Film Equipment

There were a few things after seeing the continuity piece we knew we were going to have to fix. One of these was the quality of the camera. The reason for this was because, as we watched several films that other groups had made, we began to realize that the main thing holding a lot of the films back was the quality of the camera. If you can see the quality is bad, then you are aware you are watching a film, which was one of the main things we were trying to avoid. After asking around the group to see if anyone else had any better equipment than the schools our teacher offered to lend us one of his own handheld high quality cameras, the 'Kodak ZX1 HD'.

There were downsides however to having better quality, we couldn't focus very well on anything close up and the battery time was quite short considering the fact we had to do one shoot as we couldn't keep borrowing 
Jake's house for a party, 

We needed a tripod, which was actually something that we never used in the continuity piece. We needed it because a lot of the shots required a really professional style that we couldn't really do handheld so in order to convey the emotion of the scenes or the unsettling nature of them we needed a Tripod. Also we had wheels that could fix onto the bottom that we intended to use for the tracking shots, so we wouldn't have to carry it and ruin the quality of the shot.

We also managed to get a hold of a few standard lamps which extended to big enough lengths to illuminate everything that was in the shot we needed. The reason for the massive extent on lighting is because of something we learned in our continuity which was the best way to make a scene look dark but keep all the quality was to film in pure light then edit it to darkness.