One Loud Cat Productions

Professional Practise When it comes to making our documentary, it is quite clear that as a team we need to be as professional as possible. Taking care around our primaries to make sure we don't upset or insult them in any way, taking care of ourselves and any equipment we may be handling and of course making sure that we do not break any of the Ofcom or Winchester univeristies rules and regulations. There are several ways we can do this. Are Real Life Superheroes Breaking the Law? "It is the civic duty of every citizen to uphold the law, and real life super heroes are no exception. We always seek to work within the confines of the law. We believe in due process. We do not take the law into our own hands. We have no desire to endanger the public or ourselves. In short, vigilantism is against the law, and we are certainly not vigilantes." (http://www.reallifesuperheroes.org/about/faq/)		Documentary Ideas & Research Photo Essay Photojournalism Research Individual Analysis Critical Reading Reviews New Media Application Documentary Processes Technical Design Professional Practise Blog

It was of a main concern to us when we first started this project that we would be dealing with and possibly working with people who are breaking the law which is already a breach of Ofcom rules. But after researching the topic in depth, I discovered that these people work within the confines of the law to protect the public and ourselves. Any member of the public has the right to perform a citizens arrest; real life superheroes are just taking this idea to it's extremes. Interviewing Techniques When it comes to actually creating our documentary, we will of course be interviewing certain people. Therefore, as a group we need to make sure that we are professionally filming each interview and here are some rules which we should be taking into consideration: Frame the person using negative space, have them fill roughly 1/3 of the screen, on the left or right side. Make sure their "Gaze" is into the Negative space. Leave room behind the subject, never interview someone right in front of a wall. Leave 4-15 feet between the subject and the wall, you will notice the person's shadow disappear from the wall. Watch out for reflections in people's glasses, turn them away from facing the window to solve the problem. The Background influences the way the person is perceived. Build your questions from people's answers. repeat their last few words, ask "open ended questions" ( ones that can not be answered with a "Yes" or "No". For example, "Can you describe?", or "tell me about this...". Ofcom Rules and Regulations (That we will have to be aware of) Of course when we film our project we will be following the rules laid out by Ofcom such as: 3.1 Material likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder must not be included in television or radio services. 7.1 Broadcasters must avoid unjust or unfair treatment of individuals or organisations in programmes 7.7 Guarantees given to contributors, for example relating to the content of a programme, confidentiality or anonymity, should normally be honoured. 2.4 Programmes must not include material (whether in individual programmes or in programmes taken together) which, taking into account the context, condones or glamorises violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial behaviour and is likely to encourage others to copy such behaviour. (See Rules 1.11 to 1.13 in Section One: Protecting the Under-Eighteens.) Tese are some of the main rules we will be taking into cosideration as they are all applicable to situations we face in our documentary.