Risk Assessments

Potential problems and possible solutions

General

-Change in weather during filming on different days
This is a problem because the timing and weather will not follow the narrative as it shows one days journey.  
A solution is to film differently to schedule. The likelihood of this may be reduce if the weather is checked by and the schedule takes into account weather conditions. 

-Filming taking longer than expected
This would cause changes to the schedule making it difficult to shoot everything within the date requirements. 
This could be overcome by either adding an extra day to the schedule or increasing filming hours within a day. 

Locations and transport
-Problems with public transport
If there is problems with the underground such as signal failure of delays, this would be reduce filming time by delaying us from getting to our location. 
It would help to plan several different ways of making the journey beforehand and checking underground status' at the beginning of the day.

-Safety 
Some of our filming locations such as underground platforms and the Leake Street tunnel aren't as safe as we hope for it to be. 
We are going to arrange for other people to join us on the set so that we create a group. 

-Locations Consent 
Certain public places may not allow us to film without a permit.
We need to find out exactly which areas need a filming permit and avoid filming there or find a similar place. 

Crew and Actors
-Actor availability
Our chosen actor may not be able to film on a certain day and this again would cause problems in scheduling. 
We need to either secure a back-up for our main character or create the schedule with the actor concerns in mind. It would also help for the actor to have a hard copy of the schedule. 

-Film crew unavailability
If a member of the film crew is not able to come to a shoot, the shoot may still be carried out but it would be very difficult to get it perfect and may require an additional day of shooting. 
The schedule also has to take into account any plans of the film crew. 

Equipment 
-Camera failure; Low battery, low memory, unsuitable for the scene
This would be the most complicated problem to overcome as any of these problems would cause a complete stop to any filming.
Precautions must be take by those in charge of each piece of equipment a night before shooting e.g. camera must be fully charged and the memory card needs to be backed-up on a computer and emptied.