Equipment List

  For our thriller, we will have to use a tripod for the camera, along with spare batteries and a charger for the batteries. Once we have finished all of the filming with the camera, we will have to use iMovie on the Mac computers to cut and edit together all of the necessary clips and add in the music we have chosen from freeplaymusic.com. We used freeplaymusic.com because, as the name suggests, all of the music is copyright free and we can use it with no harm.

The tripod will allow us to shoot steadily and without camera shake, it also means that we can completely control the angle of our shots to the minutest degree.

Although I could not get a photograph of the exact camera we are going to use, the important information is that they record onto tapes, instead of simply onto a memory card, this is because the tapes allow greater volume of storage at a better quality level. The cameras are also quite small allowing for ease of transportation and also making it easy to carry for shots in which we do not require the tripod.

We will also need a number of battery packs. These allow us to move from place to place while filming without having to be connected to an electrical plug. They have a relatively long life and as long as we don't leave the camera running then we should be able to do all our filming on the power of a single battery. But if we need to we can use the second battery pack which could be left on charge while we are using the first.

Although there is also a way to charge the battery when it is still connected to the camera, this charger allows us to use one battery pack for filming while the other is charging, cutting down on our filming time.

 

We will use a soft professional photography light to make the shots of the stalker writing in the book clearly visible without making the light too over-powering and giving away too much detail and mystery of the stalker.

 

Once all the filming is finished we will use iMovie for editing our opening together, we chose this program because we are very familiar with it as we have previously used it when producing our preliminary task and can work quickly when using it. One of the other possibilities would to use Final Cut Pro, but since this would be our first time using it we feel it will be more time saving to use iMovie, and for the kind of editing we need to do, iMovie will be fine as will will only need a few features. iMovie is also compatible with other software that we might find useful such as iTunes (which is the portal through which we will need to get our music.)

Written By Kieran, Edited By Me.