Production Contrariants

By Dilraj Singh Hallen

 Production Constraints
Industry How it imposes constraints on
(legislations)
How might it have affected your How it might have
and media production? product negatively ? affected your product
profession positively ?
al codes

LEGAL – “health and safety is a cross-disciplinary As I needed to spend time creating This was a positive as it
Health and area concerned with protecting the safety, a risk assessment and visiting sites meant that I was able to
health and welfare of people engaged in
Safety work or employment. The goal of all health before hand in order to create the create a production without
and safety programs is to foster a safe risk assessment before taking any any member of my crew
work environment.[1] As a secondary equipment or crew to the site, this being hurt or harmed by any
effect, it may also protect co-workers, resulted in me having to spend time environmental defaults, also
family members, employers, customers, and money getting to the the whilst carrying the risk
suppliers, nearby communities, and other
members of the public who are impacted destinations before. In some cases itassessments I was able to
by the workplace environment” was impossible to make it to the locate the best settings to
destination before hand and meant film my productions in. I
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Health and safety is now a legal criteria that that I had to go on site and making have been able to add value
should be followed in all activities carried out my crew wait outside with to my production as it now
involving any form of human contact, health equipment whilst I risk assess the also has industry credibility
and safety risk assessments are now a legal environment, and allowing them to as it has been created using
requirement in all fields of work were by all risks
on a site must be analysed and then a plan of enter only once the risk assessment the right production
action should be put in to place to eliminate the was completed. processes and practises.
risk, as the main objective of health and safety
is to eliminate any risk to humans.

LEGAL – “Copyright is the set of exclusive rights As in my production I used archive As the issue of energy
Copyright granted to the author or creator of an footage, that was sourced from efficient vehicles is quite
original work, including the right to copy,
distribute and adapt the work. These YouTube, and I didn’t contact the talked about these days,
rights can be licensed, transferred and/or author in order to obtain licensing may be some one will ask to
assigned. Copyright lasts for a certain timerights and meant that if I was to use my production and I
 Production Constraints
Industry How it imposes constraints on
(legislations)
How might it have affected your How it might have
and media production? product negatively ? affected your product
professiona positively ?
l codes
LEGAL – “Defamation—also called calumny, My production didn’t actually include This effected my
Libel vilification, slander (for transitory any directly libel statements however production in a positive
statements), and libel (for written,
broadcast, or otherwise published words) we did promote the use of energy manner as it meant that
—is the communication of a statement efficient vehicles, this meant that we we didn’t resort to just
that makes a claim, expressly stated or were arguably creating negative talking negatively about
implied to be factual, that may give an portrayal of gas guzzling vehicles, but cars that energy efficient
individual, business, product, group, there was no direct reference. As I and we allowed the
government, or nation a negative image”
originally planned to name and shame viewers to make their
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all the vehicles that were on sale that own minds up about the
Libel is a word given to a media publication
that is published, making statements that were not energy efficient at all, issue, this is beneficial
might be damaging to another business or however I was advised not to do this from a mode of address
organisations reputation. For example the due to the legal aspect of the issue. point of view as we kept
cockroach burger at KFC there wasn’t actually Also I did make reference to the Range things laid back and
ever a cockroach burger, but due to this Rover at the beginning of my relaxed.
publication being posted on the internet, it was
damaging to the KFC reputation. production being at the cost of the
environment

LEGAL – “The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a In my pre production when I organised Since learning about the
Data Unite Kingdom Act of Parliament which my interviews, I had to publish some breach of the Data
defines UK law on the processing of data
Protection on identifiable living people. It is the details of my interviewees on my blog Protection Act I have
main piece of legislation that governs the which is openly available to any who been able to remove any
protection of personal data in the UK. It views my blog, now this was actually information from my blog
was enacted to bring UK law into line withagainst the Data Protection Act, as I that might directly link
the European Directive of 1995 which haven't actually got the full permission them, allowing me to also
required Member States to protect
people's fundamental rights and to publish these details on my blog, learn from this mistake
freedoms and in particular their right to however in my defence the information and take this legislation
 Production Constraints
(legislations)
Industry and How it imposes constraintsHow might it have How it might have affected your
professional codes on media production? affected your product product positively ?
negatively ?

LEGAL AND This meant that we had to respect - As I used a person from all races to
ETHICAL – Race and all races and ethnicities, and no represent an equality of all faiths and
form of racial argument or
Ethnicity discrimination is to be made by my ethnicities, meaning that my
production. Any content within my production would appeal to all faiths
production shouldn’t single out any and gender as they may find that
race or ethnicity as this type of they can relate to people in the
behaviour could be taken offence to production.
by people of the race or ethnicity.

LEGAL AND “Privacy law is the area of law As when filming my I feel this effected my production
ETHICAL – Privacy concerned with the protection interview with the Energy positively as I learn to communicate
and preservation of the privacy
rights of individuals. efficient technologies expert with my interviewee and adhering to
Increasingly, governments and Dr Ralph Clague at the Evo their needs meant that I was able to
other public as well as private electric lab, were scientist keep the interview, or they could
organizations collect vast and engineers collaborated have asked me to remove the
amounts of personal there skills in order to interview of my production as a
information about individuals
for a variety of purposes. The research new fuels to power breach of there privacy.
law of privacy regulates the vehicles with. This meant
type of information which may that all the research was top
be collected and how this secret and so I had to send
information may be used and
them my final edited
stored”
version in order for them to
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Privacy is a law that is required to allow me to use the footage
be obeyed in order to preserve as if there was any breach of
people personal information coming there privacy in the
out in the public and the released
 Production Constraints
Industry and How it imposes constraints on How might it have (legislations)
How it might have affected your
professional media production? affected your product product positively ?
codes negatively ?

PROJECT Is when we have to forecast the As I ended up spending This allowed me plan before hand were
SPECIFIC expenditure of a project is set and then more then what I had expenditure would be required and so
sensible budget for each stage of the
-Budget project must be met or undercut in order originally budgeted due to there for I gained management skills
justify the original expenditure outlined. unexpected travelling that allowed me to arrange further
In this project the outlined budget was costs that happen to funding when I realised I was
£5000. adhere. overspending, as the budget also
helped keeping the production
organised.
PROJECT Technology is all the digital and mechanical The technology did let us We had access to the I movie HD
SPECIFIC - apparatus available to use for use in down, partly due to editing software that allowed us to
creating the production , when looking at
technology this issue specific to this project technology delegation but due to the utilise the functions as I was able to cut
available to me included: an apple Mac P.C connection of the rode the footage down along with adding
wit I movie HD software, Panasonic video boom mic being engaged archive footage and also transitions and
camera, tri-pod and rode boom with out being switched finishing the production by adding
microphone. on meant sound wasn’t graphics and voice over's all using the I-
recoded. Movies HD software.

TV INDUSTRY BBC editorial guideline: This meant that there was This means that product will receive
SPECIFIC – The BBC editorial guideline informs us a lot of stories that I accreditation from the BBC, and I will
Regulatory and about the audience’s need and what can be couldn’t cover, as they have permission for my feature to be
broadcasted and what not. It also tells
self-regulatory about the BBC’s limitations where have to were very one way and part of a magazine show on the BBC if
(OFCOM/ BBC) meet their conditions such as: truth and not very bias in terms that required as set out in my production
accuracy, Serving the public interest, it educated, entertained brief, this means that I have been
privacy, fairness. Etc It is very important and informed as there was successful in meeting my brief. Also I
when I am in my production process I will many alternatives that don’t have to comply with any ofcom
have to consider all these regulations.
leaned towards only one regulations as I will not be infringing