Dear to whom it may concern
As I was recently job-hunting, I came across your Job application
for the position of digital video production producer and if i were to obtain this job then i hope that the contract would have confidentiality clasues as well as exclusivity clauses as well.
I could see was that it states two things
that are against the equality act (2010), “male/female (aged below 30)”. In particular,
for this one it relates to the age discrimination as it states “The Equality
Act 2010 includes provisions that ban age discrimination against adults in the
provision of services and public functions”. In your contract, it asks of someone
aged under 30 years of age, which is discrimination to ages 31 and above so
clearing the age requirements would be a wise decision. For the second breach
it goes towards the “Religious views” section, it states that you must be of Christian
religious views, and to “promote the ideals of the Christian faith and try to
encourage young people to further contact for help and guidance” it is against
the equality act. In particular the religion or belief section. Only accepting
people of a certain religious belief and to turn down people due to their
beliefs is wrong and against the act, so changing this would stop the breaching
of the equality act. As well as the liability of employees is questionable due
to the powerful topic that is being discussed which is “Date rape”, meeting/discussing
the topic with these rape victims and rapists may be a scarring experience for
either the person applying for the job or the interviewees. So maybe the brief
could be changed to a different topic or have support such as counsellors or
such on hand to assist with the creation of the documentary for the interviewer
and interviewee. Also since the person is not employed by the company. Liabilities
are not available for the individual.
Furthermore, I wish to discuss the content that will be
shown on the short documentary video that could be ethically wrong such as the
representation of individuals and groups as well as the triggering re-enactments
that will be filmed for this documentary. As it states in the contract only male
offenders and female victims. This shows in the documentary that only males can
be offenders and not offenders. Vice versa with females, as this does not show
the truth of how rape occurs. As well as depicting women as weak victims and
males as abusers and criminals. As mentioned in your brief the documentary will
include “re-enactments, dramatizations” of course this will be very triggering
for a vast number of people who may have experienced rape and having young
people who they would relate to and talking about their rape experiences may
cause mass hysteria of enraged parents and also some parents may not want their childs experiences recorded down and released to the public for all to hear.
As well as the issues discussed above there is the legal
issues such as protection of under 18s and harm and offense. As it states in
the Ofcom code “Programmes must not include material (whether in individual
programmes or in programmes taken together) which, taking into account the
context, condones or glamorises violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial
behaviour and is likely to encourage others to copy such behaviour.” This means
that any re-enactments that are shown are to be mild and not fully shown in
case it breaches the Ofcom code. Then as it says regarding under 18s “Due care
must be taken over the physical and emotional welfare and dignity of people
under 18 taking part in programmes, irrespective of their parents' consent.” As
I mentioned recently earlier on in the letter interviewing with under 18s may
be emotionally scarring for them so additional support by the company for this
would be a good thing to have. I believe that this documentary would be viewed
as obscene because it would go against the Obscene Publications Act 1959. This documentary
would receive a 15 rating from the BBFC due to its scarring content and touchy
subject, also no one under 15 would learn about this however there may be instances in which they are shown for educational purposes as the BBFC states " It is not actually illegal for schools to show BBFC-rated videos, DVDs or Blu-rays to its pupils of any age,we would, however, strongly discourage such a practice unless (a) the children in question are only a year or so below the age stated on the certificate, and (b) there is a serious educational purpose to showing the recording." Finally, I wish to
discuss the part where it says it needs a “popular music soundtrack that will appeal
to the target audience”. since the only funds we get is £20 I believe that it
is not enough to acquire copyright claims on these tracks since any “popular”
music today is part of an intellectual property and must be paid for in order
to be used as well as that some people that use copyrighted music might have an advantage against the people who don't in this job task.
Yours sincerely
Lochlan Morrison
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