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Prezi research task

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ethical issues surrounding The Hobbit

The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey. Over a two dozen animal deaths  unsafe housing conditions for the animals  all claims of animals injury and death are related to unfit housing and feeding of them  these incidents did not take place on camera including sheep with broken legs, chickens mauled by dogs and a house drowning  they tried to hide the injuries e.g. horses rope burn with makeup  animals were left unprotected e.g. dogs attacked chickens  Write a short paragraph explaining why these ethical issues affected audiences. This information may have made the audience feel guilty for viewing/ funding the film. 

Intellectual Property Rights/ legal issues

Trademark Used by businesses to protect brands only need renewing ever ten years  Identifies products or services of a particular source from those of others. Lasts 70 years after death.  Patents  licenses provided by the government  valid for 20 years  If your project is has a patent it means no one but you can make, use, offer or sell your invention  Freedom of informations act Provides public access to  information  held by public authorities. M embers of the public are entitled to request information from public authorities. The government believed this act would create more mutual trust towards to government. However some believe this act creates more anger and blame towards the government as they are being 'exposed' for their wrong doings e.g. spending $2,500 on a child killer's funeral. Data protection act UK data protection law all businesses must conform to 8 main princip...

GOT podcast notes

 Most common classification issue; Strong language, sex, violence, sexual violence, gore, horror, threat, nudity  majority of episodes are classified as a 15 thirteen episodes are 18, one due to a sex scene, two due to sexual violence, four for very strong language, and six for violence  Guidelines say violence should not dwell on the infliction of injury most violence is played by reaction shots rather than capturing the actual pain inflicted e.g. reaction in face would be shown rather than a knife stabbing into someone. limited focus on wound detail, more focus on it would lead to a higher age rating. Eg pregnant woman being stabbed in stomach, focus on this would be brief and undetailed (this episode went from a 15 to an 18 due to the graphics and the focus on the actual injury ) guidelines say 'very strong gory images are unlikely to be acceptable' e.g. man holding onto intestines, pushing organs back inside- this would be an 18 historical or fanatical settin...

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Notes/evalutaion on top tips video

Production WWW: Included a lot of information, informative, met the brief, good editing. EBI: Was more entertaining, information was clearer. Pre-production WWW: Good script, clear story board. EBI: Less procrastination, we gave ourselves more time to film, less background noise, camera focused. Did we meet the brief? The brief was to create a video on our 'top tips on film funding on a low budget', ideally in an informative, creative way. I believe we did this as our script was detailed and we gathered lots of research from multiple websites; meaning we had a wide range of facts, statistics and information. We were creative in films as we decided to have have a different location for each shot, we did this to retain the attention of our audience through the short film. When editing we included lots of effects and writing on the screen How could we improve? If we had more time we would've been able to perfect our script, storyboard and filming. Especially ensur...

Key terms and info

Key Terms and Information Types of Media Production: Television, film, websites, animation, advertising, digital print Types of Brief: Formal Informal : Includes detailed informations about what the client wants the company to achieve, normally remains from unwanted/ unneeded material. Negotiated Contractual : When a client and employer comes to an agreement incorporating the final ideas of both. Tender Commissioned : When large corporations employ a smaller company to create the project/product for them. KEY WORDS Entertainment: Gaining the attention of an audience so that they relax and enjoy the activity Information: Providing facts about a topic or answering a question Promotion: Raising the awareness of a product in potential customers. This in turn can increase the popularity of a brand Revenue Stream: A method of raising money for a project. Revenue streams contain elements of unpredictability, risk and return Sponsorship: Money paid for a brand to be assoc...