Equipment to film

Instead of using an Iphone camera, we have asked amongst our friendship group if anybody is willing to lend us a camera that we can respectively take our digipak photos and film or video on. Our good friend Emma said we could borrow hers for as long as possible. This is great news as it allows us to be further prepared for our filming tasks. The quality is far superior than the Iphone and fits our needs perfectly. The camera she's lending us is a Nikon D3300. After doing some background research on this particular camera i found out that it's around £300. Therefore we do not want to break or damage any part of the camera, however, if we do then we will split the cost and buy Emma a new camera or pay for repairs. The camera has many basic features you'd expect on any camera. The camera provides zoom, in and out, manual focus which is important as the auto focus ussually focuses on the wrong part of the set. Auto focus is also particularly unreliable when filming movement as it has a tendency to completely go out of focus. The camera also has one really annoying feautre to save battery. It turns itself off, this is a huge drawback as it makes preparing the shot lengthy. For example we'd have the camera focused and then it cuts out. it just makes filming very tedious and frustrating. One thing i really liked about our camera is that it came with a strap. Not only did this allow for easy transportation, it will also allow for off tripod shots.

We will also inquire our media teacher about use of a tripod. The tripod will enable us to create perfectly still shots where needed. This gives the whole video a sense of professionalism as it's not just shaking across the screen. Using both camera and tripod, we hope to capture all the needed shots without messing up the use of the camera. We are grateful that we are able to use both parts of equipment at our disposal