legal and ethical

 legal issues- legal issues mainly refer to privacy laws being put into place in order to protect people's personal information as well as other impacts on the production of a TV programme and film such as copyright which is put into place meaning that permissions must be obtained first in order to use images, music or soundtracks.

Ethical issues- Ethical issues focus on issues including impartiality, bias, privacy as well as the public interest, however these include freedom of speech, stereotyping.

moral issues- moral issues relate to the idea of if there are aspects that have been implemented into media products that may offend a specific group and ideas may be falsely presented and may judge others which goes against the ideas of having morals when it comes to the media and what is shown.

Ofcom regulate television idents through the use of their broadcasting code which is split up into 10 different sections, they regulate TV idents by ensuring what is showcased on tv channels and idents meet their code standards this is to ensure that there is no content shown that may contain any content that may be inappropriate for younger audiences as well as any harmful content that may affect audiences in a negative way in terms of their religion or any generic harmful/offensive content.

aspects that might impact the ident 

Privacy might impact my ident this is due to the fact that the setting for where filming of the ident will take place this is because there will be people in the background who may noticeable whilst the production stage of filming the ident will occur this will pose as a legal issue for the ident because protection of identities will need to be taken care of in order to be able to finish the project without any issues affecting it.

Commercial references on TV might impact my ident this is because of the fact that my ident may contain references that may be similar to actual Tv programmes for my channel meaning that there will have to be changes made to the ident in order to ensure that there aren't any references to commercials that may result in legal issues for the ident.

Protection of under 18s might also impact the ident because the nature of the Tv programme my ident is based off it has the nature of having dialogue that may not be suitable for younger audiences which will mean that the use of language will need to be altered in order to ensure nothing inappropriate is said during the whole ident.