Doing this exercise made me realize how much people’s opinions on ethics differs. One of the papers I picked up said, “Not inviting subjects to your public screening.” I thought this should be in the lower middle because it was something bad but not as bad as other things. However, one of my team members thought it was just as important as the paper about making women look dumb. This caused a small debate among our group because we saw not inviting subject to your screening as not inviting someone to come see the film they had been included in at Buck Hall. We didn’t think about not inviting someone to something big like The Academy Awards like our team member did. This gave us another perspective that we hadn’t thought about. Another paper that I thought was important was, “Using music without permission.” A lot of people didn’t think this was a big concern but I thought it was. One, you could get yourself into a lawsuit like Michelle Phan did with her beauty videos up on YouTube. Two, it’s wrong because you’re using somebody’s hard work without giving them the credit they deserve. It’s as if someone used a part of your film in their film, or for their music video, and gave you no credit at all. I think it’s a bigger concern than most people thought it was. I enjoyed doing this activity because all of the scenarios on the papers were hot topics and I was able to see perspectives I hadn’t thought about.
