{"id":52,"date":"2008-12-03T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lofiscifi.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-01-09T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:24:12","slug":"crossing-our-is-and-dotting-our-ts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/legalities\/crossing-our-is-and-dotting-our-ts\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing our Is and dotting our Ts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> You can see what we&#8217;ve decided to do in <a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/legalities\/no-to-actra-yes-to-releases-maybe-to-cyberhats\/\">No to ACTRA, Yes to Releases, Maybe to Cyberhats<\/a> but I&#8217;ll leave this here for archival purposes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about doing stuff legally with this movie, where it doesn&#8217;t cramp our style. It&#8217;d keep our options open for a broadcast sales, and doing paperwork at the beginning of the process is easier than at the end when I&#8217;ll be wanting to promote the movie and get it out there and move on to the next project. Some issues I have to look into are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If we use ACTRA union actors, we have to clear it with the union before hand &#8212; I have heard differing reports on how difficult this is;<\/li>\n<li>Locations permission forms, rather than just a blind eye turned &#8212; I&#8217;m thinking alleys might be public space, or at least quasi public space, and may not require locations permissions;<\/li>\n<li>We need to get actors and extras to sign release forms &#8212; I&#8217;d like to have them read it before the shoot rather than just thrusting it into their hands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to meet with a couple of experienced movie makers and I expect to have many more bullets to add after consulting with them, but any input is appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: You can see what we&#8217;ve decided to do in No to ACTRA, Yes to Releases, Maybe to Cyberhats but I&#8217;ll leave this here for archival purposes. I&#8217;m thinking about doing stuff legally with this movie, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/legalities\/crossing-our-is-and-dotting-our-ts\/\">More<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}