Risk Assessment
In any making of a film there is always a risk assessment, this is very essential in horror as you will be in contact with many sharp or dangerous objects. Risk assessment is a fundamental part of managing health and safety and helps you to identify hazards and control the risk they create for those involved in your production. The process requires you to:
- Take the time to systematically look at your activities
- Decide what hazards they present
- Assess the risk of people being exposed to these hazards
- Find ways to eliminate eliminate or control them
We are also aware that we need to be careful and responsible for the people around us. This means we need to ensure others aren't around the area we are using or at least aware that we are filming and could potentially be making a fair bit of noise and using different filming equipment and props, so we would need to be bringing them in and out of the area being used.
When it comes to the filming equipment we have to ensure we keep the equpiment in it's perfect state and condition to stop it from getting broken or damaged. This means being ultra careful when manoeuvring it from one place to another. This can vary from checking to see whether the camera is screwed onto the tripod securely whether you're in the dark or not. You should also be extra careful if you are filming with water, fake blood etc, so it doesn't spill onto the camera and cause it to break.
Emergency numbers:
Police:
999
Gloucestershire fire and rescue service:
01452 753333
Gloucestershire hospital:
01242 222222
- Take the time to systematically look at your activities
- Decide what hazards they present
- Assess the risk of people being exposed to these hazards
- Find ways to eliminate eliminate or control them
We are also aware that we need to be careful and responsible for the people around us. This means we need to ensure others aren't around the area we are using or at least aware that we are filming and could potentially be making a fair bit of noise and using different filming equipment and props, so we would need to be bringing them in and out of the area being used.
When it comes to the filming equipment we have to ensure we keep the equpiment in it's perfect state and condition to stop it from getting broken or damaged. This means being ultra careful when manoeuvring it from one place to another. This can vary from checking to see whether the camera is screwed onto the tripod securely whether you're in the dark or not. You should also be extra careful if you are filming with water, fake blood etc, so it doesn't spill onto the camera and cause it to break.
Emergency numbers:
Police:
999
Gloucestershire fire and rescue service:
01452 753333
Gloucestershire hospital:
01242 222222