Risk assessment UPDATED

Prior to filming our music video I created a risk assessment, this is an examination of everything that could go wrong or cause harm to ourselves and our actors. By doing this is helped us to highlight the hazards that could cause harm when filming and what could go wrong, and made us consider how we could prevent these from occurring so that we work is a safe environment. It is important to highlight and recognise potential risks that may be involved when filming the video so that we can pre think preventions to stop these risks from occurring. By doing this we are trying to put our actors and filming crew in the least possible danger and keep everybody safe. If we did not create  risk assessment then my group and I would be very unaware of dangers and hazards that we may encounter when producing our music video.

While filming we did encounter some of the risks that were outlined in my risk assessment. One of these were that our artists will be cold when filming in skirts and dresses due to the cold weather. We encountered this when filming in claybury park, after the first hour of filming our actor became extremely cold and could barely hold the guitar. We did give her a coat and gloves in between takes however after a while we decided to film the rest of the scene on another day. Another risk that we did find when filming was the general public. It was hard to keep filming the same scenes when the background kept changing (different people in it) to solve this issue we had to wait for it to not be as  busy and therefore the people changing would not change as much. However, as it is hard to pre-plan and consider every single risk that we could possibly encounter, we did have some risks occur that were not expected. This included, the smoke canisters that we used spread very far once dispersed therefore could effect the surrounding public.
 At one point there was two dog walkers standing very close to where we were filming. It would have been dangerous to set off the canisters with the people and dogs around. The dogs may have run over to the smoke, and may have damaged their eyes and breathed in too much smoke. To solve this issue, we approached the dog walkers and explained our situation and they was more then happy to move along so that we could safely release our canisters.
The various columns of the risk assessment made sure that everything was discussed in great detail as we knew what the risk was, who is would harm, the severity of the risk, how we could prevent it and a back up plan. By doing this I had a clear guide of what to do if any of our risks occur, and made sure that all areas were covered. From this risk assessment i have learnt the importance of it because it has made us think about the different preventions when we encounter risks. If/when we encountered the risks outlined we knew exactly what to do to prevent and solves these issues.