30th Jan. 15 | Risk Assessment

BROADCASTING & PRODUCTION RISK ASSESSMENT

Production Number:
Site / Location Address:	Lillibrooke Manor, Woodland’s Park, Maidenhead.	Date Prepared	19th Nov. ‘15
Work Activity / Area being assessed:	Film during weekdays, busy on weekends.	Review Date	28th Nov. ‘14/ 5th Dec. ‘15

STEP 1 – How can people get hurt?  Use this list as a check and add other items, unique to your work area, if necessary.  Step back and consider any other Hazards!  Involve others, in deciding what is to be included.
IDENTIFY HAZARDS (put an X to denote those relevant to your area)
Access/Egress (Obstructions / clear routes)		Electricity (inc portable appliances)		Location Catering (food hygiene / storage)	X	Street operations (working on / near road)
Animals (wild / domestic)		Filming from a vehicle		Machinery (cranes / hoists / jigs / hydraulic platforms)	X	Stunts (fights, vehicles, etc.)
Audiences (studio / public)		Fire (building / set fire safety)		Manual Handling		Weapons (guns / knives, etc.)
Communications		Flammable Materials		Noise Exposure - (music, load speakers, etc.)		Weather (cold / hot, etc.)	X
Construction / Maintenance Work (scaffold / rostra / set building / alterations)	X	Hazardous Substances (COSHH) (paints / sprays / cleaners, smoke effects, make-up, etc.)		Restricted Spaces	X	Working on or near water
Costume / Make - up		Heights (inc ladders, scaffolding, roof tops)		Slipping, Tripping, Falling (cabling / lighting stands, props, etc.)		Working Patterns / Work organisation (night working, usual hours, extended hours)
Derelict building (Asbestos / dangerous structures)	X	Lasers / Stroboscopique affects		Special Effects (pyros / smoke / explosions)		Violence (attack and verbal abuse)
Display Screen Equipment (DSE)		Lone Working	X	Storage (racks, shelves)	X	OTHER

A SEPARATE ASSESSMENT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR HAZARDS SHOWN IN BOLD

 

 

 

 

 

STEP 2 - Groups Particularly at Risk: Any of the following groups might be particularly at risk from the hazards you have identified above.  If this is the case record in step 3  as extra control’s may be necessary.
New Employees / Inexperienced Workers	Contractors / Sub-contractors / Delivery Personnel
Members of the Public / Residents / Contributors	Individuals with disabilities or medical conditions

 

STEP 3 – Transfer the details of the hazards identified and groups who are at risk in Step 1 & 2. Now assess the risks from the hazards identified in step 1 by completing the form below.
What could cause HARM? (List here the things you have noted on the previous page)	WHO might be Harmed and HOW? (Remember to include groups particularly at risk)	EXISTING CONTROL MEASURES What do you do already to minimise the risk?	Existing Risk* (See Matrix)	What ADDITIONAL CONTROL MEASURES are required to reduce the risk? (Particularly for High or Medium risks)	Remaining Risk* Once all additional controls measures are in place. (See Matrix)	Who is RESPONSIBLE? & WHEN are these further actions required to be completed?
Construction / Maintenance Work (scaffold / rostra / set building / alterations)	All	Be careful when entering the building; pot holes are around and are dangerous.	Negligible	Enter the building in an orderly fashion but make it look like something out of a film.	Building could collapse and/ or weird things could happen though it’s very unlikely.	Jordan’s fault (I) since I am the one who asked to film there.
Lone Working	Actors	Someone could get hurt; not know what something does (curiosity getting the better of them).	Negligible	Have others standing in with and/ or for you; nearby just in case of any trouble.	Someone could get lost within the house.	The responsibility would be the camera man/ director to keep everyone in line.
Location Catering (food hygiene / storage)	All	Don’t eat or try anything there.	Negligible	Be careful what you do.	N/A.	The person who’s eating.
Machinery (cranes / hoists / jigs / hydraulic platforms)	Actors	Don’t pick up or play with any heavy machinery; rusty and is heavy.	Slight	Avoid any rusty tools/ machinery, you could get hurt.	Get infections from parts flying around the area.	Whoever gets hurt by doing anything to it/ them?
Restricted Spaces	All	Don’t go over what we’re allowed to film; don’t tremble into different areas of the place.	Negligible	Stay in the domain in which we film – keep on track since we have no other place we need to film.	People going outside our filming area.	Whoever walks out of the place to somewhere different.
Storage (racks, shelves)	Actors	Don’t place yourself underneath any racks and shelves as they have a high chance of breaking/ falling.	Slight	Don’t stay underneath any racks or shelves; they have a high chance of falling.	Things collapsing either way.	It’s no one’s fault – depending on how they react or cause this event to happen upon themselves.

 

Weather (cold / hot, etc.)	All	If we divide our filming schedule to certain days, we might have different weather meaning we might have a high chance of wasting time for the certain weather to come back on.	Negligible	Make sure we film a lot on a certain day; certain weather conditions are key as it’ll look odd if we film bits of a scene in different weather conditions.	The weather could change anytime at any day; it’s England so anything could happen.	No one’s fault; it can’t be anyone’s fault for a factor that cannot be controlled.
Derelict building (Asbestos / dangerous structures)	All	Derelict buildings are known to be quite odd with a spooky atmosphere.	Negligible	Be careful with what you do within in the building.	Anything could still happen; due to its haunted nature, things could still unintendedly happen within our surroundings.	Depends on who is not on task and is fooling around; could be anyone.
Violence (attack and verbal abuse)	Actors	Violent scenes may end up with our actors and/ or camera people getting hurt.	Moderate	Be careful on how you both act and what you do within the building; we don’t want anyone getting hurt.	Accidents could still occur during our production of our film.	Whoever caused the accident during the film.

 

 

LIKELIHOOD
SEVERITY	Very Unlikely	Unlikely	Possible	Likely	Very Likely
Negligible (No visible injury – no pain)	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low
Slight (Minor cuts, bruises – no long term effects)	Low	Low	Low	Medium	Medium
Moderate (Heavy bruising, deep flesh wound)	Low	Low	Medium	Medium	Medium
Severe (Major injuries)	Low	Medium	Medium	High	High
Very Severe (Long term disability or death)	Low	Medium	Medium	High	High

19th Nov. '14 | BBFC Movie Ratings

A-S Media Studies - BBFC Movie Ratings

 

What are BBFC Ratings?

The BBFC (the British Broadcast Film Classification) is a way in which the company of a movie or movies in co-operation make a movie title, but have to give the movie an age ratings. For example, movies designed for educational purposes; children’s movies tend to vary in movie ratings, things from U (suitable for all), PG (parental guidance), PG12 (suitable for 12yr olds and over). Though films for the older audience (mature audience too) usually get ratings of 15 (suitable for 15yr olds and over), 18 (suitable for adults) and R18 (adult works for license premises only).

 

Our Movie's BBFCBecause our movie is based upon a horror movie; paranormal and psychological horror to be precise. We plan our movie to have a rating of at least a 15 (15yrs and over). We would like a higher, older rating due to the language and scenes displayed within the opening titles screen. We might include strong language which wouldn’t be pleasant for the younger audience (even with the younger audience, viewer discretion is advised). Scenes could also contain gore and/ or unpleasant events which will be displayed on camera (hence the horror movie).

 

Other Horror Movies in ComparisonThere are different types of horror movies which have different ratings. Some tend to be PG (Parental Guidance) as some children are suitable to watch them For example:

•       Nightmare on Elm Street; Rated 18.

•       Friday the 13^th; Rated 18.

•       Scream; Rated 18.

•       The Shining; Rated 15.

•       Saw; Rated 18.

•       Blair Witch Project; Rated 18.

•       Alien; Rated 15.

•       The Exorcist; Rated 18.

 

ConclusionIn conclusion, from most horror movies analysed, we are going to stick to a 15 to 18 rated film because as we plan on using and developing gory content for the older audience to enjoy – though we’re planning on going to use a rated 15, purely because as much as we plan on having it gruesome and gory, we also want our younger audience to enjoy it too. By all means the younger audience can watch but viewer discretion is a necessity to be able to watch the movie. Not only will it (possible) contain some gory scenes, but language might be slightly strong for the younger audience too. With these elements of a horror movie, we plan on creating both a psychological and slasher horror too; meaning there will be violence going on throughout the movie.

 

 



 

Extras for Planning (Props, Cast, Location, etc...)

Media List: Extras for Planning

Props List:

-          Clothing.

-          Cam Recorder.

-          Pretend Camera.

-          Bags/ rucksacks.

-          Tripod.

Cast List

-          Jordan Hamilton: Actor, Director.

-          Chris Seaman: Actor, Sound Track Executive.

-          Charlie Garvey: Actor, Producer/ Co. Director.

-          Jessica Perkins: Camera Girl, Executive Producer.

Location(s) List

-          Lillibrooke Manor: Barn, Animal-Engine Room (possibly house as well).

-          Woodlands Park: Road.

Pictures of Location(s)

 

Lillibrooke Manor: Barn and Animal-Engine Room. This will most likely be our main source/ location of filming. With this as an alternative place to film (and which will most likely be used due to company finance issues with the house) it’ll most likely give off the same creepy atmospheric feel to the audience.

 

Lillibrooke Manor: The house. The house is notorious for its outstanding yet creepy atmosphere. This manor; the main section of the land. The abundant house still lives within its Victorian-based era due to its olden day ware around the inside of the house.

Treatments

Media Studies – Treatments

Plot of the Story (Structure and Narrative)

The main storyline of our movie is that three to four teenagers plan out a trip with each other, somewhere to stay away in a trip – however they take a ‘turn for the worst’ and stumble across an old abandoned building filled with traps and other nasty and malicious things shown throughout the rooms the troop peruse around in. One-by-one, each person of the gang gets lost within the house and is killed off in a unique but deadly way (such as the Saw movies, but not forced into their demises) – Though with this being said it’ll end on a cliff hanger after two minutes (the maximum time it can go on for). This means we’ll end this on a cliff hanger as soon as they enter the building.

The Film Itself

Our aim is to produce a two minute opening of a horror film. Our film will appeal to the family; but mainly teenagers and will be completed by December the 4^th ‘14. We want our film to be insightful and enjoyable to watch for the audience. We want to create an in tensing film too, so the audience is on the front of their seats wanting more incredible events to happen during the movie. We strive for these things to happen throughout the movie by using iconic sound effects to terrify our audience. We also plan on using a lot of non-diegetic sounds; sounds that are man-made to give of a real effect too. We will also be using regular diegetic music too for the intro of the movie along with the rolling opening titles too. We also plan on using a lot of Mise-en-Scene in the starting scenes too, once everyone collects everyone/ knocks for the others too – trying to give off the effect that they’ve just woken up, or ready to go. We also plan on using effective camera shots and angles to fill the audience in on how the others are currently feeling about this trip. We also will use Final Cut Pro/ Sony Vegas Pro to edit our movie opening. Like said before, we will edit in our diegetic music to fill in the backdrop (preferably once the people are riding to their ‘destination’). We will try and edit the non-diegetic music to become louder on camera (by using audacity or another sound-editing programmer). We want our audience to become an active audience and get them engaged whilst make them enjoy the movie too. Our film will show a message and a moral from what you learnt from the movie; you can explore, but too much can lead to bad things or things you might not to want have to uncover; i.e. death.

Summary: S/N and Film Depth/ Mechanics (How it’ll Work)

- Two minute opening of a horror movie.

- Deadline: Dec. 4^th, ’14.

- Active audience: insightful and enjoyable movie for them – get the engaged and question the film itself. We have a tense structure and narrative too.

- Target market/ audience: for adults/ family; though mainly for teenagers.

- Sounds: non-diegetic gives off more realism to the film and places them in ‘pure terror’.

- Sounds: diegetic for music being played with opening movie titles.

- Mise-en-Scene: comes with acting; want to show the audience how people feel through other objects around them.

- Editing: done with Final Cut Pro./ Sony Vegas Pro. – will help with quality and editing (rough cut edit and final edit).

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