Equipment

The hardware that I will be using during filming will be:
A video camcorder.
A mini DV tape (60 mins)
Tripod Camera Stand

We borrowed all of this equipment from school so that we could use fairly high quality equipment without having to buy it all ourselves.

The Camcorder i used was to Film everything was the 'Canon Widescreen MV 920'.

The features of the camera are:

Camcorder Type: Digital Recording

Format: Mini DV

Recording System: PAL

Sensor Quantity: 1 Optical

Zoom: 25x

Weight: 0.38 kg

Overall the camera was robust and easy to use. It had good zoom facilities and you can edit the white balance, exposure and other features but i didnt really do this as i thought that the settings were already fine for what i was doing.

The clips were recorded straight ont o a mini DV tape and then transferred onto the Computer via a firewire cable.

I also used a Tripod in some scenes to get a shot where the camera wasnt shaky and to get a Panning shot. It was a 'Fujifilm Finepix A900'.

For some scenes it could have been useful to have a Crane for some high up shots and birds eye view shots to make it so that not all of the shots were just from ground level and to provide a bit of variation but the school does not own a crane so i settled for leving out these types of shot as it would be quite hard to produce them without the proper equipment.