Questionnaire

 This is the questionnaire I got a random sample of people to fill in:

These are the results I obtained from the questionnaire:

Questionnaire results from lucy_richmond

Health & Safety in the Media Industry

What you should know:

• Health and safety legislation applies to all work activities in the UK, whether conducted by UK nationals or foreigners,even if they are not being paid.
• Legal duties under health and safety law cannot be delegated.

What you must do:

• Define responsibilities and duties
• Have a system for managing health and safety
• Assess and manage risks
• Regularly review the process and procedures for managing risk

Define responsibilities and duties

Employers are required to have a management system in place to control the risk to employees and others from their work. The industry uses large numbers of independent companies and freelancers and it is sometimes difficult to decide who the employer is. However, in the majority of cases, the employer will be the producer or production company.

System for managing health and safety

The size and complexity of management systems for health and safety depend on the size and complexity of the production. For more complex, hazardous or specialist productions – advice may have to be sourced from a competent outside specialist or consultant. An employer’s legal duty to manage health and safety cannot be delegated to a consultant or to anyone else.

Assess and manage risks

Risk assessment is a fundamental part of managing health and safety and helps you to identify hazards and control the risk they create for those involved in your production. The process requires you to:

• take the time to systematically look at your activities
• decide what hazards they present
• assess the risk of people being exposed to these hazards
• find ways to either eliminate or control them

Review

You must review and update both the risk assessments you have made and the controls you put in place as work progresses to make sure they are still working. After the production, it is good practice to review the whole system to see whether useful lessons could be learned for the future.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/entertainment/theatre-tv/film.htm 

Location Ideas

The locations of my music video will be in normal places such as streets, bars, houses etc. This is because my music video, although it has elements of a performance video, is a narrative type video and so I want it to be as close to real life as possible. Some of the video will take part at night and so I need places that will look effective at night as well as during the day. As I live in Hull I will probably film in Hull so may use places like humber bridge or marina and old town, places in Hull that may look effective as a location for a music video. 

Hair & Make-up Ideas

The make-up of the main female character in this video will be quite dark make-up such as thick black eyeliner and dark coloured lipstick such as deep red, purple or black. Her hair will be quite messy, slightly wavy and either a dark brown colour or bright blonde. This is quite conventional of the indie genre, girls do not like to have neat hair or girly make-up. Quite a few girls who are either artists in this genre or fans of the genre have dyed hair, sometimes brightly coloured hair. In my video, the girl is not going to have an unusual colour hair as I want her to look as normal as possible as her life is not really that normal. I don't want too much irregularity in my music video.

Male Costume Ideas

The male main character in my music video will be wearing dark colours, conventional of the indie genre. He will be wearing something simplistic such as skinny jeans and a t-shirt. He may also be wearing a hat, probably a beanie, and wearing trainers such as converse or vans. He is wearing fairly normal clothes as in this video he is fairly normal and has a fairly normal role. He is the one who keeps the female main character sane so in this video he has to look and act quite regular, hence the simplistic costume.

Female Costume Ideas

The main character in my music video will be wearing a light coloured, preferably white, dress. This is to represent her innocence and purity. A white costume will also be used in contrast to her emotions. In this video, she is depressed, she is delusional, she is not in touch with reality. This type of emotion would usually be represented by dark colours, blacks and greys, however the character in the video is trying to hide her emotions by wearing light colours. She doesn't want anyone to know how she is feeling so she is hiding behind her clothes. Like the 3D, red blue effect, the white dress will also be used to show when her dark emotions are coming back, when she starts to become delusional and suicidal.

Editing Ideas

The 3D, blue, red effect is something I would like to incorporate into my music video. It is going to be used to represent the main character becoming delusional, disorientated and not being in touch with reality. It will emphasise to the audience which parts of the music video the main character is becoming crazy. The main character is suicidal and so using this effect will show the audience when she is contemplating suicide. When this effect is not used in the video, that is when she is relatively okay, she is not contemplating suicide, she is not delusional.

These three videos are examples of videos that use this kind of effect. In the Lana Del Ray Video, the effect is used to create a drug addled effect, to make the audience feel the way she is feeling.

The effect is used in the Bruno Mars video to show he's upset and to show that he is not really with it. He misses his girl and he can't get back to normality, he can't get back in touch with reality until she comes back. The Foals video shows the band and the audience at their show in a state of ecstasy, represented by the 3D effect. They are all really excited and having a lot of fun and the effect emphasises this.