Unit 27 - Legal and ethical issues

Legal issues

I will need to add a disclaimer on my documentary as I have added archive footage. This disclaimer will also be at the beginning of my documentary.Using a disclaimer is important as it will stop the people who I have taken the footage from not to think I'm stealing it and using it as my own. My disclaimer will state that not everything they are watching is mine and I do not own some of the pictures and videos the audience will be watching. 

Ethical issues 

Ethics are moral principles that ultimately define peoples actions. Ethical issues that are found in the media industry include Morality, Exploitation, Offensive material and Representational issues. By taking in the ethical issues into consideration in my documentary that if a my documentary is rated 15 and up I will only show at eight or nine so kids cannot watch. 

Unit 27 - Release forms

Below are my release forms and singed signatures of people who were interviewed in my documentary

Unit 27 - Location recces

I choose to do my documentary in the school because my documentary is about exams and I thought this would be a good location for the interviews. 

When I interviewed Mercedes it was shot in the flexie. I thought it was a good place to interview her because the flexie is a place students can come for quiet and study. 

Unit 27 - Production log 5

Today I have finished everything that I need to do with my documentary. I have uploaded my interviews of my interviewees and have edited them to a standard I like. I have changed my music and added some new things like background music. I have also finally came up with a name for my documentary which I had been struggling with. I have also had found new and better archive footage and pictures as the ones I had before weren't something I was happy with. I should be able to upload my documentary tomorrow as I still need to add a disclaimer for the archive footages I have used. 

Unit 27 - Production log 4

Today I have finished my filming. I have got the last of my interviews and have uploaded them onto the mac. Currently I have my copyright, music and themes that have already been done and edited to a standard I like all I need to do is work on my interviews and I will be finished and will be able to upload my documentary onto youtube. 

Unit 27 - Documentary - The effects of exams

Unit 27 - Production log 3

Today I have finished my risk assessment for my documentary which can come in handy as before filming I can give out the risk assessments. Another thing I have completed today is my voice over. I went out with my camera and started and finished my voice over. This voice over is for the beginning of the documentary as it is the introduction that introduces the audience to the topic to show them what they will be watching. I have also recently completed my narrative arc where its a structure I will follow when doing my documentary so I do not become confused.