Thursday, 23 March 2017

Katie-Jane Glazier

Katie-Jane set up Newcastle’s first “cat cafe” - a concept popular in Japan, where diners can unwind with a cuppa and a cat to stroke. The business welcomed more than 10,000 guests in its first six months and Katie-Jane has now plans to expand the company. She has good communication skills, this helps her a lot because of her job. Katie-jane had the idea to make a cat cafe because of how much she loves cats. she has raised private investment and also plans to use crowd-funding platform to top up the £40,000 start-up funds needed to launch the business.

Unit 8

Legal and Ethical obligations in the television and film industries



Contracts:


There are a lot of different types of contracts in the media industries, some of those contracts are for confidentiality, this contract is do people who are working in the media don't do/says tuff that they aren't supposed to. Another contract is to make sure that people will be safe and so they know what they have signed up to.


Legal:

Privacy law (human rights act)

The privacy law is a regulation that provides an individual the right to privacy, for example if someone hacks in to someones phone and finds private information about someone/something like the news of the world phone hacking scandal.



Copyright and intellectual property law


Copyright is when something that someone owns in copyrighted so no one else can use it or make some thing that looks a little bit the same of something that is copyrighted, for example if someone writes a song that is the same as another artists song then that will be copyright, if some one has a legal right to publish or sell something then they can but if they don't then they could get sued. another example is on the hang over 2 when they used Mike Tyson's tattoo, the tattoo artist that make it copyrighted the tattoo.



The British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of film classification is a non-governmental organisation, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, etc)

Ethical:


Codes of practice

codes of practice is written regulations that are issued by a professional association or an official body who explains how people working in a particular profession should behave, for example when In a video of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, they where saying inappropriate words and insults to Andrew Sachs granddaughter, also a news company hacked into peoples phones to find out information and other things from people.

Policies and procedures

Policies and procedures are designed to determine and influence all major decisions and actions, all of the activities take place within the boundaries set by them.