Research Into Professional Practice

When shooting their are a lot of procedures that need to be taken place to allow production to run smoothly and to ensure you don’t face future issues with your work. The four main key practices you have to ensure have been completed include a risk assessment, Consent and permission forms, Image copyright and NUJ code of conduct.

Risk assessments should be made when going to location shoots to understand the potential risks before going and to also help create a safety buffer to ensure that both you and your equipment is safe as well as anyone around you.

Consent and permission forms need to be completed before shooting your photos to ensure you have permission to shoot in a certain area or to include a model in your shoot to avoid legal issues and to also be certain that you can use your work in the future without potentially facing any issues.

Copyright practices and procedures have to be completed before shooting photos to ensure that all rights to the photos belong to you and to also help ensure your photos can’t be stolen.

For photographers such as journalists they have to ensure they follow the NUJ code of conduct which stands for National union of journalists. The NUJ code of conduct contains 12 rules that have to be followed these include:

1. At all times uphold and defend the principle of media freedom, the right of freedom of expression and right of the public to be informed.
2. Strives to ensure that information disseminated is honestly conveyed accurate and fair
3. Does the utmost to correct harmful inaccuracies
4. differentiates between fact and opinion
5. obtain material by honest, straightforward and open means with the exception of investigations that are both overwhelmingly in the public interest and which involve evidence that cannot be obtained by straightforward means
6. Does nothing to intrude into anybodies private life, grief or distress unless justified by over riding consideration of public interests.
7. Protects the identity of sources who supply information in confidence and material gathered in the course of the work.
8. Resists threats or any other inducements to influence, disort or suppress information gained in the course of their duties before the information is public knowledge
9. Produces no material likely to lead to hatred or discrimination on the grounds of a persons age, gender, race, colour,legal status, disability, marital status or sexual orientation.
10. Does not by way of statement or voice or appearance endorsed by advertisement any commercial product or service save for the promotion of their own work or by the medium by which they’re employed.
11. A journalist shall normally seek the consent of an appropriate adult when interviewing or photographing a child for a story about their welfare
12. Avoid plagiarism