my music video it was strictly stated that the music video must not exceed their rating of 12a and when creating my video, I have ensured to follow that. Looking at the BBFC guidelines my music video is likely to be a PG as I have ensured there is no violent behaviour drugs or sexual behaviour showed in the video. The song I have chosen along with the video is appropriate and contains no use of inappropriate languages so that children can view this video with parental guidance without feeling uncomfortable or upset by it. In my video I have also ensured I followed the OFCOMS rules and regulations. OFCOMs is the office of communications which is a government approved regulatory and competition authority for all broadcasting and similar industries in the UK. They ensure that under 18s are protected from inappropriate content and I have ensured in my music video follows their guidelines by not involving any content that could be offensive or inappropriate. Another regulation of the Ofcom’s is to ensure no content can encourage or influence acts of crime so in my video I have ensured that no elements of the video or the song would encourage such behaviours. in my video I will be relating back to the uses and gratification theory by creating my music video with clips that preset a narrative to divert the audience from their lives. 

To help avoid any legal trademark issues I have ensured that there are no large or obvious brand logos in my video, any scenes that are filmed in public areas I will ensure that all members of the general public that are caught on camera will be blurred out of the clip to ensure them, or any brand logos are not visible. Another way that in my video I will avoid legal trademark issues is by ensuring that the camera when shooting focuses solely in the actor themselves and ensuring that their clothes have no brands or logos. In the brief it states that the content of my video must be 70% entirely my own footage which gives me the creative freedom to use clips from other resources to create the video. To access these clips, they will need to be royalty free or have permission to be freely use by using websites like pexles I can be sure that these videos raise no legal issues.

Data and personal information of the crew including actors and filming staff will be kept confidential to help maintain their privacy. For the filming I have gained full consent from actor and their parents/carers in the actor consent forms to ensure they fully consent to the video. I have also obtained permission to film in public spaces and ensured that there were no legal issues with those filming locations. Some of my scenes involve the actors being featured in a public space/setting but due to it being a public space any issues have been removed as people in such a space can be expected to be looked at or caught on a camera in footage. When filming I will ensure that I respect the public and the environment I am in. I will endure that there is no loud music played and ensure that the filming is done quietly and respectfully any litter will be left in a bin to ensure that there is no mess or vandalising left in the area for filming. When filming we will ensure that we do not obstruct any public areas or pathways and effect any of the public’s day to day activities. I have made sure that none of the actors or people are presented in a negative light to avoid any slander or negative perspectives of the people. When filming my video, it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of all the actors and people working on the creating of the music video. To ensure their safety I have carried out multiple risk assessments to ensure that there is no immediate danger for them and ensure that all equipment and locations do not cause any danger to them.

 

to ensure all legalities on filming lcoations were met, permission was asked and grantef before filming comensed 

 

ETHICAL

Stuart halls representation theory defines stereotypes as everything that is necessary to know about an individual can be know and acknowledged by traits of stereotype and ignoring all complexes. I have ensured that in my music video does not represent my actors specify. I have made sure to avoid negative stereotypes around the actors and their roles.

Stuart halls reception theory displays the idea that media texts are made by the producer with messages and scenes to be decoded and interpreted by the audience. In my video I have displayed a young girl continually suffering with grief and loss and seemingly not being able to know how to correctly deal with that grief. Hopefully an audience will be able to be decode by the end of the video the message that I hope to give which displays the idea that pushing the feelings away and ignoring them doesn’t help it evidently just makes them worse and that dealing with the emotions and handling feelings is the healthiest way to deal with it for the individual.