1. Evaluation question 6
The equipment used during the production of our films varied between hardware and software. The
equipment used is listed below.
The camera that we used was the Canon Legria HF M41. The reasons for this choice is the small sized
allow us to move and alter the angle and other factors affecting the camera easily due to the light
weight and small size. Another reason was the quality of the recording as the camera records at a HD
quality. The device was also simple to use for armature film creations. The camera also had an LED
screen to allow playback which was a very useful feature as this allowed us to quickly review the
footage without the need of a computer and this meant that we could quickly remove or retake any
of the scenes that we needed to retake. The major disadvantage of the camera was the microphone
that was on the camera as it picked up a lot of unwanted noise and background noise and forced the
actors to talk loudly and this affected the emotions conveyed by the actors.
Piece of software used to edit the film was final cut express. The reason for this is the simple but
effective user interface and this allowed us to have a professional effect but with ease. This also
allowed us to have layers of video and sound, this meant that we could have the sound effects,
music and recorded audio from our scenes along with text above the shots. This software also meant
that we could easily upload our videos.
2. Another piece of software used in the production is live type. This allowed us to create the text that
we later put onto our film and allowed us to edit the colour, font, style and the effect that we used
on the text.
We used an online blogging account blogger to upload our progress and films. We used this because
this allowed us to upload with ease and allowed us to design and personalise our blogs. Blogger alos
allowed us to track our blogs views and where the views are coming from.
Slide share allowed us to upload our videos onto our blogs. We did this by uploading our files to file
share and then copying the embed code to our blogs.
