Acts (using Legal & Union Report) - Pre-Production Flashcards
The flahscards in this pack are little things about all the different acts covered by the legal and union report. This also includes some things as reminders about Regulatory Bodies and non compliance of acts.
What are trade unions?
Trade Unions
Trade Unions are a group of people that come together in order to make changes to their working conditions to better improve people’s worklife.
They have helped give things such as a national minimum wage, better working conditions and regulatations, no child labour, sick days and more.
Name a Trade Union related to the creative industry and some of thier jobs.
Trade Unions
BECTU
* Represent over 40,000 staff, contract and freelance workers in the industry
* a “Union for creative ambition”
* ensures their members that they recieve a fair pay and they do this bynegotiating with employers.
* Organise sick days, holidays, pensions, maternity leave and contracts
What are the BBFC for
Regulatory Body
their main job is to help inform families, specifically parents, about what films are deemed appropriate for specific ages. They have a website that explains their age rating system and what content is allowed to be shown in which categories.
On this website you can also search any movie and find the rating that it had been given and why
What does is OfCom for?
Regulatory Body
Regulates many communication services across the UK. They help make sure in radio and television programmes that they are safe for viewing. They also make sure that people are protected from unfair treatment within these programmes and that they do not have their privacy invaded
What are the ASA for?
Regulaory Bodies
The ASA regulates advertisements shown throughout the UK. They have rules, codes and guidelines for media producers to follow for when they intend to publish an advert and make sure to regulate adverts and research into them to make sure that they are not misleading, harmful, offensive or produce any negative emotions or ideas onto vulnerable audiences.
What are some key points of the Act
HEALTH AN SAFETY ACT - 1974
was put into place to ensure safe working conditions for workers to ensure that they are kept healthy and that risks are minimised. Some of the key points that this act covers and makes businesses put into practice are:
* Risk Assessments
* PPE
* kaing sure staff are properly trained
What is its impact on the industry?
HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT - 1974
The impact that this had on the industry is that a part of pre-production that always must be filled out with care are risk assessments. These must be done for every location that the crew are going to film at because different areas pose different risks and so they require different methods of prevention and different actions to minimise the risk of injury or harm. It also makes sure that equipment is checked and the crew are informed of risks and are trained on how to manage equipment in their field.
What are the key points of the act?
Digital Millnium Copyright Act
makes it so that you cannot create or circulate the information or product itself - products include things such as technology, devices and online services and criminalised the act to prevent it from happening. For example, maks pirating illegal.
What impact has this made on the industry?
Digital Millnium Copyright Act
it gives users more control of their own creations and intellectual property so that others cannot use and profit off of work that they didn’t create or pay to use. It also means that those who are found guilty when being charged with a DMCA Claim receive criminal charges such as fines, penalties and in major and severe cases, imprisonment
