Louche
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I realise that Waynster has, as announced in Meeja, gone wom, but if anyone can answer a small query, I'd be most grateful.
What are the rules about your face being showed on the television?
Do you need to give permission to be shown on the TV? I am asking because I am flummoxed by variance. For example, in a variety of 'Bravo' type programmes about the work of the police, people are often shown being cautioned, arrested, beaten etc. Some have their faces fuzzled out, some don't. Does this mean that the ones who aren't fuzzled have a) signed a permission slip so that they can be seen across the nation acting like a div or b) that as they have been convicted (perhaps) they have no right to veto the broadcast (this seems unlikely)? Not quite similarly, when the news does one of it's ever increasing in frequency The Nation's Health exposes, apparently random obese and/or smoking people are seen wandering happily down the street about their daily business. Are these a) actors paid to be shown as obese smokers or b) ordinary people who subsequently went home from the office only to find their arses plastered all over the news c)people who were so happy for their arses to be plastered all over the news they signed a permission slip?
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I've often wondered about the fat waddlers filmed for the "Britain Tops Europe Obesity Table-Then Eats The Table" stories.
I was going to say that speaking for the camera involves the signing of some kind of permission form, but then I thought of the random people C5 News interview on the street with questions like, "should crime be banned?" Maybe each channel has its own policy.
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There was once an article on Meridian News about attacks on homosexuals in Brighton, and they showed a clip of St. James Street, (which is in the gay area of Brighton), talking about how couples walking up here were likely to be attacked, and they showed a shot of me and my flatmate. Possibly the only straight couple on the road.
Can I sue? I'm not even pretty enough to be a gayer.
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I heard someone mention it during a documentary. That is my feeble source, but I'm sure it's true.
a) is for Americanos in blue jeans and chinos, cos they are sue-happy about that shit. Pour exampler; The photograph of the fat American kid on Fatboy Slims 'we've come a long way baby' is only on the english cover. The American cover has a photograph of his record collection on the front.
H1ppychick
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I was wandering around a shopping mall in Bristol last week sometime on the day that Rachel Stevens of S Club fame decided to do a tour of 7 malls in 7 cities in 24 hours, performing (i.e. miming and wriggling a bit) in each of them, all for charidee doncha know.
Anyway, the local news crew had turned up to film and, I presume in order to avoid any privacy problems like you have mentioned, had stuck posters up at various sites around the building, which basically said "Cameras on site, if you object to being filmed contact a member of film crew". It seems to be like those book clubs where if you don't say that you don't want the Book of the Month then they send it to you automatically and you have little comeback to you.
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NWOD, as a *koff* benwayaccountantdon'ttellanyoneplease, I used to audit those people. So if you were office-based, we may have crossed paths at some point. (This was in 2001 and 2002).
I've noticed you around, I find you very attractive... uhmmm... Would you go to bed with me?
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It's all a vague blur which I have managed fairly successfully to block out. But when I used to visit my team, we were I think on the first floor (is that where Finance was?): turned left from the stairs and through the swipe door (achieved whilst carrying loads of stuff by swinging hip with pass against security plate in a jaunty fashion)
Firstly:
a) aren't those offices grim,
and secondly,
b) I watched a couple of 2002 World Cup games when they played them in the canteen at lunchtime since we were on-site at the time, were you there too?
Everyone else, as you were.
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I was training at the time, also I like football as much as sticking mustard down my helm with a sandpaper wand. This is why asking someone if they want to watch the footie with me, is a sure sign that I like them.
quote:Originally posted by Louche: What are the rules about your face being showed on the television? Do you need to give permission to be shown on the TV? Any enlightenment welcomed...
I can't speak for Bravo etc only BBC, and to be honest I'm not 100% sure about documentary makers either. I think their usage policy is far stricter than in news, requiring permission forms etc. If you're really interested, you can look it up yourself.
quote:Not quite similarly, when the news does one of it's ever increasing in frequency The Nation's Health exposes, apparently random obese and/or smoking people are seen wandering happily down the street about their daily business. Are these a) actors paid to be shown as obese smokers or b) ordinary people who subsequently went home from the office only to find their arses plastered all over the news c)people who were so happy for their arses to be plastered all over the news they signed a permission slip?
Because news is - by its very nature - more immediate and rushed, permission policy is generally more relaxed (you can hardly go around asking victims of a bombing if they mind being on tv and please would they mind signing a form saying so?) although there are fairly strict guidelines in place.
When people are pixelated in news it is usually because they can't be identified for legal reasons - whether that be because criminal proceedings are still active (identity may be in question during the trial), they are the victim of sexual crime etc, or are under aged.
Despite massive advances in graphics technology, pixelation of film is something that the GFX team absolutely hate and it is increadibly time consuming - a 10 second sequence with a face pixellated can take over an hour to render. The more the pixelated area moves around, the longer it takes. Because of this, if we can avoid using pixels we will, usually this is done by using cutaways, clever filming, or a completely different shot.
However, we don't have time to go out filming GVs (general views) for every story, especially wanky health ones, so we have a library full of stock shots of everyday situations. When it comes to people walking down the street, smoking, drinking alcohol, or picking up their kids from school etc we just grab a tape from the library. We can use it as often as we like and permission is generally not needed (although it's often sought informally when first filmed). We usually make an effort for people to be identified as little as possible. If you're trying to illustrate smoking, you can start on a shot of a fag burning in an ashtray or a fog of smoke over people's heads in a crowded bar. But if you're trying to sustain pictures for more than a few seconds, it would become increasingly ridiculous to NOT show people smoking.
A word of warning though if you ever spot a camera in your high street or local bar... I recently had to cut "float pix" of obese people. Bored of the standard shots we've tended to (over)use in the past, I simply trawled through about half an hour of a tape labelled "high street gvs" and edited together a sequence of all the fat people. Now that it's been cut together there is a new tape waiting in the library labelled "Fat people GVs". Imagine how mortified all those lard-asses are going to be seeing themselves on the news every time there's another "Fat Britain" scare!
Simple rule of thumb: Never ever ever ever allow yourself to be filmed by a news crew.
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Louche
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Cheers, Feeesh! That was most helpful of you. I will, in future, endeavour to avoid being fat near any television cameras. Unless I happen to have just been blown up.
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: Cheers, Feeesh! That was most helpful of you. I will, in future, endeavour to avoid being fat near any television cameras. Unless I happen to have just been blown up.
Be careful about the being blown up thing... there are also certain guidelines relating to that.
If we think you are dead, we wont identify you. If you look like you're going to die, we wont identify you. If we think you're really badly hurt and stuff but you'll probably "pull through" we will identify you and your face will probably become symbolic of the tragedy, especially if you are a bit cute. If this occurs and you then do actually die, contradicting the expert medical diagnosis of a trained bbc producer, then you will become princess diana and Elton John will change the lyrics of one of his not very good songs to include your name.
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