Risk Assessment - Miss Miller*

A risk assessment is simply an examination of what in your production or work could cause to harm people or the workers. The purpose of a risk assessment is to iron out all the potential hazards and risks that could happen and what you could do to prevent it in order to work in a healthy and safe environment. In reference to my music video, the importance of a risk assessment will inform me and my group members what risks could occur whilst filming. It will provide us with the efficient knowledge or what hazards could happen and how we can prevent them. If we were not to have a risk assessment, me and my group would not be fully aware of the possible risks that could occur whilst filming our music video and we could be in danger or even gain an injury. Therefore, the risk assessment will outline the possible risks and how we prevent them which will make our filming more efficient. 

Above is a table that I created of Microsoft Word. The purpose of the table was to create a risk assessment for the filming of my music video. The layout was simple and there are 5 columns. The first column was where I put down the risks I could encounter whilst filming. Next to it was a column named " Who could be harmed", here I stated the specific participants that could get harmed at that particular risk. The third column stated the impact it could have on the participants and filming and the fourth column explained how I could manage the risk. Therefore illustrating how me and my group could prevent encountering the possible risks. Lastly, the fifth column is where I put down the back up plan for the prevention before, so that I will know what to do after if the first risk management was not effective. The table helped structure my plans as it gave me a step by step run through of highlighting the risks and how to prevent them from happening and overcome them. 

Overall, me and my group followed the risk assessment, as we believed it was beneficial when filming, increasing our safety. The role of the risk assessment informed us the risks that could happen whilst filming our music video, which alerted us when filming as we knew how to prevent them and what our back up plan was. For example, the risk of rain happened when we were filming at camden for a little while, and what we did to prevent it was just put an umbrella over the camera so that it wouldn't get damaged. In addition we made sure all team members and actors wore appropriate clothing to suit the weather that was occurring e.g coats and umbrellas. Therefore, this didn't affect our filming as we were still able to film the shots that we needed when it was raining slightly and also it portrayed realism of the setting because it wasn't artificial. Also, another risk we encountered was slipping on mud whilst filming the bonfire/fireworks and field scene when the artist is singing. We prevented this by checking the weather to see if it was raining on our filming days and if so, we made sure everyone wore appropriate footwear with grippy soles to the scenes so that no one would be harmed and hurt themselves whilst filming. A risk we came across whilst filming was from the smoke canisters. As stated in the risk assessment, the smoke canisters could harm the actors and videographer. When filming the smoke scene, with the first colour, we found that the smoke was hurting the actors eyes when we directly had the smoke placed where they were. Once we identified this problem, we immediately took the advice from the risk assessment of having a practice run of the smoke to see how it'll react like and figured out how the actors will be in it. The conclusion we came up with was by having someone hold the canister whilst the smoke is going and control the direction the smoke came out. Also by doing this there was minimal smoke that wasn't too heavy and the actors could successfully run through it and perform their actions in the smoke. In conclusion, my group did not encounter additional risks and those that did come up were stated in the risk assessment. Therefore our risk assessment was beneficial and effective as it prepared us for what risks could possibly happen and told us how to prevent them.