PG 33 AND 244
What is Legal, moral and ethical issues in media products?
Legal issues - When planning my product, I need to take into consideration the regulation issues such as the legal issues. If I don't take them into account, then it could impact my media product.
Moral and ethical issues - Moral issues is when someone has their own personal preference. Ethical issues are when someone has values in society.
When filming my Ident, I need to take into consideration:
Ident 1:
- Legal issues - For an example copyright (Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988), I need to make sure I don't use copyrighted music. A way I'll be considering this is by not using copyrighted music and use previous tiny pop music or a song that won't get me copyrighted or any images that are copied.
- Moral and ethical issues - For an example when filming my idents, I need to take into consideration the genders. Making sure it doesn't offend anyone's but is also welcoming for anyone.
Ident 2:
- Legal issues - For an example the copyright (Copyright, Designs and Patent act 1988), I need to make sure with the green screens I use the accrue characters from the channel Tiny Pop and not anywhere else. Since I won't get copyrighted for copying or stealing anything.
- Moral and ethical issues - I need to make sure that when filming my ident I'm not offending anyone with any race since young kids will be watching this ident. The music won't offend anyone and be suitable for the target audience.
Ofcom
Ofcom is responsible for regulating television idents. Ofcom has specific guidelines which every programme, channel anything shown on the TV is suitable for the audience in the UK. For an example certain ident for certain movies may not be shown since it may not be suitable for a younger audience since the ident may have harmful content or anything inappropriate.
On Ofcom here is what might impact both of my idents:
- Misrepresentation
- Protection of under 18s
- Copyright