LO1: Understand the ownership models of media institution (Unit 1)

Time Constraints 

The production of a media product often has a deadline connected to it. Failure to meet this can lead to project failure and financial loss. Therefore, it is important to plan and find resources within your timescale. 

Resources: Filming locations (TV Show), sound studios (Radio), computer time available (Animation and web), actors available (TV show, Film & Computer Games). 

1) Identify: Establish or recognize who or what something is

2) Explain: Give reason/evidence to justify an idea to someone

3) Evaluate: Judge the value/worth of something. Is it good or bad? What works and what doesn't?

Legal and Ethical issues:

Legal: Based on written law

Ethical: What is right and wrong. 

LEGAL Issues

- Freedom of Information Act 2000

- Intellectual Property Rights

- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

- Data protection act 

ETHICAL Issues:

 When planning a media product, ethical issues must be considered so it doesn't cause offence or disturb those who use it links closely to regulation and professional standers.

-Privacy Rights (Using ID to gain information)

-Levels of violence.

-Representation of groups.

ETHICAL Issues: consequences

- Legal action against the organisation 

- Product being banned from sale

- Reputation of the organisation 

- Loss of business 

Why does the media industry in the UK need to be regulated?

-Code of practice: How you should behave in a professional setting

-Protect 'public interest'. 

Regulatory bodies:

1. ASA: Advertising Standards Authority.

2. BBFC: British board of film classification.

3. PEGI: Pan European Game Infromation.

4. OFCOM: Regulates TV.

5. PRS: Performing Right Society For Music.

6. IPSO: Independent press Standards Organisation.

7. W3C:  World Wide Web Consortium.

A 1992 episode of 'Ghostwatch' where hosts went on "live ghost hunts" was said to have left viewers traumatised after witnessing what they believed was one of the hosts getting genuinely killed by a ghost. This received 30,000 complaints. As a result, it was banned from broadcast for a decade.