In today’s lesson, we looked at legal and ethical considerations for our fantasy brief.

Ethics are a system of moral principles that consider what is good for individuals and society and also described as moral philosophy. There are some films/tv that were released decades ago that were alright at the time but nowadays they would be considered unethical. For example the 2006 film Borat. Filmmakers need to take ethics into consideration because they have a responsibility to be fair and inoffensive and try and be morally correct. They need to keep the wide audience happy with the content they are showing and try not to upset anybody. To try and be truthful of culture and representation. I think my idea is very ethical and has no problems. I don’t think I will upset anyone with my work, the characters are not portrayed as a different race as they are from Northern Europe. I chose to make it this way because I didn’t want to upset anyone with it.

For Legal considerations, I am not directly basing Flames Of Oblivion on other films. But it is inspired by the Lord of the Rings trilogy by following the conventions used within the films. I aim to make my series as original as possible so I don’t get into any legal trouble with it. I can find various non-copyright music on YouTube or other places for animation. I need to make sure the characters are original and don’t resemble other characters from other series and have similar names to them.

Do they look like existing characters?