The document provides guidelines for interviewing someone who has had an eating disorder to make them comfortable and willing to share their story. It advises against including images that show how skinny people are as it could trigger eating disorders by making thinness seem like a goal. As ambassadors working with the eating disorder charity B-eat, the filmmakers agree to follow these media guidelines.

1. The guidelines above are very
useful, as well the research we did
on interviews before hand was
basic and for interviews in general,
these guidelines are however
specific to interviewing someone
who has had an eating disorder
which will help us ensure Maddy in
comfortable, and feels comfortable
to share her story, or tell us if there
is anything she is unwilling to do.
As said before (and B-eat has
greatly stress as you will see
further in the slides)both Maddy
and B-eat advised us before,
images of people showing how
skinny they are (to create shock in
the audience) is not recommended
in documentaries such as ours as
it can actually trigger anorexia as
the images can be perceived as
something to try and achieve (in
terms of skinnyness). As a B-eat
Ambassador in our documentary
we agree and will abide by these
rules.

2. http://www.b-eat.co.uk/about-beat/media-centre/media-
guidelines/
For us to keep in mind:

5. In these emails we have just thanked the B-eat team
for giving us the golden opportunity of meeting up with
Emails to B-eat Maddy and having her in our documentary as it’s a
very important and significant part of the documentary.

7. Channel
There are rules of the regulator that
any and all programmes have to
follow known as Ofcon. However,
with Channel 4 there is the Channel
4 ethos to keep in mind. Channel 4’s
Missions Statement will outline what
rules and regulations they have
separate for the programmes and
films to be created under them. Even Channel 4 has given a slot to programme ‘3 Minute Wonder’
though Channel 4 has flexible rules that presents first time directors and their new documentaries
as they do present very controversial mid-day on weekdays on channel 4’s primetime schedule. This
programmes, they still do have rules means that the PG Certificate must be abided by, but this
(statement on next page). coincides with the original certificate we’ve set our product for.
Link to a basic mission statement that would
be abided by all in general:
http://resources.mediatrust.org/marketing-
support/introduction-to-marketing/the-
mission-statement/?gclid=CK-
Pr5qIwrMCFcbLtAod10QAyg

8. • The statement reaffirms what
I’ve said about it’s
controversy and flexibility, It’s
programmes are different
from those of conventional
topics- ‘Distinctiveness and
Diversity’, which we’ve
achieved in our documentary
through exploring the
influences of ‘new media’.
However, there are other
rules such as it must educate
people and raise awareness
to have an impact and be a
programme that multiple
audiences can enjoy not just
the one target focus.