Task 17: Props, Location and Fashion Planning - Risk Assessment

• The above image is myself asking our actors if they could provide jeans as we think that this is suitable clothing them to wear to represent the characters and their backgrounds. All the actors in our production have consented to being featured and filmed and all agreed that jeans were a good choice of clothing for their characters part. We will only need to think about clothing for the legs as we are only going to reveal the bottom half of the actors, although for the character called McKenzie we will show his whole body so we have asked our actor to wear suitable clothes for our representation.

• We are going to use alternative cigarettes instead of real tobacco cigarettes and all alcohol will be purchased by a consulting adult and will be consumed before we use the leftover bottles and cans as props.

• We have asked a woman to do the make up for our actors as this is a really important for our production and we wanted someone who has expertise in the area to do it. The make up artist will be making the bruises for our actors.

The above image is me confirming with my mother that she can supply us with empty cans and bottles as props.

It was important that we had a risk assessment before filming our film to prevent any possible injuries and difficulties. Potential hazards included fires caused by cigarettes, injuries sustained from falling downstairs and hands being cut on glass. To prevent these from happening we agreed to put out any cigarettes as soon as we used them and wore gloves when handling glass. During the production there were no injuries sustained and our studio was left how we found it.

This is where some of the filming will take place. We chose this location as had the perfect physical features we wanted, including a hallway, a bookcase and a door to a bedroom. It also has low key lighting which fitted the mood we wanted to create, as the narrative of our film is dark and mysterious. We wanted a hallway so that we could film some match on action and we felt this location was appropriate as