In regard to protecting the subject a documentary maker should look at the subject in a more in-depth term and connect with their subject on a more humane level in regards to how they work with the subject and how they tell the story. So when you are trying to tell someone’s story you want it to be the best story and not harm the subject because of the documentary, an example of this would be reshooting an interview because you wanted more emotion. But because of this reshoot this could hurt the subject mentally and further affect the rest of the documentary and the subject. The subject is more than a story but a person so a humane connection will help this.

This would be a case by case basis but sharing decision making with the subject, because if the subject signs a consent form to allowing you full editorial consent over the documentary they wouldn’t need to see anything because a celebrity might want to focus on their image over the documentary. But for someone else who you can share editorial consent so they can look at the documentary and share their concerns of anything in the documentary. However, because of the humane connection with the subject you can sit down with the subject and try and talk through their concerns and try and give your reasoning, then if you can see the distress of the subject you can work out a solution. Because of this connection you can gain more trust of the subject and this can help you later down the line.

Payment in a documentary could be seen as very controversial situation and would need to come down to a case by case basis. This is because to some subjects a payment could alter how they tell their story and alter what they show because they have something to gain from this, this could hurt the documentary because the story you are trying to tell and the story you’re trying to show to the audience. However, to some subjects you can give them payments later down the line after you’ve ben given the story after you’ve been given the access and know that the payment wont affect the documentary and change how the story is being moulded. There’s another issue, because you’re telling someone’s story and profited from their story so this could be seen as an ethical issue in regard to how you use your subject for monetary gain without them profiting from it.

When talking with your subjects and other people involved with your subject you should be completely honest with them and not use any time of deception in how you get access or when you are trying to interview them. Your subject should be informed of how the content filmed will be used, for example not being 100% honest with someone involved because you’re worried that the documentary could be cut if someone was filmed. So instead of being honest you deceive them and don’t tell them. I see this a problem because you are ruining the trust that you’ve worked for and built, yes the documentary could be at risk but as a documentary maker I believe you should try and work with your subject as best as you can. I realise this is a controversial subject because some documentary makers would care more about the documentary and wanting to finish that to the best degree.

When editing the documentary, you shouldn’t frame any of the edits and cuts to badly portray someone without context. By this I mean you shouldn’t leave out any further parts of the conversation to try and tell the story one way because by this you would be deceiving the subject whilst also deceiving the audience, because context is very important and someone can be changed based on a small piece of an interview in how someone is being portrayed. This is an important ethical decision, so you don’t badly show off someone. The Ofcom code speaks about accuracy but doesn’t look at the editorial ways that accuracy of a documentary could occur.

Ethical Considerations 
The main ethical consideration that I would need to think about because of the current climate in the world with COVID would be to produce this documentary safely so I would need to record everything from a safe distance, and when it comes to recording interviews I would need to be socially distanced from my interviewees. I would also need to make sure that I disinfect all of my equipment before and after use to help make sure no one is negatively affected because of my actions. I would also need to make sure I wear a mask to help protect my interview subjects and then make sure im disinfecting my hands regularly again to help protect my interview subjects Another ethical consideration would be to get informed consent from everyone involved in the documentary to make sure they are happy and then if Gillingham Ladies wanted to use my documentary the consent is already there and they can publicise it without any worries. I will also communicate with my subject Millie Waud after I have edited the documentary to help keep her trust in me and also communicate with her to make sure she is happy with the content that is shown in the documentary, and then if there are any issues then I can talk with her about it to either see if I can persuade her or find a solution to the problem and find the best solution. Also by doing this, I can protect my subject being Millie Waud in case the club Gillingham Ladies want to publicise this documentary that I do everything to protect the subject to make sure no harm comes to my subject after the potential release of the documentary.  If I get material from other people like photos or videos I would need to get access from the owner of the material that I can use the material within my TV documentary. 

Sadly, because of the effects of COVID and how we've been in lockdown since December moving forward with FB698, instead of doing a documentary I will be taking the second option and going with the directors cut. This is because since we are in Lockdown and unable to attend the campus I would've have the necessary equipment to film my documentary with the aim of it being for TV, the option of radio was there but because of my prior experience with the FB666 and the troubles that I faced during the making of that. I believe that it would be best for me to not make a radio documentary because I feel the quality wouldnt't be up to par with what I would want it to be. So for the rest of FB698 I will be making a directors cut, but I still aim to interview my subject Millie, so that I can use sound bites of that interview throughout the directors cut to help show what direction I wanted to take in my documentary.

How has COVID affected Women's football - A interview with Millie who would've been my documentary subject, and going through how her league was affected because of COVID and how Gillingham ended up separating from the women game.

Can University Students get into the market even with COVID - An interview Steven who was apart from my documentary last semester is currently in his last year of University and got involved with coaching even through COVID.

General talk about racism through a discussion with 2-3 other members of the class, doing over the impact of taking the knee (is it overused / still sending the same message), has the pandemic put more eyes on social media because fans can't be in the stadium.

In the second week of the course I received feedback from my ideas, with Mick liking the idea of the edited tactical difference between managers, but he wanted me to try and do this for more mangers but to look at how Sky Sports would present these ideas. After this email I went back to looking at some ideas that I could potentially do for this assignment, and I came up with some extra ideas being atleast two tactical difference between Chelsea managers being Tuchel vs Lampard and then Conte vs Sarri, because of the difference in their managerial tactics and how differently the systems are played. I also came up with the idea of maybe showing the tactical battle in high profile games like for example a Champions League final, or the constant evolving managerial battle between rival managers like Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho. I also came up with the idea to show off stats for the managers both during their spell at Chelsea and also looking at their past accomplishments, highlighting key players for the managers system.

During the second seminar we also discussed the media days and how the group would be separated based on what we showed our interest in last week. So being in the Non elite sports group and talking about how COVID has affected them, our group split off and talked about what we were all interested in so we knew how we could divide our resources and everyone could get what they wanted from this experience. From this short meeting we managed to find out there was two people including me that wanted to be involved as editors whilst the rest of the team were interested in being involved as presenters. We also came up with two different ideas being a potential podcast or a matchday package. 

On the third week, I started the editing process of my Lampard vs Tuchel video looking at key players and the tactics used for each of these managers during their time at Chelsea. During this process I started off by making the edit including photos of the players but remembered about copyright, and then switched up the work, and took out all of the photos used.

However, on the fourth week, I ended up scrapping what I currently done for the Lampard vs Tuchel video because of how long winded it was whilst the content being boring for me personally. So I decided to remap my idea, which led me down the path to remove the segments of looking at key players and just using the tactics screen to show movement and get around copyright laws since its my own creation. I decided to rename the work aswell to look at 3 characteristics of each managers tactics, since seeing things in groups of 3 is alot more digestible. Onto the newsdays, I agreed to help out a friend within the class with the editing of their project to help go towards both of our portfolios, whilst also setting up aa interview with my friend Steve Hurst who is a third year university student but also a coach at Pagham Ladies FC, with the interview looking at how we will appreciate sports alot more coming out of lockdown.