U27 LO1: Issues Relating To Your Documentary

1.)
Explain what each issue means and why it is
important in factual programmes.
Opinion and bias - Opinions are a statement of interpretation,
a value judgement of something that cant be proved or
disapproved. Bias on the other hand is a more expressive
opinion loaded with emotion.
Fact, opinion, bias (2013) Available at:
https://bconline.broward.edu/shared/CollegeReadiness/Reading/U08_FactOpBias/U08_FactOpBias_print.html
(Accessed: 3 May 2016).

Accuracy is the degree of conformity of a measure to a

standard or true value, freedom of mistake and error.
Merriam-Webster (2015) Definition of ACCURACY. Available at: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accuracy
(Accessed: 3 May 2016).

Balance and Impartiality Not being prejudiced towards any

particular side, reflecting the diversity of all opinions fairly
Brewer, D. (2016) Impartiality in journalism, 7 January. Available at: http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/trainingresources/editorial-ethics/238-impartiality-in-journalism (Accessed: 3 May 2016).

Objectivity and Subjectivity - Objectivity is unbiased and

states reality. Subjectivity is seen to be real through peoples
eyes relying on feelings and emotions instead of what we can
physically say is true
What is the difference between objectivity and subjectivity? (2007) Available at:
https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071226180802AAEHMTT (Accessed: 3 May 2016).

Representation Something that acts, speaks, or is present

officially for someone else.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online (2016) Representation meaning in the Cambridge English dictionary. Available at:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/representation (Accessed: 3 May 2016).

Access Privacy - The right to have access to something

without invading someones privacy in for example hidden
cameras or distressing interviews.
U27 task 4 (2016) Available at: http://thcvibeproductions.weebly.com/u27-task-4.html (Accessed: 4 May 2016).

Contract with viewer a rule that if the producer claims their

documentary is a Factual Programme for example then it must
be 100% factual.

Factual programming (2011) 19 November. Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/954869/factual-programming

(Accessed: 4 May 2016).

2.)
Detail how you are going to overcome these issues in
your documentary.
Overall I think my documentary will be quite biased
towards the performing arts students as they are trying to
help prove my point about the stereotype of the performing
arts industry. However this use of bias is not to try and
offend anyone, its used as a method of explanation
educating the viewer.
My documentary is based on questions, getting to know the
performing arts students so the degree of accuracy will
depend on what they are telling the camera or when they
come to answer my question.
I will also have gathered facts and statistics anyway to use
as a voice over which I myself will ensure is correct,
accurate and believable.
It is going to be balanced, impartial to what people are
saying. But I am giving an overall subjective opinion that
actors arent lazy.
Anything shown in my documentary that ought to have
been checked with first will be. So the studio I need
permission to use, I have already asked the drama teacher
Neil for his time and to sit in his lessons. Lastly, I have
asked my friend to use house for the end of the
documentary.
3.)
Examples of legal and ethical and legal issues in the
press.
Accuracy inaccurate reporting
CNN and Fox News Edition

In the report Hong Kong was located in South America which it

isnt and Obama did not offer to fund a museum dedicated to
Muslim culture. In fact the report on President Obama was
based on a parody website and definitely did not occur in
reality.
CNN were reporting a huge hornet infestation in China when
Hong Kong was replaced in South America.

Biased views and impartiality or lies or propaganda?

Loose Change is a documentary which loos at the 9/11 attacks.
However there is blatant lie running throughout, the lie was
that the terrorist attacks were planned and orchestrated by
the U.S government.
The most recent is Loose Change Final Cut which is more
updated and accurate version of the same blatant lie.
Liable and slander
A newspaper story labelled Sheryl Gascoigne a lying bitch by
News of the World. She then took the article to court and won.
The news groups lawyer Patrick Callaghan, told the judge The
defendant, through me, apologises top Ms Gascoigne and joins
in the making of this statement to assist in setting the record
straight.
Privacy
A story from the guardian saw News of the World hacked Milly
Dowlers phone during police hunt. An investigator, Glenn
Mulcaire, allegedly hacked into the mobile phone of a murdered
girl.
He had hacked into her voicemail while she was missing and
intercepted messages left by relatives, which gave her parents
false hope that she was alive.