Equipment Used

Camera

Tripod

Camcorder

Computer systems - Final Cut Pro., Photoshop, Preview, Quicktime.

Studio - Cameras & Systems.

Camera

We have been using a cannon camera provided by the college, when filming the 'outside of studio' shots such as in the theatre, and the outdoor locations. The quality of the camera in pixalation and clarity is shown through our end results. The resolution isn't as high as we would of hoped for but as neither of the team had a better camera or the intention of obtaining a better camera, we had to work with what we were given. The qualities of the camera are seen in the scenes where the natural light is strong, such as the scenes outside. The camera also had a amazingly long battery life, so this was never a factor that occured when filming for various lengthy filming sessions. The elements where the camera let us down, is the poor quality of capture in a darker enviroment for example the use of the Chapel, the picture to be honest looks grainy and murky which if say a HD camera was used, the picture quality would be a lot clearer, creating a higher resoluted shot.

Computer Systems

we used apple mac computers to create our poster for our c-d cover, poster, blogging and editing. We used photoshop as our software for the c-d cover and poster as the layer formating for chopping and changing pictures made it flexible to our convenience as to how are pictures would look. Another reason we used photoshop is the ability to change resolution and colour was made easy using tools such as the magnetic lasso. Photo shop is one of the mot advanced picture editing software and we were able to apply our knowledge in creating the best pictures could using photoshop

The apple macs were also extremely useful for editing when we were editing our music video. Final cut pro is the software we used and managed to produce a video to the highest qaulity we could. Using final cut pro we were able to adjust our video in terms of shot lengths, grainy stock, colour, lip syncing, transitions and fading. This was all useful in contributing to our final piece and making it look as professional as possible. Final cut pro allowed us to be able to piece our video visually as we had created mentally. We have now learnt things from final cut pro which we can apply to future productions.

The studio.

In college we have had acces to a professional filming studio. In this were able to create a dark effect which worked in sync with the story basis of our video as our performer (keir) is meant to be dead. Our vocalist (Ethan) sings in the studio our whole song and we were able to switch between 3 very hightech cameras to beatmatch to our son. The studio allowed us to produce film the most professional part of our music video as it the cameras were of the highest qaulity and stability. The dark effect controlled by the lighting was created by strobes and external lighting. We managed to keep the lighting volume to minimum as the storbes had a control of how dim or bright you wanted. The studio played a major role in our film as we filmed whole sequences in there which we applied in brief clips but contributed heavily to our final product.

tripod

The tripod was used mearly to steady the camera how ever a steady cam was important for some features in our piece. Alot of our piece was hand held to give a shakey effect as our piece was meant to be switching between the reality of life and death.