Risk assessment

RISK ASSESSMENT OF FILMING

On the 20th of October was our first filming day where we went to the Christ Church in Epsom. We needed to film inside a church as multiple lines of our chosen song for our music video relate to religion and churches. We chose an evening service on a Sunday where a choir would play, a priest would read from the bible and the public would sing along with hymns.

I believe parts of the filming went well where in advance I made a list of the things needed to be filmed in the church so when we were at the church to film I knew exactly what needed to filmed so there was no confusion of trying to remember what needed to be filmed. As a result we got the desired footage we needed to be apart of our music video.

As well as parts of our filming going well some aspects didn't work as well as others. We planned on filming the outside of the church as well as the inside but found the evening service was too dark where on the camera the outside of the church was not visible. This would be the only part of filming we needed which we did not get, therefore will have to go back to the church on another evening but at an earlier time to re-film what we needed to get.

Whilst we were planning our music video we wanted a male priest to be part of our music video as it would relate more to the lyrics and look better overall if it was a male, but on the evening service we went to the priest was a female, this is something we could not control.

Whilst we was filming we came across a few hazards which affected our filming. There was a member of the general public who had mental health issues who became a disruption as he wanted to be filmed dancing and wanted to be in our footage, we had to patiently wait and stop filming every time he was in the view of the camera which resulted in us to keep stopping and starting our filming. Whilst in the church there was also a bat flying around which was a distraction and we had to make sure it was not in our footage.


On the 9th of November Tilly and I went to the firework display at Hook road arena in Epsom. As fire is a big part of our music video I thought that firework night would be a good night to film as after the fireworks there is an extremely large bonfire. This bonfire would look good as part of our music video as having a little bonfire in my garden would not have that much of a great effect.

I think my idea of filming the bonfire worked well as I got really good footage of the fire, the flames, the ash and the smoke coming from the fire. All these different aspects we can use in our music video. The camera allowed us to zoom right into the fire so we got some good shots that were zoomed in, mid shots and establishing shots.

A part of the filming that did not work so well is that we did not have a tripod. This is because it was raining and firework night is always really muddy therefore the tripod would have just sunk and got ruined, therefore I had to hold the camera as still as possible. Another hazard we came across was the fact we was filming with an expensive camera. There are many teenagers around, some had been drinking as well as some not being the nicest of people therefore we tried to keep out of the way of the crowds and film at the sides as a result not bringing any attention to the camera we had.