Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

A risk assessment is certainly essential for the production of any media product, especially in relation to our music video. The main purpose of the risk assessment is to prevent any health and safety issues, this is vital for the well being of the public, the actors and the producers. Also, it can be said that the risk assessment is used to promote the efficiency of our filming with risks potentially creating large stoppages with the filming process. Overall, it is highly essential and beneficial to the production process as we can gain an insight into the potential problems, and make sure to avoid them.

Whilst filming we came across additional risks that may have potentially damaged our equipment whilst also altering the production process. In relation to the filming outside, we suffered from the strong winds. These winds could have damaged the filming equipment as it may have blown it over. In order to prevent this we often filming in sheltered areas and leaned the camera on flat surfaces. We also encountered a risk when filming the car scene; when trying to gain a shot of the car pulling into the drive way, there was potential for the car to hit the camera. This was prevented through communication with the driver and hand signals from the cameraman. 

Overall the risks were dealt with efficiently with no problems throughout the production. The risk assessment was a large factor towards this efficiency, it allowed us to plan the risk prevention in advance and meant that we could film shots quicker and with little problems. This meant that we could focus more on the details of shots in order to develop upon the micro elements and the conventions that we hoped to portray. This shows how essential the risk essential was as it highlighted potential faults in the filming allowing us to cover them in advance and focus on the filming itself.