Letter of complaint

To whom it may concern,



I recently see this application form for a position on your team with for Apprentice digital video production producer. The job role that you have included isn't very clear on what we would be doing. There is more clarification needed, such as the hours, wage and role. The information you have here regarding this is unclear and only shows what the we should be able to manage. Confidentiality clauses say that you must not give other people or companies private information about your employer's activities. However this contact that is going to be given will be a little harder not to talk about. "If successful, you must not apply for other positions", this would prove to be unfair to the worker with them working exclusively to the business on only 10 hours with rather little pay for wages. Furthermore you are religiously discriminating, as you should not get to choose the religion of someone who works for you.

Employment Legislation

You should take into consideration about The Equality Act, this protects individuals from various forms of discrimination relating to disability, age gender and many other things. This is here so that individuals aren't treated less favourably than another people because of their disability, age of gender. The type of person that you have mentioned that you are looking for is of either gender but having to be aged lower than 30. Employment should be based on equal opportunities and the right to be treated without discrimination, especially on the grounds of someone's sex, race, or age.

The employees rights of working in this business are the same as any other, and with the list of task they will have to be able to manage fully on only 10hours also of work. This would raise issues into the health and safety legislation, with high levels of stress that can severally cause damage to people health.

Ethical Issues

The representation of the video that you have requested for us to make raises a few issues. This type of documentary will end up portraying the wrong message to the viewer. The documentary would be based on stereotypes with female victims and male offenders, when this happens the other way around just as much. If the documentary was to be created as asked, then the females would be portrayed that they are weak are are the easiest target to pick on, no matter their size and this only matters because they are female. Then on the other hand the men would be portrayed differently in the sense that they are all nasty and will always take advantage of any female that happens to pass. This will most defiantly be giving the wrong impression to the younger audience.

In the media this would portray the female to always being the victim, even if the role were reversed. Many people don't believe that females are the offenders and the males and the victims, it is still the same.

Broken policies and procedures are able to be avoided by the applicants by using other materials for getting a complimentary sound track rather than a popular music track that is needed for the video, otherwise there will be infringement to copyright issues.

Producing this type of documentary for your chosen audience will raise social concern. This is because this topic it totally obscene and is not suitable for the age range of children at high schools.

Legal Issues
Another reason for why the video should not be created is because it doesn't stand with the regulation and rules of Ofcom. As you have stated in the application letter, the video is to be shown to children at a high school, this already is aimed at people younger than the age of 18. However the topic that you have chosen for the age range is highly not suitable, and will easily harm and offend them. In for anyone who successful makes one of these videos will be violating these codes;

· 2.2 Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience.

· 2.3 Must not offend the audience with; language, violence, sex, sexual violence, humiliation, distress, violation of human dignity or discriminatory treatment.

· 2.4 Programmes must not include material that are glamorising violence, danger or seriously antisocial behaviour. This is likely to encourage others to copy such behaviour.

The reasoning for all of these existing is because of The Broadcasting Act in 1990, which made everyone respect the use of using the television for advertising, filming and programming and so should your requested documentary.

The Obscene Publications Act 1959 is an Act of Parliament for the United Kingdom that significantly reformed the law related to obscenity and whether or not television broadcasting is suitable for the suggested ages they have given.

However I do firmly believe that this documentary that is to be created should not be seen by your suggested age group, as I believe that it would need a BBFC certification. I would at least age rate it at an 18. This is because of the graphic detail that the interviewees will be giving, it is too much detail and information for the younger aged generation.

Also the Intellectual Property Law includes music, literature, discoveries and inventions; words, phrases, symbols, and designs that have been created by an individual, as it is their work. However as you further state in your small print at the bottom of the application letter that you will re-compensate up to the "value of £20 for the production of the video", which of course will take more money than that, and then your company will then have the video taking away all of the rights of the applicant and keep it for the firm.



Yours sincerely,





Jade Medley