Legal and ethnical constrains on production

I have considered the legal ethical constrains on production. we have found a range of legal constrants which could be a stopping block for making our short film.

.Copyright on different music,scripts, buildings and location and artworks.
This is using others work like there soundtrack, scripts for there plays and call them as your own this is seen
as a copyright issue taking others wok and using it without there pummision for example is i wanted to use a pop stars orignal song like a beyonce song and using it as a backing track in your own peice, this is ok with payment to the orignal owner in this example beyonce and also permmisiom for the song appear in your film. fThe same goes for differnet location, for example in you wanted your setting to be place in the city of london with famous buildings like the shard in the background, you will need to contact the arcutect who created the idea of the shard and ask his permission to film next to the location and building.

This could effect us with our short film because we would like to use a soundtrack to place over out footage. Having copyright on songs makes it difficult for us to find and choose the right song for our work. We cannot use well known songs from pop stars and songs that are signed and owned by other people. We also cannot film in locations around london and involve famous buildings in our production, for example we cannot involve the london eye in our footage due to copy right reasons. If we wold like to involve one of theses landscapes then we would have to get in touch with the owner or the arctic that created the building and give them a fee to pay for it appearing in your short film.

Illegal acts on films
This is filming a scene that is illegal for example filming anamial crulety or real life murder this is unecceptanle to film and show and also very distressing and upseting for a veiwer to watch.

This wont be too much of an issue in our short film due to the fact our film does not fit in with a genre that involves violence or murder that viewers will find distressing to watch and that is illegal to film.

Use of location which hasn't given you permission
This also links to the point i have made above, when wanting to film at a speical or famous location you need permission from the arcutec before filming and using the building in the film this is so you do not go over the copyright law To gain this pimmision there are different sites and comapnies that sell and hire location for film makers, these locations are based around london in famous areas and local street areas which accomadate your film with the location it needs.

This could be a problem for our short film, if in our pre production stage we planned to film in the city centre and involve many buildings that are famous in london for example the london eye, St paul and others we could be seen as a copyright issue due to the fact that every building had been copyrighted and owned by someone else. To involve theses buildings in our short film to understand the copyright reasons we would need to get in contact with the owner of the building ask for there permission. They would ask for a fee in return to include there property in your film.

.Breaking health and safety rules and regulations on set and in different location.
This could be filming and acting in dangrous locations for example on a high cliff withough the health and saftey check this could cause injury to different people in your cast and crew which caould cause your film to stop filming and be cancalle because of the lack of attention to your crew and casts safety.

This could be a problem for our production because of the location we decided to film in. We chose a local bus stop on a main road. For example one of the health and safety regulation is that we might come in contact with a fast movie car, To keep the cast and crew safe we decided to only film on the pavement to create a lower risk rate of and impact with a car. We could break this by filming in the middled of the road to get a better angle and short for our film, this would break our health and safety regulation, which could cause injury to one of the cast and crew.
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Use of members of the public without there permission as well as people featuring in the film for example close us of there faces without asking there permission.
If you are filming in a public location there are going to be many members of the public walking around getting invoved with there daily lives, if filming is going to take place in public a notice has to go up explaning the filming that is going to take place and give them warning so they know that they might get caught on camera if they are walking past. If there is no notice the faces of the public should be slightley blurred out not showing there identity. If one meneber did not give any permmision to film them up closer or a medium close up there can be law suit filed due to the lack of filming witout there permission.

 we are filming on a public street also using a public bus stop , this means we will come in contact with many members of the public walking past where we are filming or using the public bus stop. To show the public awareness of our filming we put around signs explaining that we are filming at this location  so that they know they might be caught on tape. If members of the public sit at the buss stop whilst filming we will stop and wait for them to catch there bus so we don't catch them in our film.

We aso started focusing on ethical constants looking at what is acceptable on a film set:
Women should be treated equally in the work place not being told to do minor jobs because of there gender. Also everyone with different skin colours should be treated equally and be given the same respect as everyone who works on set.
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we are in a group with Four girls and one boy which means the female dominate the group which means women is treated fairly because there is only one boy we treated him with repeat, respected his views and opinions and involved him in our re and post production stages and kept him updated with news and new ideas others in the group came up with.

.Behaviour at work and how you treat people
Evertone on set should be treated with respect and everyone should stick to what they do. If someone else like the camera man interfeers with the lighting otheres can see that there is no need for lighting man if the camera man can do the same job.  So its a better idea to stick to what your know and what you trained to do.

Because we are all friends in the same media sessions the relationship between us all is closer then id we are new and meet only when producing this film. We also share different roles when filming helping each other and working with our skills and strengths on different roles whilst filming. We all treat each other with respect, and because we are filming in a public area we know that are behaviour has to suit the environment we are in and not stress or catch bad attention from the members of the public.

Ultra violence in the movie which gives it a higher viewing certificate which means less cinema's ill be able to show the movie.
Violence in a movie is ok depending on the movie and how the violence is protrated to an audiance
.if there is a lot of beating and seeing the weapos used against another person it could be destressing for an audiance and cause upset for younger veiwers so the certificant could be higher which could mean less veiwes of people who do not agree with very bad violance.

This does not create a problem for our production due to its genre. Are film is made to be a rom com. this do sent include violence of any sort which means its friendly for young kids to watch and is not distressing for a viewer.

Being involved and part of a union (pact and bectm)
There are many advantages of being involved as part of a union due to workers getting fair treatment getting fair pay and respect from others is any of the rules of the union are broken then strikes can take place to gain more respect and to gain more pay from the workplace. there also can be union strikes meaning everyone in the union goes on stirke. The two that are know in the film industry are pact and bectm.

Because we are young film makers doing the production for our short film and we do not get paid for our work because its us trying to get a grade for our media Alevel we do not need or have a reason to join a union. If we are treated unfairly by any members of the public whilst filming in the location of our pick we could go back to our collage and get it sorted with our media teacher.