Location Recce and Risk Assessment

Location Recce and Risk Assessment

In order to find the perfect locations to film for our product, we visited different places to carry out rehearsal shots and watch them back to see if they matched our story plot and whether they were safe/easy to film in. We carried out the same rehearsal shots in different locations to test the lighting, space, sound, framing and mise-en-scene. All of our crew and cast had a responsibility to ensure that a Risk Assessment was carried out. Failure to comply with this assessment could have lead to filming being halted while measures were taken or in extreme circumstances total cancelling of the shoot. Because of this we used a risk assessment in all of our shooting locations.

Health and Safety

In order for both the crew and the actors to be able to film within a safe environment, we appointed Emma in charge of health and safety. This meant her job was to check the filming location before we commenced filming. She checked for anything that could be potentially dangerous on the set, which could do damage to the cameras or harm the actors/us. She also checked the weather conditions on the filming days. She did this so that when filming nothing would go wrong. For example the actors wouldn’t hurt themselves (e.g. in running sequences due to wet conditions), camera equipment won’t get damaged and finally all the people on set won’t become ill.