I have today been researching for an essay regarding contractual, legal and ethical obligations in the media industry. The basis for my case study was a film called Do Not Erase, which was BAFTA nominated.
The thing is, I didn’t get a reply to any of the four emails I sent to the production team, so I have been left to make my own generalized conclusions based on my own understanding of the media industries.
Luckily, the Blaine Brothers came into college to speak to us students about the short film industry–this acted as a valuable source of information to this research essay. I also found that my experience on a short film called Self Centered–written by Steven Keevil and directed by Kevin Proctor–helped me a lot in this assignment.
The research that I couldn’t gather from the people at Punchi Films has been replaced with research into UK contractual law, health and safety law and someone I know that worked for ITV as an assistant producer, amongst other things that you will find in the links below, if you are interested. You probably aren’t.
Below I will post a list of links and sources relevant to this post and the essay in general:
http://www.punchifilms.com/DoNotErase/howmadeit.html
A talk on the short film industry, The Blaine Brothers, 2010 MidKent College.
http://www.itvjobs.com/sf/asp/content/default.asp?link=1
Zoe Sale – Former Assistant Producer for Tonight, ITV
http://www.lawofcontract.co.uk/contractmisc/contract-introduction.php
http://www.punchifilms.com/DoNotErase/howmadeit.html – http://www.punchifilms.com/DoNotErase/whatweate.html
Crew release form example, http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:JqVMt0LYabwJ:shootingpeople.org/media/destricted/crew_release.doc+crew+release+form&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
Information regarding location agreements, http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/AK.pm/14cinema_contract.html
Crew release form example, http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:JqVMt0LYabwJ:shootingpeople.org/media/destricted/crew_release.doc+crew+release+form&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
Information regarding filming locations, private and public – http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/publicspaces
Steven Keevil: http://onmejack.wordpress.com/
Do Not Erase: www.punchifilms.com
Self Centered: http://www.pollibee.com/
Blaine Brothers: http://www.charlieproductions.co.uk/aboutus/theblainebrothers/index.asp
