Equipment used

Tripod

Another piece of equipment that I have is a Miranda 500 tripod. Its legs extend twice and the total height of the tripod with the camera on top is about 5 foot off the ground. The tripod allows the camera to capture smooth and steady shots which you can do for taking images and also video. It is not hard to understand how to use the tripod so it wasn't hard for the others to understand.

Canon 500D

The main camera used for the majority of our filming, it was of very good quality and created a very good image, the main problem we had with camera was the fact that it didn't have a ;ens with optical zoom, this of course caused problems when we had to film form a distance, for example in an alleyway where you can't stand next to each other because it is too confined. The camera was useful for most of the shots especially in Dubai where we needed a top quality camera in order to film such a beautiful location.

 Adobe premier elements 

The original software from last year and a more basic version of Cyberlink Powerdirector. Still good for its simplicity but yet it doesn't create the quality production we were looking for with specific special effects being really hard to implement such as the fade in shadow of the title or the gun shot sounds on a blank screen. The software still worked well when considering that we only really needed it as a backup if the Cyberlink Powerdirector turned out to be a dead end as it could be more complicated.

 Blogger

Blogger was the most important part of the research and planning process, it helped make the whole trailer planning process a lot easier as you could display all your ideas simply and easily on a blog. It was essential for most of the shots we gained to have an idea of what we were filming, with blogger we could plan the filming of particular scenes in specific locations pretty simply just by following the script, however even though we had blogger to plan we found it easier when filming to improvise our shots as it meant we could get a lot more shots to help fill the two minute time limit.

 Cyberlink Powerdirector

Cyberlink Powerdirector was the software of choice for editing as it provided us with an easier way of creating the presentation we desired, the actual quality of Powerdirector is very good, the editing aspect is far more efficient and the rendering is far quicker and less common as compared to Adobe's equivalent. At the start of the year we had to make the decision whether to stick with Adobe or not, the reason we chose Cyberlink Powerdirector instead is because of practicality and quality, in terms of going round Conor's to edit it was essential that we could edit whenever we want rather than relying on going to the media editing rooms to do it, this as is also helpful as the quality of the software is better as it is basically an upgrade on Adobe with an easier interface and simple controls when it comes to editing an image or sound etc.