Planning: health and safety

Health and Safety

 

 

 

Because we are working as a part of the school we had to take quite a few things into account. We were told a few basic rules regarding the content of our videos, We are not allowed to show any use of drugs or alcohol, we were also not allowed to show any of the students smoking during our film.

 

 

For a short few mid- long shots in our film we did show the victim carrying a gun, although it was not real. Because we were not allowed to use a real weapon, unsupervised, during our film I made a wooden gun and painted it black so that from a distance it would create a silhouette of a real gun. When we were filming in public parts of Stamford we had to be very careful, so that people did not get worried or think that we had a real weapon with us. When we weren’t using the wooden gun we kept it safely out of the way in a spare camera bag.

 

Quite a few of our opening mid-long shots showed the victim (Harry Preen) running. We had to be careful that he wasn’t running along an unsafe path or road because we wouldn’t want him to be in any form of danger. The first path we used was a farming track in-between two fields, there were a few tractors further down the path but for the time we spent filming none of the tractors moved. If they had been using the path we would have had to move to another area.

 

When we were filming in Stamford we used a cobbled road (to help fit in with the 50’s theme) if the weather had been rainy we would have had to use a different road. Although there were no cars there was a slight slope which would have made running up it a little dangerous if the weather had been different.