ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the ethical issues that creative individuals face on a daily basis. It explores issues confronting producers, writers, actors and directors. Writers, directors, actors, and producers all have to decide what part ethics will play in their work. The creative team may choose to ignore, embrace, or co-opt ethical issues, but they can not readily deny their existence; sometimes the ethical quandaries lurk below the surface before imploding and creating a crisis. Picture Perfect uses religious imagery throughout to add texture to the ethical issues the film is exploring. The list of ethical issues writers face is a long one filled with many bumps along the road. Making the ethical conflict more complex and less clear-cut creates stronger drama. Some writers start with characters they find compelling and present them with an ethical conflict, while others create a believable ethical situation and then create the characters to suit the conflict.
