Group Work Book
Further Research Page 6
Rules and Regulations
When broadcasting your work across a spectrum of different mediums including different channels like the BBC and C4, you must take into account the different rules and regulations that all media broadcasters adder to as well as the individuals rules and guidelines that each company have for their broadcast. If you don't match up to these universal rules and don't match up to the broadcast you will not get A.the funding for your program and B. a platform to show your program.
so you must know where your work is being broadcasted so that you know your limitations and what you can get away with it. For example ofcom ( The Office of Communications) the definition of a child is anyone under the age of 15 this mean anything that may harm or impair the physical, mental or moral development of people under eighteen must not be broadcast at a time when any one under the age of 18 might be watching (pre watershed) this falls under rule 1.1 in ofcoms sceduleing and contact information. Each Broadcaster has to think of apprpriate proadcasting looking at these points
Appropriate scheduling should be judged according to:
- the nature of the content;
- the likely number and age range of children in the audience, taking into account school time, weekends and holidays;
- the start time and finish time of the programme;
- the nature of the channel or station and the particular programme; and
- the likely expectations of the audience for a particular channel or station at a particular time and on a particular day.
There is also rules of using children in programming such as using indecent images of those under the age of 18 as it is a criminal offence even just using them in a photograph or television image that itself is seen as indecent is prohibited by of com law, also in drama or any form of reconstruction where an actor is involved in a scene on an explicit sexual nature the actor must be over 18 or over regardless of the age of the character they are playing.
Consent
if any one used on screen is under the age of 16 in addition to the consent of the child, consent should be recived from the parents or the legal gaudians of the child. though it is not needed for those 16 or 17 it may be still appropriate to see the parental consent, this all depending on the circumstances. If filming in on a schools property or near enough to see the school, the consent shuld be obtained from the head teacher of the school. you would also have to inform all parents of the students at the school when, what and where you will be filming. In certain circumstances, as well as getting the consent from parents, a local authority licence may be reuired before a chold takes part in a program during turm time. If a child role in a film is to perform for example an for entertaiment a licences to perfmore may also be required.
