A Job for Everyone

If you don’t already know, organising an investigation takes a lot of planning, hard work, time, money and effort.  There are many jobs which all need to be done to provide good locations, investigations and reports.  Although as we’ve mentioned it’s a good idea to have either a group of founders, or a committee or both making the final decisions, it’s also important to get your team involved on as much as they are willing to take on. This not only brings the group closer together but also teaches those less experienced, helps those with too much on their plate and ensures everything gets done.

 Pre Investigation jobs 

• Sourcing a location
• Contacting a location
• Organising payment
• Confirming dates
• Deciding on organiser for investigation and assistant organiser
• Recce including facilities on site, areas, electrics, parking, maps
• Emails to all members about location including dates, times, money etc.
• Gathering ideas for experiments etc.
• Planning the investigation
• Sorting equipment

Investigation jobs 

• Setting up cameras
• Setting up other pieces of equipment
• Setting up experiments
• Conducting technical baselines
• Conducting photography baselines
• Conducting risk assessment
• Pre-Investigation Briefing
• Team leading
• First Aider
• Organising protection (if you use it)
• Ensuring each team has all equipment, note sheets etc they need
• Filming
• Photography
• Implementing ideas for change of itinerary/experiments at short notice
• End of night briefing

 Past Investigation jobs

• Typing up notes
• Gathering all notes for the night
• Watching all video footage (long and tedious ask Colin and Dave!)
• Checking all data from equipment
• Checking all photographs
• Checking all evp recordings
• Gathering all information together
• Compiling report

Good Luck!