Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

Risk assessments are created and carried out during the planning stage. The purpose of creating a risk assessment is to identify potential risks and hazards that could occur when filming. In doing so, it allows moderate harm to target the actors and crew that are involved. It also allows you to decide if you have already done everything to make sure that potential harming is avoided and kept to a moderate level of fatality. You identify the risks and problems, and you evaluate how they can be solved or avoided.

During the planning stage of our thriller opening sequence, we carried out a risk assessment to evaluate the potential problems that could occur when creating out film so that no one was harmed. The risk assessment I created can be seen below;

As you can see, i have analysed all the potential risks/hazards that could occur if myself and Krista weren't careful with the way we filmed and set everything up when creating our opening sequence. Creating this risk assessment allowed me to really think about all the problems that I and my partner could face if we weren't being careful. Without completing this risk assessment, i believe that over half of these problems could have occured. I now know how i must stay safe when filming.

When filming our first piece, which we have been asked to re film, we encountered no major risks which is a good thing as we didn't waste any time. Our main scare was that someone would be injured with the breaking of the plate, the small parts could have cut someone badly. The only issue that we did face was that when the person was stabbing the woman with a knife, he cut her top open slightly, however, this didn't affect our film as the torn part was hidden away. When re filming, we will avoid this small issue by making sure the knife is not near the body as the character stabs her.

In conclusion, I have learnt that risk assessments are very useful to create when making a thriller sequence because they allow you to think about what could go wrong and if something bad does happen, you are able to  look back to your risk assessment table so you are aware of what you must do to fix the problem that you may face. Next time when we film, i would make sure that the camera is fully charged all the time, that way we do not have to stop filming due to the fact that we forgot to charge it the night before. Also, we need to make sure that we don't film when it is too light, because we agreed that there should be low key lighting during most of the scenes. This would allow time to be saved as we wouldn't have to edit the background colour.