The Camera
To compose our film, the camera we used was a Panasonic HDC - TM900. Strengths of the camera include HD recording and playback, meaning the images we captured were crisp and colourful, which overall gave our soap opera trailer a professional quality.
The Tripod
Although for our AS project we decided to use a tripod to film the majority of our film opening, this year for our soap opera trailer, we thought we would mainly film by hand. We decided upon this as we felt our shots would be smoother, more natural and we would be in control. We hoped that by not using the tripod as much, it won't seem as static and will add to the aim of verisimilitude we want.
SD Card
Although the SD memory card is the smallest part of our equipment, it's importance is huge in the scheme of things. Without the memory card, our camera would not allow us to film any footage at all. As we knew we would have a lot of footage to capture, including our final project, auditions, and animatic storyboard, it was important that the memory card we used was suitable and could hold all this work, therefore we will use an 8GB card.
Apple Mac and it's software
To edit all our work, we will use an Apple Mac, this is because the opportunities it gives to us in regards to our soap opera trailer, are much more vast than that of a normal PC computer. For our rough cut we use the Imovie software on the Mac, this is a program that we are all very confident operating from using it previously for our AS project. Although this has a downfall in that there is not as much editing facilities given to us as there is on the other software called Final Cut Express. We think that once our rough cut is finished we will see what standard it is at, and decide whether we should move it to Final Cut Express for our final soap opera trailer, as of course we want it to look as professional as possible. -Amy Bowman & Lauren Tween
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