Risk Assesment

Our set has not been fully risk assesed however there were already some risk we were aware of from our set which was the amount of glass in the form of test tubes and cylinders whihc while some of our scenes involve running and fighting the risk of knocking off some glass or it being hit was there. How ever we will try to offset this problem by moving the uneeded glass within the shot making paramount to keep continuity and to deter from jumps of props and sets and to minimise the necessity of glas in our production anyway.
Another problem that came to our attention was the lab coats which could cause the actors to fall whilst running during the more action scenes. to keep this problem down and decrease it hazard we decided that the coats should be clipped at the bottom during the action scenes as not to affect the continuity but to also ensure saftey of the actors and group. Along with the lab coats the actors would also be wearing large loose fitting army uniform which could get caught or snagged on corners so we made sure nothign sharp was sticking out for saftey to actors. although if there was corners we covered them with cloth to lessen the risk of the injury.
Here is a picture of the lab coats:

Here is the army uniform used in some clips:



Upon arriving at the various sets we noticed that there were additional risks that we were not aware of before in our planning and therefore had to make changes for the saftey of the actors and the group. during the chosing of the wood setting we noticed that along a proposed path was barbed wire close to the edge which was a high danger risk as this path invoilved the actors running. We therefore decided to move the path to another safer path well out the way of the barbed wire and that path was out of use for all personal. This is a picture of the barbed wire:


Others hazards that were noticable upon arrival was the poles laid around which were a medium risk to the actors as they weren't in hte path however they were on the path into the woods which was used by all members and a no running policy was implied. This is a picture of the poles:


After these hazards were minimised for safety reasons, we had chosen our paths that would be filmed on and all of the paths were chosen due to there safety and look for the production however one path involved going down a steep bank which was a lower level danger hazard then others but stilol needed to be assesed and during that clip the actors would slow down and a rope was used as a hand grip to steady the actors during descending down the bank. This is a picture of the bank:

These pictures show the paths that we used as they were mostly flat with good surface and open space to prevent falling or slipping:
This is path one used in a majority of our clips:

This is path 2 used in some other clips: