RISK ASSESSMENT

ACTIVITY	HAZARD	RISK H/M/L	PRECAUTIONS	IN PLACE	REVIEW DATE	REVIEWER
Filming 9 minute documentary on Paedophilia	Falling over when filming the documentary Filming in town centre Weather		Check the area you are filming in and make sure there is no raised flooring or items on the floor that can lead to a person falling over. Keep cameras away from public Do not film near roads Keep camera under cover at all times	Y Y Y	2/1/12 2/1/12 2/1/12	SIVE SIVE SIVE
Please leave this section blank: Risk Assessment checked by:   Name …………………………………………………..        Signed ………………………………………………….     Date ……………………

KEY:      Activity :                Describe the component part of your pursuit.

Hazard :                List the things you anticipate might cause harm or the things associated with your activity that have the potential to cause harm.  Consider the likely harm.    

Risk:                      Assess the risk as either H (High), M (Medium) or L (Low).  When concluding your assessment consider all of the circumstances.

Precautions:        Consider what you could do to minimise / negate the risk.

In Place:                Will the precautionary measures be in place at the time of the activity?

Review Date:      When would it be reasonable to review your assessment?  Remember it might be whilst you are undertaking the activity.

Reviewer:            Name of the person responsible for completing the risk assessment.

A copy of this form should be taken on the activity or visit by the Reviewer.

V9/PALL/sspi/reviewedOct2010

Documentary Proposal

1.	Topic Paedophile victimising young people through social networking sites.
2.	Important questions that need an answer (three or more) How can we stop this? How to do we make the children aware? What are the right ways to deal with it?
3.	Three talking heads (who I will interview formally) Victim ( Georgina Nelson ) Expert ( Councillor ) Victims Parent
4.	Voice-over narration (what I will say about the topic through a narrator) “The UK has over 250,000 paedophiles” “One in every 200 adults are paedophiles” I will show more detail in the voice over to give more effect and make it more dramatic. A voice over will also help if younger people are watching as it makes everything easier to understand.
5.	On-location footage (what I will show while narrating)
6.	The Twist(something cool to impress audience) A twist will be the true story as it will add shock factor to the documentary and make it more dramatic as it will be a real story. We will use all facts and not make anything up.
7.	How I plan to “get it done”. We will start filming the reconstruction first which will hopefully only take one or two days.  We will do this by using 3 actors, the victim, the paedophile and the victim’s parent. We will then start to film other things which will include filming vulnerable places like schools and parks we will do this for shock factor. Editing will take place after we have all the footage and information we will then put it all together and plan out how we will edit it.

Internet stalker profile (and any stalker, especially a male)

If you've been wooed by a cyberstalker, this profile will bring you back to reality:

• lives in a 1-room apartment which hasn't been cleaned for months - if ever
• has stacks of pornographic magazines in his bedroom area
• has poor personal hygiene
• has poor table manners
• has poor social etiquette
• hasn't changed the sheets on his bed for months, which are now best described as crusty
• has a bathroom, the state of which doesn't bear thinking about
• lives on pizza and beer/coke, the remnants of which litter his apartment
• may have an unusual pet (eg ferret) which has free run of the apartment
• is either significantly over- or under-weight
• has a small moustache or other facial hair
• has not held down any job for more than a couple of years, probably less
• has no friends
• has no life outside the Internet

The Internet stalker probably has other unpleasant characteristics that sexual harassers possess, and the usual sexual inadequacy including lack of intimacy, controlling behaviour, no concept of the partner's needs, premature ejaculation, and an abnormal belief bordering on obsession in his smallness.

Warning signs

These are the signs to be alert to:

• expects you to spend all of your time with him/her or inform him/her of your whereabouts
• refuses to accept "no" for an answer
• isolates you from your friends and/or family
• puts you down in front of your family or friends
• sends frequent unsolicited or unwelcome gifts
• makes offers of unsolicited help
• excessive niceness in the early stages
• use of guilt to manipulate your feelings or to force you into courses of action you feel unhappy with
• extreme jealousy
• frequent loss of temper
• abuse of alcohol and/or drugs
• following you wherever you go
• threats
• physical or verbal abuse
• damage or destruction to your property
• talks about violence or is fascinated with themes of violence
• makes your family or friends feel scared or uneasy

Pre-production is what you got to do before your final piece.  This includes finding locations, casting and hire actors, choice characters clothes, rent cameras, lights and equipment. An extremely detailed schedule is produced and arrangements are made for the necessary elements to be available to the film-makers at the appropriate times. You need to make sure you have everything carefully planned and detailed plans. Make sure you have all the documentation which would be contracts if you hired actors and staff. Also you need a storyboard to keep everything running smoothly and so you do not forget anything.

A documentary film is a movie that attempts, in some way, to document reality. Even though the scenes are carefully chosen and arranged, they are not scripted, and the people in a documentary film are not actors. Sometimes, a documentary film may rely on voice-over narration to describe what is happening in the footage; in other films, the footage will speak for itself. Often, a documentary film will include interviews with the people in the film.

Examples:

A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A news program can include live or recorded interviews by field reporters, expert opinions, opinion poll results, and occasional editorial content.

Examples:

A factual programme is a factual documentary that is nothing but facts. They would use experts and research to show a point.

No filming activity should take place until permissions have been granted by all the relevant parties. The production company must ensure that all those affected by filming have been consulted and informed of arrangements. Wherever possible, Notice of Intent to Film should be given after initial location recce or with productions with a short lead-in time, notice of at least one week should be given.
1. Canterbury City Council must be informed of all filming activity due to take place on public or private property within their area and provided with details of the following:
a) the name of the production company, the type of production and a contact person and telephone number 
b) the scale of the production in terms of numbers of personnel and vehicles 
c) the removal, alteration and disguising of street furniture and carriageway markings 
d) the use of cranes, aircraft, cherrypickers, track, low-loaders, 'A' frames and other potentially hazardous equipment in a public place. 
e) the parking of production vehicles on yellow lines, in meter bays or residents' bays 
f) the use of special effects, rain or snow machines, wet downs and stunt work on public footways or carriageways 
g) productions which depict subjects of a controversial nature 
h) filming involving children or animals 
i) adequate public liability insurance and other relevant insurances 

2. Local police must be informed of filming activity within their districts. In addition to advising the police of points 1 (a)-(h) above, special guidance should be sought with the following. 
a) the staging of crimes, accidents or use of firearms. 
b) the dressing of artistes in police uniforms. It is an offence to impersonate a police officer and cast should be asked to cover such uniforms in between takes. 

3. Emergency Services must be notified of filming activity and access for emergency vehicles must always be maintained during location filming. Where relevant the Emergency Services should be duly advised of: 

a) special effects, fires or explosions (Fire Brigade) 
b) the impersonation of fire officers or use of pseudo fire tenders (Fire Brigade) 
c) the impersonation of ambulance staff or use of pseudo ambulances (Ambulance Service) 

4. Film-makers should ensure that location owners and adjacent property owners are: 
a) kept fully informed of the intentions of the production company whether they are used for filming or not 
b) given a reasonable site rental fee in accordance with the budget of the film 
c) issued with an approved location contract which clearly states the terms agreed between themselves and the production company 
d) given details of any art department requirements including dressing and construction 
e) written notification, such as a letter drop, should be carried out at least seven days prior to the first day on location. If the notice is less than seven days, then a representative of the company should personally discuss their intentions with all relevant property owners. 

5. Proof of adequate public liability insurance and any other relevant insurances should be made available to anyone affected by the location firming activities of the production company. Canterbury City Council will require a copy of the company's Public Liability Insurance document.

http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/main.cfm?objectid=1448

The items that would be needed on a set.

·         Equipment:

·         Multiple Cameras

·         Tripod for each camera

·         A video switcher that can handle every single video source you have (or computer system)

·         Multiple microphones

·         An audio switcher that can handle every audio source you have (or computer system)

·         Graphics generator

·         Multiple TV Monitors, minimum of one per video source

·         Video tape/DVD decks

·         CD/audio tape players

·         Cables and connectors to piece it all together

·         Lights

·         Set furniture

·         Transport:

·         Taxis to and from location.

·         Train to longer distances.

·         Make your own way.

·         Bus .

Transport is important to to from location to location and also carry equipment around. An example would be on location news programme as they have to travel long distances with a lot of equipment.

·         Talent:

·         Actors for reconstruction.

·         Extras

·         Interviewees.

In most documentary’s and news programmes there are normally a very small crew, much less than a film crew. This is as documentaries are much more low budget. 

·         Crew:

·         Director

·         Assistant director

·         Producer

·         Stage directors

·         Lighting technician

·         Sound technician

·         Script writers

·         Camera men

·         Assistant cameramen

·         News reporters

·         Studio readers

·         Technicians

·         Make up and Wardrobe.

·         Weatherman

FINANCE: SOURCES OF FINANCE: REQIRERMENTS

LIST OF REQUIRMENTS NEEDED TO COMPLETE A NEWS PROGRAMME

EQUIPMENT:

·         Decoration (like a set)

·         Professional camera (usually more than one in order to cut to different sets live)

·         Microphones (one or more in every filmed area)

·         Stage Lighting

TRANSPORT:

If you will be shooting on location you will need to organise transport for the journalist and required staff to be able to reach that destination and return safely. The transport will depend on the distance you would need to travel and how many people will be traveling.

TALENT:

You will need someone who will report the news well, so you will need

·         A Studio host (reporter, usually a male and a female, or just one single one)

·         An on location reporter

·         A weather woman (if your programme reports the weather)

·         A studio interviewer (if your programme features live  studio interviews, which the main stream news programmes usually do)

CREW:   

You will need a well-trained crew to operate the equipment like:

·         Casting director: he/she will cast the talent. 

·         Costume Designer: he/she will be in charge of dressing up the talent

·         Director: he/she will direct the programme by directing all the aspects such as camera movements, the setup of the set. 

·         Location Manager: he/she will find and manage the locations that will be featured

·         Makeup Artist: he/she will apply makeup to whoever will appear on the screen 

·         Production Manager: he/she will be in charge of overlooking the visual appearance of the programme

·         Researcher: who will research the project before it’s done, and research the stories featured  

·         Set Designer: will design the set needed the programme

·         Television Producer: helps to coordinate, the financial, legal, administrative, technological and artistic aspects of a production.

·         Writer: will mould and create an original story and you will need more than one as they come in different forms such as , head writer, screen writer and story editor.

·         Boom Operator: to operate and assist the sound devices

·         Camera Operator: the head member of the camera crew who will direct and position the cameras

·         Character Generator: will display and prepare the on screen graphics

·         Stage manager: to stage and coordinate a theatrical production

·         Gaffer: is the head electrician of the set production

·         Editor: you will need an editor during and after the programme is shot to edit out the unneeded parts and tweak the necessary issues.

MATERIALS:

You will need materials to produce your news programme such as:

Script: This will have to contain all the dialogue that will be said on the screen and production crew instructions.

Storyboard: This will contain all the shoots which need to be filmed.

Research Document: this is a document including all the information on the stories that will be covered.

CLEARANCE:

You will need a clearance form for all the locations you need to film in (this is like a form of permission to avoid any problems with the law

TIME

WHAT IS A DEADLINE?

A deadline is a time or date you are given to complete a task.

WHY ARE DEADLINES IMPORTANT TO TV PRODUCTIONS?

Deadlines are very important in TV productions (news and documentaries0 because there are so many different aspects to making these programmes if one job fails to deliver in time the whole system is delayed (especially If the programme is live).

WHY IS AVAILIBILITY OF EQUIPMENT IMPORTANT?

Availability of equipment is very important because without the proper equipment, your programme will not be at the best quality.

WHAT IS MEANT BY TIMESCALES FOR CLEARANCE?

This means the time it takes or the process it would take to receive or construct a clearance form or negotiation.

WHY IS AVAILIBILITY OF PERSONNEL IMPORTANT?

Personnel is crucial because the process is very complex and there are lots of aspects and jobs involved in making a factual programme, if one part is unorganised or behind it affects the everyone the whole process .

PERSONNEL

WHAT IS THE COST OF THE AVERAGE PRODUCTION TEAM

The average cost of a production team is: (this salary’s increase depending on the experience and popularity of the employee, but these are written for the minimum wage 

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE SIZE OF A NEWS /FACTUAL PRODUCTION TEAM

The average size of a factual production team is usually a team of 65 and over, this includes assistant positions as well as lead positions.

·         Camera Man = £ 40, 500, 00

·         Director = £ 63,740.00

·         News Anchor= 48,180.50

·         Researcher= 25,653.72

·         Editor = 40,514.91

·         Graphics Specialist= 22,373.02

·         News Writer = 2,263.04

·         Additional Anchor = 39,975.63

·         Producer= 33,600