Equipment and Software

For this years project we have decided to use the best equipment we have available, this is so that we can film in the highest quality and produce a film that as good as it can be.

The Camera we will be using is the HDV-1000 video camer, this is the best camera we have available at college and it allows us to film in HD and widescreen. We had the oppurtunity to use the same camera last year we means we have already had a lot of practice with it giving us an advantage when it comes to filming. This camera has a number of good features, it gives up to 20x optical zoom and allows us to use both manual and auto focus.

The only problem with these camera's is that they don't pick up sound from distance, the microphone is attached to the camera so if the scene is from a distance sound can't be picked up.
Therefore we will be recording sound seperately.

The flash recorder (Zoom recorder) is a seperate sound recording device, not only will this be useful for recording very clear sound but it will also be good for recording the narration that will go throughout the film. The most improtant advantage is of course that we will be recording seperately so we won't have to be close to the camera. Once the sound is recorded we will match it up to the video during the editing process.

When it comes to editing we will be using Final Cut Pro, this is specific software for editing film and gives us a lot of different effect and features we can use. We also got to practice with this software last year so we are quite confident when it comes to editing.

Overall we are quite confident with the equipment we will be using and we will also be using it to practice some of the shots we hope to use in the film. We shall be posting the results of these practice shots and at the same time we will gain even more practice with the equipment.