Blog 12- Health and Safety

The health and safety risks that are associated with filming such as: wires that are not safely out of the way, so that people can trip on them, these can be a hazard. every time we booked a camera we had to fill out a booking form, this i s that the college know who has the camera and it helps the college to make sure that the camera is under their insurance policy. permission to film in certain locations was required, for example in the TV Studio: this had to be booked.

the weather was also a safety risk as on some days it was raining and this meant that filming had to be done inside so as not to get the camera wet.

we also had to make sure that when we were filing that there were not things around that people could trip and hurt themselves on. not only the people in sh0t but the us operating the cameras as well.

We also had to check when filming in the road that there wasn't cars coming, the way that we did this was that everyone at the shoot had to be vigilant of what was around them and we had to make sure that when a car was coming that everyone and all the equipment was out of the way.

another thing that we did to ensure safety was to make sure that when we moved from location to location that we put all the equipment back into the camera box, folded he tripod up and move the equipment safely to the next location.