Assignment 7.2

Legal constraints are limitations or restrictions apply on media products to prevent something from happening. There are many organisations involved in the regulation of this sector.

Ethical issues are mostly social issues that including representation of gender, representation of religious beliefs.

Legal 

Broadcasting Act 1990
It's a series of law of the british Parliament, it was taken from Government's White Paper on Communications and turned into a new Act. This Act is relates to wether the it's legal or not to broadcast on TV and radio in the UK.

Official Secrets Act 1989
It's an Act of the Parliament of the UK that used to protect Government secrets which would damage the public . It's illegal to show any information that regarding national security.

Film Act 1985
This act repealed film act 1960

Video Recording Act
Licensing Act

Human Rights Act

Privacy law

Risk assessment/story board/location report

Risk assessment

Story board

Location report

Regulation

The regulations I need to follow is that data protections, health and safety also copyright act because I will have to make sure that my data is safe. And  keep my documents safe is also important because if I loose it I cannot complete my film. I also need to make sure that I get location permission as well because I might take some shot in certain area. Anyone who has contribute to my film, I will name them in the credits because it's also considered within regulations.

Copyright

I've been look at on many sites but there's not much suitable and copyright free music to use, I won't be able to use it if it's copyrighted so I have to prevent to buy The music that I am going to use is free and I find it in iMovie default musics so I don't think there's a copyright issues as long as it's not use in commercial products. And I won't use any secondary sources like video clips, news headlines in my film.

health and safety

Health and safety is important because I do not want to hurt myself during filming, and I will prevent to hurt anyone else. So there are things I need to take extra care of.

Slippery floor/stairs- those are extremely dangerous once you don't take care of it.

The wall in my room- because it's a small space so I have to watch my head because I sometimes just accidentally smashed my head onto the wall.

Cat- I do have a kitten in my room so I have to watch out because it scratches people sometime.

Script

This will be the script for my final production, obviously I will be the camera person as I am going to complete these tasks on my own. I will be the director and I might adjust the narrative while i filming.  I will write up the dialogue and go through it many times because English is not my first language, therefore I need to make sure it's understandable to the audience and I speak it confidently in front of camera.

There won't be story tellings, it will be just me talk through my opinions of mobile addictions because I do believe I am one of the mobile addicts. And I do believe that I can represent them and to say my true feelings about the disadvantages of mobile overuse.

Planning Schedule

As the documentary film will be my individual task, I have to plan everything I need to do beforehand. I decided that I need to write up this planing schedule and get everything organised.
I will do the preproduction tasks such as storyboard, location report and preproduction schedule. I don't have to do a call sheet because I am going to film myself and nobody else. I will completing risk assessment as well. And after all these tasks are done, I will start filming and edit bits together.

Budget

Item:
   camera/phone

I do not need lots of items to film my documentary so either camera or a smartphone will be all right for me. Also a PC for editing will be needed.

Amount:
£0


I do not have to pay for any of those as I already got camera and phone myself therefore the amount is zero.

Total:
£0

So all I need to do is to make sure that I prepared those equipment before I start filming.

Assignment 7.1

The creative media sector includes a wide range of industries,  and there are large numbers of people in those industries included films, television, publishing and so on. These industries all use words, sounds and images to communicate with mass audiences and require the creativity of people with ideas for content also the technical skills of staff that can operate the equipment/software to make the media products.  I will be focusing on Television and film sector and investigate a few of different types of companies.

Private ownership

ITV is one of the examples of private ownership and it was launched in 1955. It is the biggest commercial public service TV network in the UK, it was primarily funded by advertising and this also means it does not need to meet strict Securities and Exchange Commission filling requirements as public companies do.  ITV mainly focus on television and this makes it an example of horizontal integration because it expanded TV channels from ITV2 in 1998 to CITV in 2006.

It owned by ITV plc., the British media company that a merger by Granada plc. and Carlton Communications. The main source of income is advertising funds, because it’s the largest, lots companies cost money to get their advertisements to show on the TV.  There are 14 regional licenses and one national license to provide the breakfast service and some for specific programming services. There are fifteen franchises are in the hands of three companies because some of these companies have merged.  

ITV shares 22% of audience. ITV channel holds the biggest group of audience, so the more advertisement shows ITV channel the more those companies pay.

Public Service media

The BBC is a public service broadcaster located in London, The government funded BBC, and the main sources of its income are everyone with a television pays for also known as TV license fee.  The BBC is vertical integrated which means that BBC receive all the profit.  As a public broadcaster, BBC is non-commercial and it does not sell products to public to make money, what they do is to entertain them.  BBC does a lot research to find out what the public want because and this ensures the 1^st place of its share of audience.

 

Multinationals

Time Warner

Independents

Studio AKA

Conglomerates

The Walt Disney Company