Risk Assessment

It is crucial to complete a risk assessment chart previous to filming our music video in order to identify any potential hazards and hopefully discover methods to limit the chance of any potential hazards occurring. We have recognised 5 main potential hazards that could occur and identified how we will stop them from happening. We believe that our safety as a group and the safety of the public is very important. Therefore, when safety is ensured we hope our filming will go as we planned.

Because we have created a risk assessment, this will assist our filming as it will become more efficient. This is because any hazards that are not properly dealt with could waste time when filming which is something we do not want to occur because by wasting time on location we could be spending our time researching or editing our footage. By not dealing with any hazards may effect the quality of our final outcome as it may disrupt shots which we can not edit out.


Below is our official risk assessment chart, in which we documented  potential hazards within the description box and identified how we could prevent the hazard from either developing or worsening if it occurs whilst filming:
 

Did you counter any more risks, while you were filming?

When shooting the initial skate park scene in which the artists boyfriend was alone and drinking/smoking, it began to rain: a hazard we cannot control. We decided not to waste time and stay on location, despite the heavy downfall which led us to be especially cautious with the equipment as it is very expensive. We did encounter a hazard when our actor was skating as the floor was extremely slippery. Due to this, our actor did fall over unexpectedly whilst planning a particular shot, but luckily, he dealt with the fall professionally and fortunately he didn't badly injure himself.

A secondary and final hazard we had to deal with was during the shoot for the sparkler scene. Whilst filming the sparklers we had an incident in which our artist briefly and accidentally burnt her finger when lighting it. This is because she did not wear hand protection which could have potentially minimized this hazard and thus, it may not have occurred. We also had to properly dispose of the sparklers once they were not lit but we did not reach a location to do so for quite some time, therefore we placed them in a plastic bag and waited until we found the correct place which could not leave passers by/dog walkers/young children in potential danger.