HEALTH AND SAFETY!! By Ghislaine

When we where shooting our films, we made sure that we didn't knock the camera over and broke it or injure someone due to them hurting themselves on the camera/tripod. Also, to prevent any damage to the camera's and students, every time we started to film, we would have a piece of card with a caution that students are filming in the area, in big bold letters, so people would be able to see it clearly. Also, when using lighting, which we will remember to do with our Thriller Opening, is to shout 'LIGHTS ON' when the lights come on, so that it isn't a surprise to people, because the artificial light is pretty luminous. And to also shout 'LIGHTS OFF' when turning off the light, so again, everyone on set won't be surprised by the contrast with the natural light and the artificial light. Another dangerous part of lighting is the light bulb. The light bulb can reach up to a very high temperature, which would most likely burn/scowl you if you where to come into contact with it. So we need to remember to be very careful with the light bulb and to not be 'funny' and mess around with it.
What we also need to take into consideration is the weather. We need to make sure that all the camera's and artificial lights are safe and not broken due to the certain weather conditions. We need to keep a good eye on all the equipment, because we need to bring them back as good and as scratch free as we first got it given to us to use.

I found this website which is quite helpful on health and safety when around cameras and expensive equipment  > http://www.camera-crews.co.uk/health_safety_policy.pdf