LO2 Health and Saftey

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Static Reality will feature the use of drugs and violence, so must adhere to the British Board of Film Classification’s regulations for 15 rated films.

Drugs

Drug taking may be shown but the work as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse
(for example, through instructional detail). The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example, aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

The use of drugs in Static Reality is brief and intends to showcase the characters’ dependence and addiction. It does not promote the use of it and portrays the negative effects of using it, depression, schizophrenia, impairment etc.

Violence

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but the depiction of sexual violence must be discreet and justified by context.

There will be a clip of a fight scene, that won’t show injury. The corpse won’t have any external injury and will just appear dead. This does not breach the regulations of the BBFC.

We will also be using a copyrighted music track, Feel Good Hit of The Summer by Queen of the Stone Age, so the proper legal action must be carried out to request it for use in our trailer. Alex has filed a request to Kobalt; the legal owners of Queens of the Stone Age to allow the use of the track in Static Reality. Other tracks used in the trailer are sourced from Incompetech, provided royalty free and licensed by a Creative Commons license.

We will assure that before entering or taking photos of an individual’s private property, permission is granted from the owner.

The Data Protection of 1998 states that if an individual is featured in photography or video footage, their consent must be given for it to be published or broadcasted. We will make sure that the actors featuring in our trailer will sign a release form.