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Ideas:

  • Sport

  • Art

  • Historical elements of the City

  • Interview style

  • Landscape 

  • Landmarks

  • Attractions

  • The people/culture/diversity 

  • Architecture

  • Festivals/ events 

legal and ethical issues 

Legal:  anything that is illegal

Ethical: anything that may upset, offend or anger people 

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Legal issues within film involve things such as copyright law which is big thing in the media industry. This is for the conservation of the company's product itself. The characters, the stript, the soundtrack etc. This is so that then original material cannot be used by someone else and tight your product is safe and reproduced by someone else.

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Below is the full UK copyright law 

Offensive Material: The material that might harm or offend a person physically and mentally. This is mostly the case in films that have the 18 age certificate which have striking content such as violence, blood and gore. The film business use these certificates to separate what is acceptable for young children and young adults. 

Discrimination Legislation: Discrimination is a massive thing in any media business and can be illegal with issues such as Religion, Homophobia and Disability 

What is a model release form?

A model release form is a written and signed agreement between you and the person you are photographing, the person of which is to protect- release- you from liability on future lawsuits which that person might fit;e against you for legal claims like invasion of privacy, defamation of character etc. The stipulates the terms under which one party may use photos taken of another party. 

Libel Law: Is when you damage a person or a companies reputation in long-lasting form through your own content. This is generally done to a wide audience with things such as social media, film and television to broadcasts something damaging to that person's or companies reputation. 

The BBFC:The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental institution, establsihed by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the video recordings act in 1984. 

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Ofcom is the communications regulator in the UK. It regulate the TV, radio and video-on-demand sectors, fixed-line telecoms, mobiles and postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate. Ofcom operates under a number of Acts of Parliament, including in particular the Communications Act 2003. 

I will want my product to be viewed by everyone and therefore it must be rated PG which means there will be non explicit content such as swearing or violence. 

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