P4(c) Following Safe Working Practices

Meaning & Purpose : In this section, I will show how I follow the safety solution to each identified risks to prevent risks going to happen.

As half of the shooting process with be done at the outdoor. It is very important that keeping both actors and equipments safe.

Risk Assessment 

On the filming day, I had made sure the weather were perfect which allow me to film at the astro. The picture above I took right before the filming start. Although it was slightly windy on the day I was filming, it was still perfect. No raining on that night, so camera stuff didn't got damaged and actor won't get a cold after filming. 

Even more there were no raining few days before the filming start. The artificial grass was dry and it allowed my actor to run on it without getting slipover. It had reduce my actor getting injury during the filming process.

In the film, I had took quite a lots of shot with boxing as I think boxing will strongly attract the audience who will watch this genre of advertisement. To achieve this scene, I had asked the actor week before the filming start does he know anything about boxing. Unfortunately the actor doesn't know how to box, therefore I had kindly asked a thai boxing coach from our school to give the actor a quick tutorial lesson. It is very important for my actor know how to box correctly as boxing is a very dangerous sports. Actor has high potential to injury himself if he doesn't know anything about boxing and box while filming.

After the quick tutorial lesson, my actor is so much more confidence and able to punch correctly in the film. It reduce the chance of him getting injury.

In the advert, I had also used gym room as part of my filming location. I used the gym weight equipment as it is also related to sports. I had decided to film my actor to do weight lifting. However in reality he is not a very muscular person, to achieve a scene that he is do powerful weight lifting. I had used a very light weight equipment to ensure he can handle the weight without getting injured.

Before the filming begin, a PE teacher had taught him some basic technique of weight lifting to ensure he can do it properly. Afterward, the PE teacher had stranded next to the camera while filming to ensure everything went well.

In one of my scene, I had asked my actor to do a wheel skipping which he will be skipping over the rubber wheel. When the filming began, the actor had referred to me it is quite dangerous for him as he had never did that before. It is very easy to tripped over by the rubber wheel. After that, I decided to use fast forward effect in Premiere Pro when I do my editing. Now my actor can do it in a normal walking speed, it reduces the chance of him being tripped over by the wheel and cause any damage to his ankle.