Industry and

Analysis of Constraints
How it imposes constraints on media How might it have affected your How it might have affected your
professional production? product negatively ? product positively ?
codes

LEGAL – Health Health and safety is making sure that anyIf I hadn’t had been careful with the equipmentThis affected my work positively as nothing
and Safety employees and/or contributors are workingduring the production of my documentary,went wrong with the equipment during the
in a safe working environment. This wouldequipment such as cameras, microphone orproduction due to fact that I made sure that I
be useful in a media production as there is athe tripod could have been damaged or evenwas careful and looked after the equipment
lot of expensive and potentially dangerousworse, caused harm to one of the contributorsthrough the filming process. Also if this had
equipment so all people working on setthat were involved. Thankfully I made sure thatbeen a professional piece of work, by no one
would have to be competent and fullyI was always careful with the equipment andgetting hurt because of faulty equipment or by
trained to operate the equipment. was always aware of any danger mistakes from the crew, I wouldn’t be in danger
of being sued.

LEGAL – Copyright means that when someoneIf this was a professional documentary, thisHad this been a professional documentary, the
Copyright creates product that they do not wantcould have affected my work negatively as Icopyright law could have affect my work
plagiarised and have other people takehave included several pieces of other peoplespositively because it would mean that by
credit for, by copyright it means that theymusic and footage which means that I could becopyrighting my work I would be able to sell it
hold all rights to that product. This is usefulsued. I have used several pieces of otheron and have it viewed by more people, whether
for a media production as anything that isartists music at the beginning sequence of myit be on the internet or on television. It would
filmed or any music that is created for it,work and at the end. There is also severalalso mean that nobody would be able to take
once copyrighted the company would holdpieces of archive footage that I got off ofmy work and take credit for it because all rights
all rights to them and if anyone would wantYouTube, which have logos on, such as thefor it would be in my name.
to use them they would need permission orSky Sports logo, which means that they can
would have to pay the company. sue me for use of their logo without permission.

LEGAL – Libel To be libel means that you are sayingIf I had said something that was completelyMy work could have been affected positively
something about another person that is notfalse about another person in my work and itbecause by making sure that i researched the
true. However there is a slight differencewas being broadcasted on national television, Icontributors that were featuring in my
between Libel and slander. Slander is whenwould be libel and therefore could be sued. Fordocumentary so that anything I would say
you say something false about someone toexample I had an interview with the Barnetabout them would be completely factual. By
a small group of people, when you are beingF.C. manager Ian Hendon in my documentarydoing this I would not be liable for being libel
libel you are saying it to a much largerand if I said something false about him in myand could not have legal action taken against
audience, by saying it on TV, radio or thevoice over he would be able to sue me as whatme.
internet. This rule is good for a mediaI said would have been broadcasted to people
production because it means when talkingall over the country.
about someone, the presenter will have to
research the person and make sure
everything he say’s about them is the truth
Industry and
Analysis of Constraints
How it imposes constraints on media How might it have affected your product How it might have affected your product
professional codes production? negatively ? positively ?

LEGAL – Data Data protection involves protecting any This would have affected my work negatively as My work was affected positively by the data
Protection personal information of all contributors that are during pre production, we had to fill out a set of protection rule as it meant that I knew what I
involved in your documentary, this involves theircontact sheets for each contributor. This involved could and couldn’t post on my blog. When we
home address, phone number or any credit listing their names, e-mail addresses and were filling out our contact sheets, I made sure
card details. This is useful for a media possibly even mobile numbers and then posting that I did not include any phone numbers as this
production because it ensures that none of them on my online blog. This could result in would mean anyone who saw the post would be
your contributors would have any of their anyone who has access to the internet being able to contact them whenever they wanted to.
information handed out to the public, and they able to see the contributors contact information By not including any phone numbers on my
are protected from anyone who could get a hold and possibly finding out where they live or even blog I have avoided risking any legal action
of their personal information. just to keep contacting them and causing them against myself or any personal distress for the
some distress. Should this happen they would be contributors involved.
able to take legal action against myself for
publishing their personal information.

LEGAL AND It is important to have many people of different This could affect my work negatively as all my However one positive aspect of my work when
ETHICAL – Race races and ethnic backgrounds in a media contributors and people that I used for vox pops it comes to race and ethnicity is that in my
and Ethnicity production as it appeals to a more widespread were all white. This could be considered slightly archive footage, there are images of several
audience. If you have several different races of offensive by people of other races as they might footballers of several different races, such as
people in a particular piece, it shows that feel that it was intended for white people to only Didier Drogba, Glen Johnson & Giovanni. This
everyone has an opinion and people of different feature in this work. They could also feel that shows an understanding of the extreme diverse
races will be able to relate to this. It is Important their opinions are not being represented in this culture in football and the rest of the country.
not to single anyone out because of their race piece and considering that Britain is very Through out my cut away shots of the Under
and not label them with any stereotypes. culturally diverse country with many different 12’s football game it is clear that there are kids
races of people, this would have a serious of different races which shows a positive image
negative effect on my documentary. that includes all races.

LEGAL AND Everyone has their right to privacy. The privacy This would have affected my work negatively My work would have been affected positively by
ETHICAL – Privacy law is in place to protect any information that an because I have used several pieces of archive this law as I have not given out any private
individual does not want being release to the footage from the internet and used in my work. information of any my contributors. I have
public. For example the government will collect All though it could be argued that the footage respected the privacy rule and ensured that
a lot of different from information from everyone was already in the public domain by being on the there is no private information on my blog or in
all over the country but can’t release this YouTube but I still did not get permission to use it my documentary.
without their permission. This is especially which could have put me in some legal difficulty.
important in a media production. Any private I also did not get permission from each individual
information of anyone involved in my work will parent of the children participating in the football
require permission from the me to include It in game, which now means I have shown their
my work. child's face on camera without their permission
which could also mean I am liable for legal
action.
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Analysis of Constraints
How it imposes constraints on How might it have affected your product How it might have affected your
professional media production? negatively ? product positively ?
codes

PROJECT Sticking to a budget is key to a media Having a budget could have had a negative This would have also had a positive effect on
SPECIFIC production. Having budget means that your effect on my documentary as I was would have my work. This is because I may have been
-Budget are given a certain amount of money at the been very limited to what exactly I could have more focused to do the best with what I could
beginning of the production and its your job done. If I needed money to gain access to a afford, with a limited budget, I wouldn’t have
not to spend all of it at once. You’ll have to club like West Ham, this may have been very been able to afford the most professional
draw up a plan of much everything you’ll difficult considering that I would have had to equipment, however I feel that I would have
need will cost and at the end you can see pay for transport and equipment. I would also been driven to make this documentary look a
much you’ve lost or what profit you’ve have been limited to how creative I could have little bit more amateur which would have made
made. been with I wanted to film as I may not have my work seem slightly more unique to other
had the money to afford lighting or better football documentaries that are currently out
equipment etc. there.

PROJECT Technology plays a vital part in media MY work was sometimes effected negatively The technology that was available to me
SPECIFIC - production as it is has grown so much over because of technology mainly during pre- during the making of my documentary
technology the years. It has helped me throughout my production when I tried to upload my work to definitely effected my work positively as the
work this year in all 3 production stages. the blog and I couldn’t connect to the internet or equipment did not break or stop working once
During pre production the use of computers the website that I used to upload was not through out the production process. I also
and the internet proved to assist me with working properly. It could have also let me didn’t have any trouble with the microphone
my blog and all the work that had to be down during production if the equipment had for my interviews which pleased me as some
uploaded. During production the use of stopped working or something had gone wrong people had previously had some problems
cameras and microphones helped make mywith it that I didn’t know about, my filming may with using the microphone in their work.
interviews sound much clearer and not have come right or even filmed at all. During During Post production the programme that I
appeared in better quality than normal. In Post-production I didn’t notice any problems was using to edit my work also affected it
the final stage of production the use of I- that effected my work negatively, however had positively as it made it easier for me to edit my
Macs and the I-Movie programme allowed the programme crashed or the computer I was work as it was such a simple programme to
me to edit my work really easily and put working on had been broken I may have ended use.
different effects and sounds in. up loosing my work.

TV INDUSTRY OFCOM are a non-government This could have effected my work negatively as These regulations did affect my work
SPECIFIC – organization who make sure that all media following these regulations would have meant positively as it gave me an idea of what I could
Regulatory and productions follow their rules which ensure that there would be limitations on my work. and could not do in terms of filming, what
self-regulatory to protect the public from any offense or There may have been some footage from a questions I should ask in my interviews and
harm. These rules include making sure that premier league football game where the referee what I could include overall in my final piece. It
(OFCOM/ BBC) all contributors are paid, ensuring that any was being abused that some viewers may have was useful to know as I was weary of what
material filmed is not potentially offensive to found offensive. It may have also been difficult was going on in the background at Upton
a group of people and allowing the use of for me to do any secret filming. Park, because if I wasn’t people may have
secret filming. wandered into the background of the shot and
started doing or saying something offensive.