This document outlines several legal, ethical, and health and safety issues to consider for a documentary production. Legally, permissions are required for use of copyrighted music, videos, and locations. Ethically, sensitive topics require handling with care, and balance/lack of bias are important. Health and safety risks include carrying heavy equipment, exposed wires, weather conditions, and working with strangers. Managing risks involves following ethical standards, obtaining releases, addressing safety with equipment, and avoiding unsafe situations.

2. Legal and Ethical Issues to
consider
 LEGAL
 Copyright of music and videos/archive footage
 Location release/Recees
 Talent release/Personal release
 Privacy
 ETHICAL (what are the ethical codes for journalists?)
 Handling sensitive information
 Balance and Bias
 Representation of subject

3. Health and safety areas to
consider
 Filming and working with strangers
 Carrying heavy equipment
 Exposed wires
 Operating equipment
 Weather conditions and filming
 Protecting the camera

4. Health and safety for production
Hazard Risk to who Level of risk How to manage
Carrying heavy equipments Director and producer. Medium risk Share it with my buddy who will
always accompany me during any
interviews. This risk will be that if I
carry too much heavy equipments
with me I can hurt myself with
them, drop them, break
them, cause back pain or fracture
bones.
Always bring with me bags for the
equipments to be carried safely.
Filming and cooperating with Director, producer and High I will always bring my buddy with me
strangers during interviews. camera woman. during all interviews to keep safe
and secure as strangers are never
trusted, particularly when meetings
are made through the internet. For
example, a man who pretends to be
a banker.
Exposed wires To people who I am High To manage or prevent the risk to
interviewing, director, everyone present during an
producer, camera woman interview I can tap the wires on the
and the best boy or dolly floor and organize/ put them in one
grip. area behind the camera and where
nobody walks over the wires or trips
over the long wires.
Weather conditions and To the equipments that I High To manage this risk, it is better to
filming will be using such as the avoid filming during bad weather
camera, tripods and conditions, film indoors, carry equip
microphone, to director, equipments to help against bad
producer, best boy and weather such as an umbrella, rain
dolly boy. jacket and boots.

5. Legal issues
Legal issue to consider How this may effect my work What I can do about this?
In the real world I would really have to ask This does not really affect me as a student but as a
Copyright of music and videos/archive permission for other companies to allow me real professional documentary marker I would call
footage to use their secondary video footage on the organization up requesting for their
Internet such as YouTube. But, as a student I permission to use their video footage for my
may have to just ask documentary as a secondary source.
Yet also, if I have used archive footage from
someone else or somewhere else I will include
beneath the information/data the source to
display where I got the information data from.
This will affect my work as they may not I will make consent letters for the locations that I
allow me to use their premises for filming. will use for the owners or managers to sign it.
Location release/Recees So I will be left without being able to
interview somewhere.
I will not be allowed to film them for my For the talent and personal release I have also
Talent release/Personal release documentary, which will affect my work as I made a straight forward letter for their permission
will have to film someone else instead of the to film them and use the video footage to
person that I need to film as their work or broadcast it on YouTube.
personality is relevant to my documentary's
theme.
Privacy This will affect my work by not being able to By not talking about someone’s private life or
know enough about the background allowing them to maintain their privacy if they
information of the person that I am wish to have some during an interview or filming.
interviewing or if I film in public I cannot film
everyone without asking their privacy. This Yet also, if someone does not want to be filmed
will cause many complaints and aggression than I have to consider someone else instead of
as not everybody want to be filmed by that person that I require. Yet also, I will produce
someone. important letter requesting for their permission to
film and broadcasted.

6. Ethical Issues
ethical issue to consider How this may effect my work What I can do about this?
Handling sensitive I cannot use explicit languages that may As I am interviewing a interviewee, known
information offend or discriminate other. I am not as Keira, I have to be aware of what I am
permitted to swear, use colloquialism or asking her in my questionnaire. For
leak out sensitive information that my instance, I cannot ask her why are you
interviewee may have provided me to the dressed like a boy or don’t you feel
public. embarrassed by the way you are dressed?
As it is too inappropriate and
unprofessional.
I have to remain sensitive with what I am
saying and be objective.
I will be cautious about the type of
questions that I will ask and the type of
videos I will use from the internet to convey
my point to my target audience.
Balance and Bias This will affect my work by…..ASK MS. I will produce a documentary that contains
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different people is accepted. No biased
opinions are introduced.
This will effect my work as I am not I will be careful with how I want my
Representation of subject allowed to represent my interviewees interviewees to dress and look so that the
inappropriately or what may be seen as representation of my subject does not offend
inappropriate. For instance, showing too or discriminate anyone. (e.g. The use of
much sexually explicit scenes in my stereotypical dress codes)
documentary.

7. Tasks to complete
 Grid for Health and Safety Issues
 Recees and location release forms for all filming/ locations
 Legal and ethical Powerpoint