Equipment/Kit - Luke

There is a large variety of different equipment that we needed for out music video. Here are the key pieces of equipment that we are going to use.

The first, and most important piece of kit that we will need to film our music video is a camera. Luckily, a friend of my dad has allowed us to borrow his camera, a Sony HDR-FX1 HDV Handycam. This camera will allow us to get clear, crisp footage that will fully compliment the shots in our music video. Although we'd are excited to use this camera to film or music video, we are also quite nervous as we are going to be running all over London and Dartford with it, and also because it is very expensive!

Another important piece of equipment that we will be using to help us film or music video is my tripod and the steadycam that James, Josh and I made out of a cheap tripod that we purchased off of Amazon. These will allow us to get steady shots when we are doing pans and single body shots, and smooth and stay shots when we are running alongside our actors with the camera to film the chase shots.

As well as needing the main camera for filming our music video, we also used three other cameras to film the making of video. The cameras that we used were the Panasonic HDC-SD10, Sony A57 and Nikon D200. Filming a making of video and taking pictures of us filming and organising our shots will allow us to watch back on ourselves and use the footage to evaluate our work in the final evaluation questions.

To edit our music video we used both final cut express and adobe after effects. Final cut express was used for the basic editing and adding in the MTV logo and name banner of the song and adobe after effects was used by me to create the four CCTV camera feeds and edit them into one multi camera feed ready for the anonymous security guards to be watching in their security office.