Legal, Ethical and contractual issues letter.

To whom it may concern,

The purpose of this letter is to point out the contractual, legal and ethical issues with the job advertisement.

First of all there are many things legally and ethically wrong with your application form for apprentice digital video production producer, to start with the name of the job role is very vague. Most of the details about the role are too vague, the salary on the advert isn't accurate at all so whom ever applies doesn't know what they're getting themselves into. The same goes for the hours, it way too big of a time frame for anyone to consider applying. This is a contractual issue because of these things not being clear. There are also some confidentiality issues with filming such a touchy subject, especially because the person applying wouldn't even be working for you at this point.

This contract infringes the equality act because it discriminates against ages and religion, the contract isn't giving everyone applying an equal opportunity. Everyone needs to be given the same opportunities despite age, race or religion. The video idea is a very sensitive topic, which could cause the applicant emotional harm, as well as possible physical harm, if one of the interviewees gets aggressive,  but because they're not employees they would not be protected with the health and safety guidelines. Trade unions could help if this person was an employee and was being treated incorrectly but, once again, they wouldn't be employed so the union could do anything.

Since the applicant won't be employed by you when they are making the short documentary, you are avoiding legal responsibility for that person, especially because it's a sensitive the applicant could get in a difficult legal situation and you wouldn't be responsible, although not illegal, it's highly unethical. Once again this is a very difficult thing to film, and the direction you've given makes it seem like there's a bias, you only want male offenders to be interview, although the vast majority of offenders are male there are still some female, so this wouldn't be fair representation, and would cause social concern. It would be extremely hard to do a respectful re-enactment of events which such a small budget, you clearly have no regard for what the documentary is about.

This also goes against protecting the 18s Ofcom code, because this is being marketed towards young people to could be given a high age rating or just not be allowed to exist. It would have to be done extremely carefully, this would be next to impossible with such a small budget. Because you're showing this video to high school children the target audience is obviously young teens, so you'd have to be very careful with obscenity. The video would probably be given maybe a 15 or and 18 due to the nature of the video, depends on how it is filmed. You have also said to use a popular song for the sound track, this would be completely impossible with the budget, it costs a lot of money to licence and popular song and £20 isn't going to cut it.

Yours sincerely,

Robbie