This is the camera that we a going to use to film. It is a Panasonic HC-V500 Full HD camera with features such as anti shake, which will stop any camera shake when recording by hand, however it was not needed as we are using a tripod. The camera also features a stereo microphone which is good as it will help to give our film a more professional feel. One major problem with the camera though is the inability to manually control the focus, which means we could not experiment with different with different depth of fields but it did a good job overall and produce good quality images.
This is the tripod we are going to use. It is just a simple £20 tripod but has the ability to go to a height of 5 ft, which is good for getting those eye level shots. The tripod also helped to keep the shot completely still, as does any tripod. It also provided a way of setting down the camera without putting it on the floor, which was convenient.
This was the PC in which the opening two minutes last year was edited on. It features dual monitors, the wide screen monitor on the right displays the editing program (Adobe Premiere Pro) and the 4:3 monitor on the left displays the video in full screen in real time. Having two monitors really came in handy when performing colour correction, as having two different monitors allows for two different references of how the video will look, this meant the video could be colour corrected to look good on both monitors, rather than just one and will hopefully look good on all monitors and TV's. Headphones and speakers were also used during the editing, again for the same reason as having two monitors; to get to different references to make the audio sound as good as the video looks.
This is the recorder which was used to record the music for our opening two minutes. It is a hand held recorder the uses an SD card to store the recorded data on. We used this to record the acoustic guitar for the sound track. It has great quality, though not quite studio quality, so it was good for us to use. It was easy to set up and took very little time to record the music, which was a big time saver on the production of the opening two minutes. However we wereonly limited to recording one intrument that being the acoustic guitar, making it limited
This year we will be using a genuine recording studio to record the soundtack for our trailer, with this there is no limit to what we can achieve. The music will be very high quality indeed, It may take some time but it will be worth it for a good quality soundtrack.
This is a screen shot of the main editing program used during the production of our opening 2 minutes (Adobe Premiere Pro). I think that this was the perfect choice of editing software and we'll definately use it again for filming our trailer. It has a simple interface making it very user friendly and easy to spent long periods of time editing on. It also features plenty of video effects; such as colour correction, and transitions such as cross fade and wipe. It also has a very effective title creating system allowing for custom fonts to be used, which we did. It also features a good audio mixer, making the audio editing easy. Even with all the features found on this software, some elements of our opening two minutes could not be done on this software.
This is the second piece of video editing software (Adobe After Effects). This software is used to add the special effects to the film such as the gun shot, blood and fire. This software is not as simple to use as Premiere Pro therefore it took a lot longer to get the hang of using and it took many attempts to get the special effects looking acceptable, however in the end, they turned out good; not pro standard but OK. After effects features motion tracking which was very important for the blood effect, without it, the blood effect would not have been possible. After Effects was used in conjunction with Video CoPilot's action essential; which provided the blood burs, muzzle flair and the fire effects, as well as the sound effects for the punches, gun shots, reloading, shell bounce and fire sounds.
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