Risk assessment for the shoot

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Risk Assessment
Risk Identified Shooting
Location
Responsibility Overcoming or Preventing risk
Weather Outdoors N/A The weather needs to be checked a couple
of days in advance so that we know when
we can ask everyone to be at the shoot
location. We will also need to go outside
and check how much wind there is. As if the
wind is two strong the sound would be
interfered with, this can be avoided at
checking how windy it is meant to be. We
will also check the weather forecast
throughout the shoot to make sure we have
no surprise weather that could ruin the
equipment. Different weather such as rainy
will be needed for our film as rain is a
convention of noir, so we would need to
plan ahead for the rain.
Illness/injury All Kenya/Mathew/
Actors
If an actor was to become ill we would
make sure that we have a reserve actor.
Unless we need that specific actor for a
scene to finish it we would need to
reschedule the filming. In case me or
Mathew become ill at separate times, the
other person would have to do all the
filming on there own. If we were both ill at
the same time we would need to
reschedule the full shoot. If there was an
injury we would have on us a first aid kit to
deal with the injury.

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Unavailable actors or
directors.
All Kenya/Mathew/
Actors
The actors must be reliable to show up to
the shoot, and not let us down with short
notice. Those doing this will set us back
with filming time as we would have to
recast. To solve this problem we must make
sure that we ask actors that we know are
reliable to show up. Another problem could
be that there are actors which could end up
having clashes with the filming times. To
overcome this we will keep regular contact
with the actors and remind them in
advance when the shoot is, and what time
they need to be there. As there are two
directors me and Mathew we could have
clashing times to film, and may need the
camera for different locations. This would
mean that only one of us would be able to
film the scene at once. To avoid an over
clash we will keep verbal contact and we
will tell each other when we need the
camera.
Formatting
malfunction or
memory card full.
All Mathew/Kenya To make sure that the memory card is not
full up we will check before the shoot that
the card is empty. We will also check by
filming for a shot amount of time that the
footage does save to the card. We will need
to have a separate card to make sure that is
the first one malfunction we can switch it
and carry on with the shoot.
Low Battery All Mathew/Kenya During the shoot there may be a case when
the batters become low, if this was to
happen we would need to ask permission to
plug the charger in a socket available. To
avoid this from happening in the first place
we will make sure that the camera is
charged the night before the shoot, and
directly after the shoot as well. We will
carry the charger at all times in case of an
emergency.
Poor acting
performance
All Mathew/Actors The actors will mainly be the fault for the
poor acting, although it is our responsibility
to tell the actors exactly what we want from
them. To make sure they fully understand
what they need to do we will hold regular
meetings to keep them up to date with the
scenes. This will give them time to practice
the scenes.
Broken equipment All Kenya/Mathew As the equipment such as the camera and
tripod will be from the college, we must
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that it is fully functional. Once we have the
equipment we must make sure nothing
ends up broke, as we would then need to
replace the equipment. If equipment was
broke we would need to cancel the shoot
and reschedule to a day which we can get
the new equipment.
Broken
props/costumes
All Kenya/Mathew/
Actors
During the filming if a prop breaks we must
have a replacement this will make sure the
shoot is not ruined. If there is no other prop
available we would need to reschedule the
shoot at a time when we have a new prop
or have fixed the broken one. In case of a
costume breaking we will bring to the shoot
a sewing kit, for minor repairs to costumes.
For a broken costume that is not fixable we
would need to make sure that we had a
replacement or we would have to
reschedule the shoot to a day that we had a
new costume.
Unable to get
costumes/props on
time
All Kenya/Mathew To avoid the possibility of not getting the
props or costumes on time, we will make
sure that we check what costumes we need
a week before the shoot. This will make
sure we have enough time to acquire the
props and costumes. We will also give the
actors there costumes to make sure they
can wear them for the shoot. If the actor is
likely to forget the prop or costume we will
keep responsibility of them. Everything
need for the shoot must be doubled
checked that we have, otherwise we would
need to reschedule the shoot.
Trip Hazards Studio Mathew/Kenya In the studio there are wires which we must
make sure are not directly I the way of the
actors, as they could trip over them. We will
make sure that the studio is tidy and the
wires are to the side of the shooting place.
Also we would need to inform the actors
where the wires are so that they are aware
that they need to be more careful at.
Lighting All Kenya/Mathew When we arrive at our location we must
make sure the lighting is right, as it is a noir
film too much light will not fit the
conventions of the film. However we could
shoot the scene with bright light and we
may be able to edit the lighting.
Unavailable location All Mathew/Kenya The location may be public so we would not
have to check that the location is available
it always will be. But just in case we will go
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nothing has been blocked off. If we were to
film in a restaurant we would need to ask
the permission of the premises owner
beforehand to make sure they would let us
film there.
Location Safety All Kenya/Mathew We will visit the filming placed before hand
to make sure that they are safe locations to
film at. Once we know they are safe we will
shoot there, but again on the filming day
will assess the location just to make sure
there will be no threat to us or the actors.
Public interference Outdoors Mathew/Kenya The public will be around when we are
filming at certain locations, to make sure
we are all safe we will need to assess the
filming location, This will entail looking for
people who way want to steal the
equipment. This may seem a judgmental
thing to do, but as the equipment is not
ours we have to take extra caution to make
sure nothing happens to is. If someone was
to try and steal the equipment this may
injure us in the process which we cannot
allow to happen. Some of the public may
not want to be shown or caught on camera
so we would need to stop filming and
respect the public. We would then need to
reschedule the shoot possibly to a less busy
day.
Traffic Outdoors(
To film
location
e.g.
Peterlee)
Kenya/Mathew When we are filming near a road we will
need to make sure that we are safe from
not getting injured. We will also have to
make sure the actors do not get to close to
the road. The actor could get carried away
with acting and not notice they are too
close to the road, so we will have to watch
them to make sure they are safe. The traffic
could also be a problem when trying to get
to a location. To deal with this problem we
will make sure that us and the actors set off
early to avoid traffic.
Software Post
productio
n editing
suite
Mathew/Kenya The software may be liable to crash when
we are editing our final cut, so one of us will
save the work at 10 minute intervals to
make sure ne editing or work is lost. It may
crash because of how much filming is being
edited all at once.
Film not following
conventions
N/A Kenya/Mathew We will think about the conventions of noir
throughout the filming process. As we
already have an understanding about the
conventions this will not be a completely
difficult task. Making sure we have made
Film not creative N/A Mathew/Kenya

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the film creative but not too creative that
the audience cannot follow, will be an easy
task as we have planned it before hand, we
must make sure the balance is right.
Budget Issues N/A Mathew/Kenya/
Actor
As this is low budget film money may
become hard to find. This would mean that
props and costumes may not be exactly
what we wanted them to look like. We
would have to uses props and costumes
more than once, or props and costumes
that are available. Travelling to filming
locations may cause a problem, as there are
many actors involved in the same scenes.
This could be solved by paying for the
actors travelling expense to the location, or
offering lifts to the locations.