REECE

It was important to understand and respect health and safety at all times when filming the footage for my film trailer. Every location that I filmed in I had to access if it was safe and what dangers could occur whilst filming or moving the equipment around.

Whilst filming backstage in a corridor on the second floor, I had to be sure that myself and my cast were going to be safe when climbing up the steep ladder to reach the location. I firstly warned my cast about the steepness and assured them to step slowly and carefully. I also had to assure myself to be careful when walking up and down the steep ladder and making sure that any equipment was passed up and not carried up myself. Before passing the equipment it was also important that it was shortened to its smallest setting (tripod) so it was easily accessible.

Whilst filming here, we decided to peer in on the PE lesson going on next door. As Mr Swain was in full costume, we decided that this would be a good opportunity to get a reaction from the girls taking part in the lesson and record their screams! It was important that we did not film the girls screaming but aimed the camera at the floor and just received the audio as we did not have any of the girls permission to be on camera. The outcome would not have been as good if we had warned them we were going to film, so it was important that we took these precautions. This worked out very well, however we never got to use the footage in our trailer as we later on realised it would not have effectively fit in.

In the second part of my filming I had to use a local park to film my nephew. Before doing this I had to access the safety aspects of taking him there and filming whilst trying to keep him and the equipment safe. I decided to take my mum and sister with me to help me film Liam and make him do exactly what I wanted him to do. This gave me a great advantage as I could direct behind the camera to assure the equipment was safe and that I was getting the correct footage that I wanted. This made it a lot easier for Liam to be safe as there were so many people watching him. I made sure that I was not obstructing the public and was not getting film with anyone else in it apart from Liam. I also made sure that I took a first aid kit with me to the park along with all the essentials needed by a 2 year old in case of an emergency.

Whilst I was filming my nephew, Lucy took it to her opportunity to film some footage at her local park with some blue helium balloons. The blue balloons were important to us as they signified a link between the child and the clown who are both filmed holding the balloon in our trailer. It was important that we had some footage of the balloon by itself to enhance the representation and underlying link of the idea we were trying to portray to our audience. It was important that Lucy stayed out of the public's way and did not get them in any footage. To make sure of this she filmed at the end of the park where it is not busy and no one is around.

As myself and Lucy did most of the filming ourselves with few cast members, we really had to use our own initiative to make sure we were being safe in public area's and was aware of the things around us. All filming was successful and no one was hurt or injured during which was down to our excellent planning before hand!