Commissioning longer form content
Where we are effectively commissioning a longer piece of content, for example a photo essay or video diary, we would normally ask our contributors to get permission from anyone who is clearly identified as a main contributor- for example, it would not mean that you would expect everyone in a photograph of the entire school to have granted consent but you might wish to have the consent of the school.
With video and audio, verifiable proof of consent can often be achieved unobtrusively by advising our contributors to record the consent from people they feature. This could be as simple as asking contributors to record a few words from their subject such as “this is for BBC News”, which is easily edited out by us; this shows that the subject realises the contribution is likely to be submitted for broadcasting. This device has been used successfully in Entertainment and Children's programming.