Technologies in TV and Film

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Ownership Concepts:
Public Service Broadcasting (PSB): Public service broadcasting is a service that has their primary mission to inform the public of different events and happenings in the world. PSB usually get funded by the government. Such as the BBC

Commercial Broadcasting: commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs that are privately owned by corporate media. Commercial broadcasting is primarily based on the practice of airing radio advertisements and television advertisements for profit

Corporate and Private Ownership:Private ownership is funded simply by advertising. Therefore Private ownership's is more able satisfying the company shareholders rather than the public’s interest. as private ownership doesn't get funds from the TV licence they rely on other ways such as product placement, competitions, film and box office income. Many companies are corporate and privately owned.


Global Companies: Global companies are companies that oversee a vast series of products such as time Warner or Disney. they make massive amounts of money from all their films/shows/merchandise and other.

Vertical Integration (owning properties in different sectors):Vertical integration in the film industry is a process through which the various steps of film production are controlled by a single company. This is aimed at empowering the company in the industry. Disney is a good example for this as they have taken several properties.

Horizontal Integration / monopolization: horizontal integration is that it happens when two or more companies which produce the same or similar goods or provide the same/similar services merge together. When all the producers of goods/services merge, they create a monopoly. as well as Vertical integration, Disney have a very strong monopolization because they purchased Marvel as well as Star wars.

Funding Types:
The Licence Fee: the license fee is something you must pay for in order to watch or record live TV programmes on any channel download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand. costing £147 this licence funds new content and new ways of getting it delivered.

Subscription: a subscription is where you pay monthly or yearly for a service to view it unlimited times as the subscription is still running. Companies such as netflix and amazon prime use subscription service.

One-off payment to own product: one off payment to own is purchasing the likes of a DVD or magazine. since you've purchased that item you can watch/read over and over. Dvds exist for nearly every film and are sold.

Pay per View: pay per view is paying a fee in order to watch one specified event such as a sports match. this is better than subscription because you only pay for what you want.


Sponsorship:Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. The individual or group that provides the support is known as sponsor.

Advertising:Advertising is when a company shows off a product that has been or will be released in order to show off their product so people will purchase it.

Product Placement: Product placement is having certain products in a film/show that the company has paid for in order for it to be there. such as if a character was drinking a can of coca cola then coca cola has paid for that being shown.

Private Capital: Private capital is a broad lable applied to any private investment fund that invests in privately held companies such as real estate and other real assets.


Crowd-funding: crowdfunding is the method in which the general public decide to put money towards a film or series in order for it to be released, with more people funding the film or series can have a bigger budget. For example the rooster teeth crowd funded film "Lazer team" was one of the quickest funded crowd funding in history

Development Funds: Market development funds are used in an indirect sales channel where funds are made available by a manufacturer or brand to help affiliates, channel partners, re-sellers, or distributors, etc. Sell its products and create local awareness about the national brand.

Letter in response to job application

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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