This document outlines the planning and risk assessment for a student photography project to create a music magazine. It includes details on locations, permission from subjects, potential hazards, health and safety regulations, intellectual property considerations, and examples of press code violations. Compliance with regulations around risk assessment, permissions, and ethics are emphasized.
2. Contents
Locations Recce: Slide 3
Photography Plan: Slide 4
Potential Risks/hazards: Slide 5
Permission taken for location of photographs: Slide 6-9
HSE: What they are and what they do? What is a risk assessment: Slide 10
Health and Safety at work Act: Slide 11
Public Liability Insurance: Slide 12
How does NME conduct their Risk Assessment: Slide 13
IPSO and PCC: Slide 14 – 17
Intellectual Property: Slide 18-21
Case Studies: Slide 22 – 23
Conclusion: Slide 24
3. Locations Recce
This is my locations recce that I had to make sure was completed, before I went to take the images for my magazine’s
first issue. It includes the location of where the images will be taken, the equipment needed, the permission needed
and the potential risks/hazards that could occur
(Risk Assessment).
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4. Photography Plan
This is my Photography plan, which outlines the reasons behind choosing “BEATS” as
my magazine title, the product description, the photographers details, casting
members and reasons for choosing them to feature in the first issue of my magazine,
(model requirements) how they should like?, hair and make up and finally where and
when the photoshoot is going to take place.
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5. Risk Assessment
Potential hazards/Risks
Here I have shown that having unnecessary
electrical wirers on the floor in the way of the
scene can cause a lot of risks to people’s health
and safety for example someone could
potentially not see the wirers in the way and
they could trip and fall causing injury.
Here we can see that there is a crowded
scene of equipment in the studio all at
the same time. This could cause the crew
members to trip and fall over. It could
also cause frustration and stress due to
having too much equipment in the scene
when it is not necessary.
6. Permission needed for images taken
Above is the email I sent to Tony, who is a friend of mine, who kindly offered to
let me use his house as the location to take the images.
7. Permission needed for images taken (Continued)
Here is the email, that I received from Tony, agreeing to let me use his house for the
location for the images.
8. Permission needed for images taken (Continued)
Here is the email that I sent back to Tony to agree with the arrangement. It is
extremely important when talking about ethical issues to always ask permission from
the owner of the location to take photographs as this would be a breach against the
law.
9. Interview with Tony
As part of the permission procedure to take the photographs for my magazine, I
decided to meet up with Tony, to interview him to further ask him if the location
arrangement was still on. Below are the questions that I asked him:
10. HSE: Health and Safety Executive
A risk assessment is simply a careful
examination of what, in your workplace,
could cause harm to people, so that you
can determine whether you have taken
enough precautions or should do more
to prevent harm. Workers and others
have a right to be protected from harm
caused by a failure to take reasonable
control measures. Accidents and ill
health can ruin lives and affect your
business too if output is lost, machinery
is damaged, insurance costs increase or
you have to go to court.
HSE monitor the health and safety at work act and they provide information on how to
undertake a risk assessment to prevent hazards and risks from occurring.
11. Health and Safety at Work Act
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which is also referred to as HSWA, is the
primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great
Britain. The Health and Safety Executive and local authorities and other enforcing
authorities are responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of other Acts and
Statutory Instruments relevant to the working environment.
Here at BEATS Magazine HQ, we really follow and enforce this act to all of our
employees because they need to have a good understanding of all the potential
risks/hazards that could occur/happen.
12. Public liability Insurance
Public Liability insurance would cover a business if a customer or member of the public
was to suffer a loss or injury as a result of its business activities and if that person
made a claim for compensation. The insurance would cover the compensation
payment plus any legal expenses.
It is extremely important that I get Public Liability Insurance at BEATS Magazine HQ.
This is because it would be really beneficial to us for when we shoot images outside
and if one of clients or members of staff get injured or equipment or property gets
damaged and the owners claim compensation when we have insurance that will cover
it and save us the money and hassle.
13. How does NME conduct their Risk Assessment
1. Identify the hazards that could potentially occur i.e. crowded photography and
electrical equipment in the way. This could cause someone to trip over and fall and
hurt themselves.
2. Decide who might be harmed and how i.e. Photographers, other NME crew
members and bands and artists (George Ezra). If there is too much electrical wirers
on the floor, they could trip over and hurt themselves.
3. Evaluate the risks and decide on control measures: In order to prevent this from
happening, they will make sure that all wires are not in the way of where people
are going to be working.
4. Record your findings and implement them: NME will make a table/database of all
the risks/hazards and the control measures of what they will do to prevent them
from happening.
5. Review your assessment and update if necessary: They will review all the risks and
then update if they think of anything else that could possibly happen.
14. IPSO stands for “Independent Press Standards Organisation” they handle with
complaints about misuse of the editors code of practice. They took over the Press
Complaints Commission (PCC) in September 2014 when they closed down.
15. PCC/IPSO – What do you need to consider?
1.Initial assessment
2.Referral to the publication
3.The investigation
4.Adjudication by the Complaints
5.Remedies
6.Review of the process
7. Complaints which are not pursued
8. Unacceptable behaviour by complainants and
vexatious complaints
16. In order to make a complaint via IPSO, you have to fill in a form, which is in 4 sections. You
must be as honest as possible.
The four sections of the form consist of:
1. Your complaint
2. How the code has been breached?
3. About you?
4. Review
The reason behind having the complaints form
in four sections is because it will help IPSO
further understand and breakdown what the
complaint is and if it is actually breaching with
the Editors Code.
Source: https://www.ipso.co.uk/oxbxApps/app/complaint1.html
17. THE EDITORS' CODE
All members of the press have a duty to maintain the
highest professional standards. The Code, which includes
this preamble and the public interest exceptions below, sets
the benchmark for those ethical standards, protecting both
the rights of the individual and the public's right to know. It
is the cornerstone of the system of self-regulation to which
the industry has made a binding commitment.
It is essential that an agreed code be honoured not only to
the letter but in the full spirit. It should not be interpreted
so narrowly as to compromise its commitment to respect the
rights of the individual, nor so broadly that it constitutes an
unnecessary interference with freedom of expression or
prevents publication in the public interest.
It is the responsibility of editors and publishers to
apply the Code to editorial material in both printed
and online versions of publications. They should take
care to ensure it is observed rigorously by all editorial
staff and external contributors, including non-
journalists, in printed and online versions of
publications.
Editors should co-operate swiftly with the Press Complaints
Commission in the resolution of complaints. Any publication
judged to have breached the Code must publish the
adjudication in full and with due prominence agreed by the
Commission's Director, including headline reference to the
PCC.
“Sets the benchmark”
connotes for my own
magazine that I need to
consider that all editorial staff
are informed and are aware of
the ethical rights and they
cannot use anything that is
misleading, incorrect or
offensive.
This is “The Editors Code”, that all magazine editors have to fully understand and
follow before producing a new magazine.
Important areas in particular are.
As an editor of a
magazine, it is our
responsibility that we
follow and apply the
code to the
production of all
editorial material in
both printed and
online versions.
I will do this by
making sure that
myself and all
editorial staff are
aware and agree to
maintain all laws
within the code such
as giving out a copy
of the code and and
sending an email to
all staff.
18. Intellectual Property
Every social media network have their own rules based on how to use and not to use the brand’s
logo. For example
You can only use the Facebook ‘f’ logo to refer to:
Your presence on Facebook, such as your Page, timeline, group, app or event
Your implementation of Facebook on your website
Your product’s integration with Facebook, such as ‘For use with Facebook’
Content that originates from Facebook
You are not allowed to use the Facebook logo to publicize anything other than what is listed
above. You also cannot just use the ‘f’ logo by itself. It must be accompanied with a call to action.
Examples of proper calls to action include:
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Facebook
19. Intellectual Property: What I need to consider?
To be able to use the Facebook logo within my magazine, I would have to request permission by filling out a Brand Permission
Request Form. Without filling one of these out, I would be breaking the law.
Source: https://www.facebookbrand.com/request
20. Intellectual Property: What I need to consider?
There is no specific form to fill out in order to use the Twitter Logo, however there is a page on their
website, which the person using it should follow in order to use the logo for online and static
purposes.
There are many guidelines for the correct way
to use the logo which state the don'ts of using
the twitter logo some of then include;
•Don’t rotate the logo,
•Don’t add special effects to the logo,
•Don’t animate the logo,
•And don’t use told versions of the twitter logo.
There are four different formats that the twitter
bird logo can be used which are the blue bird on a
black background, and white bird on a black
background, a blue bird on a white background
and white bird on a blue background. For my
magazine I have chosen to use the letter ‘T’ which
is a blue letter with white stroke effect on a blue
background.
21. Intellectual Property: What I need to consider?
Source: https://about.twitter.com/press/brand-assets
The display guidelines discusses the
do’s and don’ts of how to use the
twitter logo to promote your twitter
account for example;
Do type ‘Follow us on Twitter’ follow by
your @username when your unable to
show the twitter bird.
Don’t use any other form of artwork
from our site such as the verified badge.
22. Case Study Example 1
In 2009, the PCC criticized Woman
Magazine for failing to publish a upheld
PCC adjudication in full and with due
prominence. In this case, the original
article had appeared on a double page
spread over pages 8 and 9. The
publication of the adjudication on page 30
was insufficiently prominent. In addition,
the ruling appeared in a smaller typeface
than the rest of the page, did not make
reference to the PCC in the headline, and
had been heavily edited, with around half
of it not included. This was unacceptable
to the Commission, prompting a further
critical adjudication which the magazine
then published prominently and in full.
23. Case Study Example 2
In May 2009, Take a Break magazine upheld a rare complain under clause 16 (payment to
criminals) of the editors code, which prohibits payments to criminals or their associates,
following the complaint.
The magazine published the story of Christine Chivers, who had pleaded guilty to an arson
attack on the home of another woman, Christine Wishart. The article was based on
information provided by Ms Chivers' daughter, who was paid £1,000, and it included Ms
Chivers' claim that, in spite of her plea, she had not carried out the attack. Take a Break
argued that it was important to highlight a potential miscarriage of justice.
The Commission did not accept the magazine's defence: “It was clear that Ms Chivers' crime
had been exploited for money in breach of the Code…” and there was nothing in the article
of “sufficient public interest to justify the payment… It did not point to any clear evidence of
a miscarriage of justice, and it was not part of a campaign to have the conviction quashed”.
While the magazine was not prohibited from publishing Ms Chivers' story, the Commission
concluded that “the decision to offer payment was misguided and the editor should have
recognised that immediately”.
24. Conclusion
In this section, I have be able to assess location, risks and legal and ethical
issues relevant to my print based media music magazine and also finding
solutions to any risks or issues.
I have provided and presented my locations recce (Photography Plan), the
permission I received from Tony including the interview, who I used his house
to take the images, outlined how NME conduct their risk assessment, using
HSE to help me and gives me ideas of what an risk assessment entails.
I have also explained what IPSO stands for and what they do regarding
handling complaints in the press, within this I have shown the procedure how
to make a complaint. I have also provided the Editors Code of Practice and
two case study examples of when the press have breached against the code.