The Geist:1st Draft

                       

Risk Assessment

Health and Safety

HERE ARE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES WHICH I FACED WITH WHEN SHOOTING MY SHORT HORROR FILM VIDEO.

1. My actor had to run down a stair case therefore running quickly may injure my actor.
Controlling the measures:
- Practising the shot more than 3 times
- Not rushing and taking it slow (however speeding up in editing)
- Everyone on set watching his step
- Making sure the floor/stairs was clear so he doesn't fall and trip on any objects 

2.  Injuries to me or my primary actor resulting from electrical items.

Controlling the measures:

- Make sure no wet hands or bottled drinks etc are near any of the electrical items

- If having the use of dark lighting being very careful around the electrical items

- Making sure not to take the electrical items outside in bad weather conditions

3. Injury from dropping camera and camera equipment breaking (as majority of camera work is handheld)

Controlling the measures:

- Making sure the camera handle was secure on the hand before filming

WE ALWAYS HAD ACCESS TO A FIRST AID BOX AS WE CARRIED ONE ROUND WHILST FILMING ALSO MY FILM AND MEDIA TEACHERS WHO WHERE CLOSE ARE FIRST AIDERS!!!

Shooting Schedule

My actor has a busy schedule and because my mise-en-scene location is the college I could only film weekdays at college and during my Film Studies lessons.

My aim is to get it filmed in a week:
-4th Period on Monday
-3rd Period on Tuesday
-4th Period on Wednesday
-2nd Period on Thursday

Location Photos

• Upstairs Corridor
• Disabled Toilet
• Mac Suite
• Staircase 
• Downstairs Corridor

StoryBoard

Casting and Character Profile

Casting

Name: Daniel Dennis

Age: 16

Occupation: Student

Reason: Daniel is a student in my film class and a good friend therefore having him the character makes the filming more accessible to our film studies class schedules also having Daniel in our class he will know how to portray the character well as he has seen the creation of the character.

Character Profile

Name:  David Grey

Age: 16

Occupation: Student

Description: David is tall and slim with curly dark brown hair. The mise-en-scene of his costume will be casual clothes that he is wearing for college and wearing glasses.He is seen as the stereotypical geek carrying on with his work in class.

Technology I Am Using

SONY HANDYCAM
HDR-CX250E

      TRIPOD VELBON DF-61

The camera films in HD to ensure a good quality video which is essential so it will not let me down in looking professional and visually aiming to look like a real product in the music industry.

I will be using a tripod as it is a very important piece of equipment to my production. It will help me to keep the camera steady when filming and keeps the framing to the correct method. It includes a counter balance so good for moving shots therefore making the shot less shaky than if it was just hand held resulting it to look more professional.

This is the memory card that I will be using, I got this from the college and fortunately I can use this till my project is complete. It's important to have a memory card with at least 8GB to ensure that I have enough filming space to have enough filming to edit and play around with.

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