Risk Assessment

It is a vital part of the pre-prodction process to assess the risks involved with engaging in an activity, and in our case, shooting on location.  Ebony was given the task of contrcting a risk assessment, shown below.

A risk assessment is to make us think of the dangers of the area we are using and how we can prevent accidents occurring and try to stop the things that could go wrong.

When completing the risk assessment, I put the areas to consider into 3 groups.

• people
• equipment
• set

1. Cast members may be ill- this is quite unavoidable but we could make sure we have enough people on standby to cover, or rearrange for another day.
2. Cast members may not turn up- ensure we remind cast of meeting dates nearer the time.
3. Cast members aren’t cooperating- we will make sure that everything is organised in advanced so that everyone knows what they are doing and when so there is little time-wasting.
4. DV tapes not working- we will take spare ones!
5. Tripod broken- due to the genre of the song we wont be using the tripod that often so the shots that may use a tripod could be adapted, but if needed we are able to take more than one.
6. Camera doesn’t work- we could take more than one to save wasting time and having to go back another time to shoot and make sure it works just before we go.
7. Forgotten props- send a message out to remind all involved of what they need to bring and responsibilities.
8. Lighting- we need to go at a time that it is light enough to see any dangers, especially as we are working in public areas with expensive equipment. Also we need the lighting to be good to get a good image on the cameras.
9. There may be too many people around in the parks etc that we are using- this is unavoidable but can be assessed.
10. The weather! although difficult- we need to try not to go in the snow or rain!

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