While working on a film, there are several times when you must question yourself on ethics. For me, on my particular project for this summer, I worked with children while shooting a horror film. I for one, felt that many aspects of the film suffered because ethically I did not want to subject the children actors to gruesome or scenes that could be scary for them to watch. I watered the project down. While I feel that the project suffered because of this, morally I know I made the right decision. In the future while working on projects of this nature, I will be certain to cast according to knot only what the script calls for but also what concepts in editing I may have.
There are also ethical issues when dealing with sound design and the soundtrack for film. While I have a pretty vast collection of foley sounds that I have collected over the years from working on projects as well as from my recording and producing music days, on occasion I may have to source sounds elsewhere. There are several royalty free sound resources available such as freesound.org, which allow download of user submitted foley for projects under various licenses. With soundtrack selection, there will always be the perfect song for the closing credits that is totally un useable do to copyrights and publishing rights. Sure you can pay publishing to source the song, however it may not be feasible depending on budgets and the overall purpose of the project. So this is where the sacrifice comes in, and another selection is made. There are many very talented up and coming composers and musicians that are looking to be included in projects for the exposure. A great resource for this is actually Youtube, where you can contact the artists direct and initialize communication and create agreements etc.
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