4.1 Health and safety practice

Health and safety is important overall, having a risk assessment to reduce the chances of problems taking place. Some of the key risks relating to film production are mentioned in our risk assessment below.

4.2 Explain why copyright is important in the film industry

Copyright/plagiarism is considered illegal and is a big issue within the media industry. This protects the owners original product and any re-creations of it. Any material created originally such as film, characters, art work or soundtracks used are protected. Intellectual property such as logos or names, anything intangible created or used are protected. For example I cannot take film shots by someone else and embed it into my own film unless I have their own personal consent which allows me to use the creators content.

The copyright, designs and patent act 1998 allows ‘the creators of literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, sound recordings, broadcasts, films and typographical arrangement of published editions, rights to control the ways in which their material may be used.’ if this law is abused or broken there is a punishment of prison up to 6 months and/or a fine of up to £50,000 in the UK.

Copyright law and Ip regulation meant we couldn’t use other peoples work for our film without explicit permission from the creator. When making our soundtrack this had to be original made by us.