Final Project Planning - Health and Safety

For my project, I have two main areas for filming. The first is the garages near a street in Framwellgate, it helps paint the scene of the a back alley in Queen's, New York from the suburban feel that Framwellgate has, adding to the verisimilitude of the setting and project.

In terms of the actors, there is little health and safety risk to them since its an open area and is not abandoned. Yet the one problem is the planned scene where Matt would run in from the roof, leap off and land in front of Dacrual in an effort to capture the supernatural effect of the vampire characters. The obvious problem is that is the roof stable enough to support the actor and will the owner of the particular garage allow us to do such a thing so I will need to look closer at the safety of the area whilst try to obtain permission to use it in such a way. Also with it being so close to other houses, when filming takes place I will have to make sure the surrounding people would not mind filming taking place and to clean up afterwards since it is a public place. Signs would be a good idea to put up near the area to warn people that filming is happening so they don't wander into the area and aren't potentially injured if for example fake blood happens to hit them from the blood shooter. In all, its a very safe area for the actors and crew so filming should go of without any major health and safety issues. Noise however, may be a problem. Due to it being an area where many people live, the noise limit can't be too high, especially if filmed later in the day so when filming here, extra planning must be made to ensure that no excessive noise is made.

The other area is some back fields in Framwellgate that lead to some dense woodland. Obviously, more health safety issues can arise when filming woodland but when I did my location scouting, I made sure to pick more open areas or footpaths within the woods so that they are much safer for the cast and crew.

These locations are mainly used from when Matt saves Rose and takes her somewhere safe from Dacrual and explains a few things to her (less in the trailer so not everything is given away) and also for the flashback scene of Dacrual killing Celina which we see but not the reason why so it gives Rose the reason to work with Matt and hunt down Dacrual. Health and safety wise, there is not major problems just the obvious ones like falling down any hills, hitting trees etc. So again its a reasonable safe place to film and any possible problems from noise is less here as its an open area so any potential problems with noise limits are much less strict then compared to the above area.