Thursday, 28 January 2010

Health and Safety Risk Assessment.

These are the aspects of Health and Safety which we have discussed, and need to take into account when it comes to filming our Thriller opening on location.
Mobile Phones:
- We should all make sure we have the correct mobile phone numbers, and an emergency contact number for all other members of the group.
- We need to make sure that before we go out on location, all of our mobile phones are fully charged, so we can get hold of everyone if needed.

Filming:
- For a couple of our planned shots, we are planning on using high camera angles. This means that on location, we need to find a suitable place (that is higher up than the ground) to film from, which will not put the person filming in any danger. If on the day we cannot find a suitable place to film from, we will have to rethink as a group and decide on a different direction for these specific shots that will cause least effect to the continuity of our scene.

Falling Over:
- In one particular shot, Hannah's character has to fall over. As a dancer and gymnast, she is aware of certain things she can do to make it look as if she is falling over without hurting herself.

Train Station Location:
- On arrival at our filming location on the station platform, we need to double check when the trains are coming to make sure we are not filming when they do. This gives us approximately half an hour between trains to film, taking into account when there are going to be passengers on the platform.
- If there are a lot of other passengers on the platform, we will stop filming and wait until their train has left. If there are just one or two people, we could approach them and explain what it is we are doing, and if they do not mind standing further down the platform then we could continue filming, if any of them have a problem with us filming whilst they are there, we will stop, and continue once they have left.
- Because we are filming at a train station, we all need to be aware of the tracks, and if there are going to be any fast trains approaching, this is not something which we can really plan in advance for, but we will have a group briefing on arrival at the station to make sure we all put our and each other's safety before the quality of filming, as we do not want anybody put at risk.
- We are planning on filming during non peak times, so there are not many passengers at the station, this will hopefully mean the footage we film there should not take too long, and we can cause as little affect on the station's running as normal.

Road:
- When we are filming the scenes along the main road, we need to take into account the cars and pedestrians around at the time. We are hoping there should not be many around at the time we are filming in the evening, and will have to discuss this and how we are going to deal with these problems on arrival at our filming location.

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