LO2 - Be able to generate ideas for an original audio-visual promo

Concept Documents

Mindmap

Mood board

Sketches of Ideas 

Production Schedule

(Here I had to split up the Production Schedule as it was too long to place onto the blog).

Call Sheet

Risk Assessment 

Storyboard

Script

Consent Forms

Location And Permission

The location in which I will be filming in is the Peak District. Since this is a public place for people to enter, I will not need to get permissions to go and film there. However, I will do a risk assessment to outline the hazards that could occur while I am filming my trailer.

Treatment

Legal and Ethical

To make sure that my product follows the laws of legal while also following the beliefs of keeping my product ethical too, there are a set of rules and laws that I must follow in order to not offend anyone with the features that are included within my film and to prevent my product engaging with the law by following their laws put in place.

Legal 

The first legal law that I must follow in order to make my product suitable towards the law is the Copyright Law. The copyright law ensures that a creator has legal right to their original work and if people try to steal their original work then they can get in trouble with the law. To prevent this, I will need to make sure that any images or music that I use within my movie trailer is copyright free by researching websites that have free music to use. Another way that I can prevent this law from happening is to ask the original creator for permission to use their work within my video. For example, if I wanted to use an image or music that has been copyrighted, I will need to contact the original creator for permission in order to use their assets. If they say yes then I will be able to use their assets within my film trailer (However I may need to pay a sum of money to use) but if they say no then I will need to look for a different asset to use, preferably one that isn't copyrighted. However, if I don't follow this law, then I could be in danger of getting troubled within the law and having to pay a sum of money. I will need to ensure within the future that I either ask to use work created by someone else or I will need to look for non copyrighted assets to use within my trailer.  The next law that I must consider when making my film trailer is the Intellectual Property Act. This footage and this overall movie belongs to me as I have created it and edited and spent time editing. Overall this act ensures that my work is protected by people trying to use it without permission, if they wish to use any assets from my product that have been created by me, they will be breaking the law which can cause them to pay a sum of money. However, this act also protects everyone else's work, preventing me from using their work without permission, leading me to have to ask permission. Fundamentally, the Intellectual Property Act protects my work from being stolen from others while the Copyright Law serves as a punishment if I don't ask permission to use others assets. A final law that I must follow in order to create my product is the Data Protection Act. This act ensures that people included within my product will have their privacy secure and supports the idea that their data will be secure. I will do this by locking up their files so that they are secure and safe and then when we are done filming I will shred the contracts and papers so that nobody can find anyones data. This ensures that the actors data who are included within my film are protected from data stealers and ensures that nothing gets stolen and there is no overall data breach. I have also done a consent form so that my actors are aware that the film will be distributed on different platforms that will be seen by the public.

Ethical

However, my product must follow ethical guidelines to ensure that my product doesn't offend any of my target audience. One ethical rule that I need to consider is 'Liability and Slander'. I need to make sure that I don't portray any kind of slanderous acts within my trailer that could damage peoples reputations as this will give my product a bad reputation which will lead to people not watching it, spreading hate about my product and I ultimately won't gain any money from it. To make sure that this doesn't happen, I will need to ensure that I do not include any slanderous words within my script for my cast to read as this will prevent slander from appearing within my video and ultimately it won't damage the reputation of my product. However, liability will cause me to be responsible for the actions of slander within my product which will give me a bad image and reputation. To ultimately prevent all of this from happening, I must not include any phrases or sentences that slander anyone or anything and decline any ideas of adding any deformation into my product whatsoever. Another ethical rule that I must follow is making sure that my product is age appropriate to the age group that I am targeting to. This means that because I am making a horror film trailer, it must be suitable for ages of 15 and above as the horror genre includes graphics and elements such as blood, gore, and death with monsters. People below the age of my target audience will not acknowledge that this product isn't real which could lead to complains from parents. To ensure that this doesn't happen, I will include elements of the normal stereotypical elements such as blood and death as I want to target my product to an older target audience that realise that the elements within my film trailer are not real. This will allow BBFC to give my trailer a suitable age rating so that people can look at this and thinks about whether this is suitable for them to watch or not. 

Issues With Location

On the topic of discussing the issues of my chosen location to film, my location will not allow me to break any laws as I will be filming in the Peak District so because this is a public park I will not be able to break the law by trespassing. I also will not need permission (release and consent form) to film here as it is a public park however I will be mindful to not get any pedestrians within my filming as they have not given me permission to film them and it wouldn't fit with the idea of my film as the group of friends are meant to be in the woods alone so having people within the background wouldn't be ideal. However, discussing some environmental issues, the Peak District contains many hazards that can cause casualties and injuries to the equipment used to film my video as well as the actors. My risk assessment contains some of those hazards that how much they would affect the production on my product, however within the risk assessments their are also solutions to help prevent these things from happening or to think of another solution to prevent me from losing time on production. For example, within my risk assessment there is a contingency of tripping while running, since the woods is quite uneven and not a flat surface, the chances of my actors tripping while running is increased. However, if this does happen, the risk assessment allows me to become more prepared for this sort of situation which is why on the risk assessment it says that I will respond to this by first aid kit and bandages.