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Risk Assessment

Tripping over wires
We shall be using a cord cover so nobody can trip over the wires and can walk over them safely.

Electricution
As we will be working with technical equipment such as lamps and computers, we shall only be using equipment which has been safety checked by BAM who are responsible for maintaining our Academy. Below is a picture of what this looks like on one of our editing machines.

Spacing

An issue which is likely to occur in the green screen studio is that if there is not enough room for participants in our filming then they may hit their hands if they were to swing their arms without paying much attention. To overcome this, all tables, chairs and other obstructing material shall be moved to one side so the entire area around the green screen is clear.

Science Experiment going wrong

This has a possibility of happening. We will make sure that everybody present are wearing the necessary safety equipment, goggles, jackets, gloves etc. We shall also speak with the technicians carrying out the experiment and see what potential issues we might expect, they will in turn have their own risk assesment which the crew will adhere to.

Spilt Chemicals

We and the technicians will make sure that there are no harmful materials left around the labs. Park Hall Academy employ science technicians to make sure that the facilities are kept safe.

Technical Constraints

Technical constraints which we expect may happen in our production:

• Faulty camera equipment
  We shall test equipment before we book it out.
• Camera's being booked out
  We shall reserve equipment for the dates we will be filming.
• Files getting corrupted or lost
  We will keep several backups and backups before and after edits on seperate locations, Academy Network, personal flash drives, Media External hard drives.
• Editing software might crash
  We will make timely saves on Power Director

Legal and Ethical issues

We need to make sure that the production is within the law and appeals to all manner of people without causing offence. Some issues which may arise include:

• Defamation Laws
  We don't see the advert being libellous or slanderous in any way.
• Secrets
  If we are given or hear any sensitive information about the Science department or Park Hall Academy then we will deal with these in a confidential manner and will comply with the National Secrets Act 1989.
• Copyright
  We will be respecting copyright laws held in the UK as this is where the advert will be displayed. We will use either original content or obtain content to which we have rights and author permission to use. We will comply with this by using open source fonts for branding, obtaining or creating background footage used in chroma key in a fair, lawful manner and any soundtracks we will respect the authors rights to how that is used.
• Discrimination
  As it is illegal to discriminate against anyone on grounds of sex, age, disability or ethnic origin
  when recruiting or in the workplace we will make sure we do not cause offence when casting and we will choose people on the basis of how good they are at acting in front of a camera.
• Representational Issues
  We will make sure we use morals and justify what is right and wrong in the production. We will make sure the Science Department and Skirting Science are seen in a good light and that we do not portray these as something it is not.