Risk Assessment

In the production and filming of a film, be it home-made or a large budget hit, safety is of the upmost concern. Therefore, it is crucial that a risk assessment is drawn up and filled out before any filming can take place. This is my groups set of precautions and possible risks for our media project.

One of the main themes of our film is suspence. Therefore, we will be doing most of the filming in a forest or similar woodland environment. One of the main problems with filming in such an environment is that there are random hazards, such as fallen trees and tangled branches, among other things. As theses obsticles can be tripped over and at the possibility of breaking equipment or injuring actors/crew, they must be treated with prejudice. As such, we must be careful of where we look and set up for filming.

Another place where we will be filming is indoors on staircases for the first initial shots, where the doodler is sitting and ignoring passers by. This can be seen as hazardous as stairs are, of course, usually used quite frequently by other people. This means that due to the presence of filming equipment in this area, there is the potential for not only the damage of equipment, but also possible injury to unaware people. In order to bypass these possibilities, we will have to film these segments during a time perios where there will be little to no flow of people, meaning that this will have to occur during lesson time.