Blog 12 - Health and safety

We have not got a lot of health and safety implications to worry about while filming this video. It takes place in a school music classroom, a building designed to be made safe for underage people to play music in. The one danger we have is the backdrop, a large stack of sound equipment. If this were to fall then it would crush Jesse, the drummer. To ensure safety surrounding this situation, we had to stack up the equipment properly. We put larger speakers and amps at the bottom of the pile, with PA's and percussion instruments at the top. This minimised the risk of injury, and also provided a pyramidal, good shape for the background to be. Besides this there was no real worries or risks that threatened the health or safety of the crew or participants for the video that were apparent at the time. Looking back in retrospect the whole thing was executed safely and precautiously.