Recce

Recce for conference at the Tudor Park Marriott Hotel

Photos from Tudor Park Marriott Hotel website

Photos from Tudor Park Marriott Hotel website

We did a recce for our first day of filming at the Marriott Hotel, because it would've be difficult for us to be able to get in before hand and recce the location we had to do it quickly before filming as well as look on their website at pictures of the conference room we could be using and the general area. 

Potential hazards that we identified were;

Trip hazards from wires and tripod legs

Being in walk ways 

We also had to be aware of the amount of people who would be there as this could cause a problem with people who didn't want to be filmed and there for limit our angles.

Recce for Lecture Room 2 Maidstone Studios

We did a recce of the lecture room so that we could plan out where we want to set up things like the green screen and camera.
We also had to take into account that as it was lecture room 2 which is adjacent to the communal room for the entire course that we'd likely have a bit of noise coming through. As well as this the window in the back meant that if anyone turned the light on in there it could be a distraction as well as change the lighting of the shot so we would have to ask if people could stay out of that room for the filming period.
Potential hazards include;
Trip hazards from wires, trip pod legs and chairs 

Recce for on location shoot for DOTS

Google image

Google image

We were unable to get to London before filming to do a recce of where DOTS would be setting up one of their static stalls. I went onto google to at least get an idea of location, it turns out the location had a road on either side as well as being on a high street so there would be a lot of general noise of people walking. As well as this we'd have to consider things like people walking into shot, because we didn't have there permission we'd have to blur faces to avoid identification.
Potential hazards would include things like;

Trip hazards from wires and tripod legs

Being in walk ways/in the way of the general public

Being near busy roads and a busy police station 

Recce for conference room Maidstone Police Headquarters

As this was a last minuet shoot we weren't actually able to recce the room we'd be filming or the outside areas. We were escorted around and supervised the entire time of filming.

We did a quick one when we got there and noted a few potential hazards and filming issues;

Lights, the lights in the conference room were very yellow as well as one of them was flickering messing with the lighting for the shot.

The table in the room was rounded meaning our shoot wouldn't look level.

There were a lot chairs in the room which posed as trip hazards along with the usual wires and tripod legs.

There was a large flat screen TV in the room so we also had to take extra care to not knock it at all.

Outside there were busy roads which both altered the sound as well as was a potential safety hazard for the crew.
There were trip hazards for things like tree roots, edges of curbs, wires, bags and tripod legs.
As we were filming in a function police headquarters we had to be aware of sensitive information if any that couldn't be filmed, as wells as people in general who don't want to be filmed.