health and Safety

All of the health and safety factors we considered during our first filming process remained exactly the same. However we have changed and edited anything that we needed to due to our previous circumstances:

The locations we are using at the school had certain health and safety procedures that we had to go through before we are allowed to film. Underneath the stage and the school basement are both out of bounds for students due to health and safety. This meant we had to get permission from the head teacher as well as the school caretakers. We were each taken through health and safety risks we had to take into account whilst filming in these areas, some of these factors were:

-Removing the trap doors that lead to underneath the stage
-Walking down the stairs leading to the school basement carefully
-Entering and Exiting underneath the stage safely.

We also had to consider other health and safety factors involved with the filming for our opening scene. Screaming, crying, shouting and blood are all being used in our shots that will be filmed at the nature reserve. We realised that a passing citizen may assume someone could possibly be in trouble or hurt and contact our local police service not knowing what is going on. To overcome this problem that may occur we wrote a letter to the local police station indicating filming dates and where we will be filming just in case, as well as creating signs which we would place around the nature reserve whilst we are filming for any passing citizens to indicate that filming is going on. The letter we wrote to the police station and the signs we created are shown below: click to enlarge.



Poster



As a group we decided to put these posters at all of the entrances of the nature reserve we were filming at so that the public were aware of what was happening and wouldnt call the police if they saw our group member Hayden Simmons with fake blood and cuts on him or heard screaming, we also put them at various locations through out the nature reserve.