Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment 

A risk assessment is an examination and analysis of ay risks or hazards that may occur, in our instance of creating a music video, I have taken all of the risks that may occur and what may interfere with our filming and found out who they could harm, the impact of them, the risk management and what could be done to prevent them along with a back up plan if our original risk management doesn't go to plan. Identifying the significant hazards and risks allows us to plan ahead if they were to happen so we know what to do and know any changes we may need to make to our filming, our shots or our narrative. The purpose of each column had a huge impact on helping me plan the filming of my music video and how I was going to structure each piece of filming and how I would film it and what precautions I would need to take. The purpose of the first column, the 'risk', was to identify what the main point and risk was and the main thing we need to look out for and highlight when filming, without any of the details and content into it. It gave us an idea as how we could prevent this from being a risk to us and whether we prevent it before filming so we were way ahead of ourselves and organised if necessary rather then making changes on the day. The purpose of the 'who could be harmed' column was to identify who may have been affected so they knew about the risks at their own alarm in case the risk affected them or our filming. It also gave us an idea on what equipment and iconography could be harmed so we had time to have a plan B if the risk proved harmful to it. The impact column and risk management allowed us to highlight how dangerous and effective the risk and could be and the exact details of the risk and what the exact dangers and harms were. The back up plan column was also to be planned and ahead of ourselves is worse came to worse so we could carry on with filming to the best standard we could to create our content and not waste anytime.

When filming our music video, we followed our risk assessment thoroughly and had it with us at all times in case any of the risks were to happen. One of the risks which came up was the slippery grass and mud which we had to film around and deal with for many of our shots as our chosen settings were filmed out on open fields or gardens where at times, the weather was against us and the rain and cold winter weather meant most of our settings were muddy and we had to be careful we didn't slip over or ruin any of our equipment. In order to prevent this, we followed the structure of our risk assessment and made sure we we're extra cautious when filming and wore shoes that still looked conventional but were safe for the weather conditions. Other then one or two of the ones already identified in our risk assessment, we did not encounter any other risks when filming. I have learnt about the role of risk assessments and how they are vitally important when filming to make sure everything runs smoothly and we do not encounter any problems and if we do, we know how to prevent them. Creating this also helped with our filming and overall production as it meant that no matter if the risks affected us on the day of filming, we were planned and ahead of ourselves to still create our content to a good and conventional standard rather then having to wing it on the day and create something that wasn't realistic or unprofessional.