2. Camera: Canon 700D
We used a Canon 700D for shooting the scenes in our film, we decided to use this camera
as we were familiar with it from using it for our AS blog, it is a 18 megapixel DSLR which
allowed us to take clear/high image quality photo’s and videos, which was important for
when shooting our scenes.
Using the camera to film our shots was easy, along with the tripod, allowed us to shoot a
variety of different scenes, such as panning an moving the camera to track our main
characters movement with ease. We also experimented some scenes with different light
modes/settings so we could see which effect looked and did not look good with the
theme of our film.
As we sometimes had to use manual focus in order to obtain clear image, the Canon
helped us learn new things/experience, of which some we had already knew and did not.
The manual focus helped us ensure that the image played back to us was clear and of high
quality.
3. Sound equipment:
Zoom Handy recorder H4N and boom microphone. (batteries, memory card)
• The equipment we used to record our sound effects and the audio used in our
scenes was a Zoom handheld recorder H4N and a boom microphone. This
allowed us to successfully record our scenes and if necessary, separate audio
recordings to later input in post production.
• Using the Boom microphone allowed us to obtain a better quality of audio being
recorded, the boom allowed us to place the microphone above our actors heads,
allowing for clearer sound to be recorded. we moved the boom closer in certain
scenes to make the audio clearer such as when pre- recording our main
characters (PETER) voice over scenes, where we recorded closer to the actors
mouth to gain an even better quality of audio. We used the boom in all of our
scenes due to how clear it made the audio.
• The only struggles we had with using the boom microphone was that we had to
know when to bring the boom close to the actors mouth to emphasise a scene
and also to make sure the audio equipment was not on camera/ in shot.
