LO5 Contingency Plans

Contingency Plans

If presenters are unavailable;

If the presenters are unavailable to be on the show, guest presenter(s) will act as substitutes, the quest presenter(s) will be chosen in advance.

If guest stars are unavailable;

If the guest star(s) are unable to appear on the show, either a substitute guest will appear in the guests place or the presenters will have to deal with out the guest(s) in which case the presenter would go to their back up plan of the radio show/podcast.

If the equipment is unavailable;

If the required equipment is unavailable, we would have to improvise and remove the sections that required the use of that equipment, for example if the desired PC (computer) wasn’t working we would use a different PC (computer).

If the preferred time slot that we wanted to record in is unavailable;

If the preferred time slot that we wanted to record in is unavailable we would have to reschedule the time in which we planned to record in and our back up plan to solve this would be to firstly check if there is a slot of time within one hour of the original time slot and if not we would work our way out from there.

Equipment
If the cost of the equipment is an issues;
If the cost of the equipment is too high, it could affect the production of the show so we would have to take pre-cautions such as making sure we could if need be borrow some from other local stations or people.

If the equipment is faulty;
If the equipment is faulty it could disrupt the production of our audio media product so we would have to take pre-cautions such as additional back-up equipment and make back-ups/copies of all the files.

LO5 Copyright (PRS Licence) and Legal and Ethical Issues

Copyright (PRS Licence);
To avoid any copyright infringements a PRS licence will be purchased as we will be using music, references to programs and possibly examples of programs such as our main talking point 'One Point' however we would of had to gain permission for intellectual property whether or not they are signed to a record label, such as the music that is to be used. A PRS license would allow us to use the intellectual property of artists and bands with of course the permission of the intellectual property holder. This would cost £240 annually.

Legal and Ethical Issues;
The legal and ethical issues we would have to watch out for are things such as profane language and discriminatory representations (discrimination), such as drugs, sex and women. We also have to be specifically careful to ensure we do not mock or offend people as some 'anime' which is the focus of our audio media product can seem offensive and derogative. We will counter-act this by ensuring that we do all the possible research we can to ensure we are not representing an abusive or discriminating or offensive anime. Another method that we would use to counter-act the above issues is the method of production, pre-recorded i.e because it was all pre-recorded we could edit the audio and not have any problems with the above issues and because of this we wouldn't have any issues with interviews or any other audio recording.

As our product is based on anime and cartoons, we must be careful to not feature sound clips etc from the shows, as this is owned by the creators of the show and we could be sued for using it without permission. We also need to make sure that any profane language and discriminatory representations such as sexuality, drugs and gender must be edited out as our show will be released before the watershed (9pm) and also could cause unrest and offend people listening.

LO5 Radio Show Proposal to Sheffield Live