Risk Assessment Task 10

What is a risk assessment?

A risk assessment is a process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or undertaking. It’s a big step in protecting workers and business as well as following the law. For most, this means simple, cheap and effective measures to ensure your workforce is protected. Risk assessment in the film industry complies with their legal duties to eliminate or reduce risk from their work. These include: 
Defining responsibilities and duties
Having a system for managing health and safety
Assessing and manage risks and
Regularly review the process and procedures for managing risk.


Why have a risk assessment?

If an incident should occur on set of making your film that leaves someone that you have working for you injured mentally or physically it can mean that you could personally be fined or even potentially go to prison because of it! Where as if you have a risk assessment in means that you have taken into consideration everything that could go wrong and write up how you would plan to resolve them so that no one got injured.

Who uses a risk assessment?

The producer is the main person to use a risk assessment as they are the ones who actually produce it. They use it to analyse the risks that may occur within the filming of the film.

Risk Assessment

Hazards:
Slips and Trips
Road

Who might be harmed and how?

Actors and crew may be injured if they trip over objects or slip on spillages
Actors and crew might slip and fall into the road

What to do to manage the risk?

Be careful with spillages and keep wires and objects out of the way to reduce the risk of tripping over.
Stay away from the edge of the path and avoid any objects that you could trip over

Feedback - Miss Spencer

Your conventions of thriller work follows the sme format as the horror work, again I would like to see some specific examples along with a look at the history of the genre. AS this is the genre you are working on I would also like you to connect this to your own work.
Level 2/3 border.

Conventions of the Thriller Genre Task 2.2

A thriller usually consists of a battle between the protagonist character and the antagonist when there is a disruption in the equilibrium. Then the story shows a chain of bad events building tension and suspense for the climax. The aim of the protagonist is to restore justice, while the antagonist seeks to destroy it. Thriller films usually include:

- low key lighting

- shadows
- tension music - building up
- diegetic sound of breathing
- quick/jump cuts
- black and white shots
- montage shots
- close ups
- silhouette
- cross-cutting
- dark clothing
- excitement

- investigation
- violence
- public services - police, army, government
- secretive

The protagonist is often a brave male an the antagonist will have a hidden identity that the audience uncovers as the film progresses. The storyline will be designed so that the audience will think that the events could possible happen to them making them more scared.