Health and Safety Planning and Precautions
When planning the production of our film opening, we had to consider the safety precautions of filming on our location, as we had young actors involved. We visited http://www.hse.gov.uk/entertainment/theatre-tv/film.htm and looked at the health and safety guidlines for Film, TV and Broadcasting. They outlined that we must have assigned roles to prevent chance of risk, so we all had jobs that we would rotate. For instance:
Filming: Alexandra Monitor: Harry Directing: Emili Director of Movement: Melissa
Director of movement was an important role in ensuring that Health and Safety was reinforced, as it was about controlling how and where the actors moved. Specifically in our piece where they ran.
Emili visited the location: A park and forest. She checked the ground that our actors would be running on, by testing out running as well. On the filming day we mapped out the paths that we wanted our actors to move in, so that there was no risk of them falling over bumps or obstacles. We assessed the risks of what we asked our actors to do, and decided it was safe on our amateur film to keep the stunts and action to a minimum.
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By Alexandra Gibson
