Risk Assessment

Risk	Likelihood [1-5]	Severity [1-5]	Prevention
Rain/water	3	5	Rain or water may damage our equipment, so we will have to  make sure that we start filming on a day where the weather is nice and sunny, and at the slightest sign of rain we will retreat and drop filming for another day when the weather is back to normal. This is inconvenient however it is not something that can be controlled.
Traffic	5	5	We are filming in town near roads so traffic will be a problem because the microphones obviously pick up any kind of diegetic sound and the cars will drown out the dialogue. In order to prevent the microphones picking this up we will try to avoid rush hour and we will stop filming for a short period of time to allow them to pass before we can continue to film.
Time of day	5	5	Because most of our opening is filmed outside, it is inevitable that the sky would get darker and darker as the hours pass by. This is why we should make sure we keep an eye on the time and only film from the early morning to the mid-afternoon just to make sure that there is no risk of dark skies.
Equipment	3	2	We need to ensure that no wires or any other parts of equipment are lying around where the public could accidentally step on them or trip over and fall, injuring themselves. If there is no way of collecting all equipment from the way of the public, we will have signs that we can place, warning people that there is a film shoot and there are several things lying around that they must avoid stepping on.
Public	5	3	Although the public can be beneficial because we are filming out in town and people will have to be around at the time, it can be less beneficial for us as well because their dialogue will be picked up by the microphones and they may interfere with our filming, e.g. looking into the camera, stopping and staring, talking very loudly. In order to prevent this we will make sure that the only time we are filming is when the public is walking away from our crew and our filming place.