HEALTH & SAFETY

ISSUESStefan Arbuzinski, Joao Corona & Melvin

Jake Santonil

Lighting Problems

During Production of our Short Film we used lights that are available to

film companies and studios, It provided enough light however there

were some health and safety issues that came with it, such as tripping

over wiring and burning your hand on the lights as the lights easily

became hot.

How we overcame this Issue

• To overcome the Issue of tripping over lighting we bind the wires

together using rubber bands to reduce the likelihood of tripping over

wires.

• To overcome the Issue of burning our hands on the production lights

we used gloves to adjust lighting. We also turned off the lights when

we weren’t filming, as they were generating lots of heat which

affected the crews performance.

Prop Problems (Knife)

A major health & safety issue we had was with the main character

picking up a knife for a scene. If he fell with the knife the production

crew would be endangered, the way the knife is carried also poses a

risk as he could walk into the knife’s blade and we would have to stop

filming.

How we dealt with this Issue

We dealt with this issue by changing the scene from including a knife to

an empty BB gun which was much safer than using a knife and

prevented any casualties from happening which could disrupt filming.

The BB gun was the safer option as, if the actor dropped the prop or fell

on it, then no fatalities would occur as the BB gun is plastic and not

sharp.