Technical Equipment

The first and most important piece of equipment we used was the video camera. We used this to film all of the shots we needed and some sound.

The second piece of equipment we used was a tripod. This enabled us to keep steady shots and we were able to pan around smoothly. However a few of the shots may have been a bit jolty where we did not loosen the grip on the tripod enough.

The rest of the equipment we used were all computer software on the Apple Mac. We used Final Cut Express as the basic program to capture and edit our footage. We cut scenes, outtakes, re-arranged the order, changed the speed of certain clips, inserted video filters and text, insert sound effects, adjust sound levels and insert transitions between shots. I also used final cut to create our ident. I animated the logo and added the sound and text.

The next piece of software we used was GarageBand. Using this program we created a soundtrack to fit our film using the many different sounds that GarageBand has to offer. We then exported it out of GarageBand and into Final Cut to combine with our video. I also created the short sound effect for our ident using GarageBand.

Photoshop was also used to create our ident. After we found a good picture to use as our logo I then opened it with Photoshop and created different layers of the different sections that needed to be animated. Each layer was then imported into Final Cut seperately and I animated it from there.