CONSTRUCTION

CAMERA • The camera I used to film my music video was the Cannon

700D. I used this camera at AS so I already knew how to use it which made me more efficient when it came to shooting. I also used this camera to take the photos for my digipak and magazine advert. • The touchscreen feature was a useful feature of this camera

when it came to performance shots as it made focusing easy. As most of our footage was taken outside, the camera was good for controlling the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and setting the white balance. This allowed us to get really clear footage, making it seem professional and more enjoyable to watch. • I felt this was effective in making my video better as without

good quality footage, it doesn’t matter how good the editing was, the video wouldn’t look as good as it could.

CAMERA EQUIPMENT • The shoulder camera proved a very useful piece of equipment A

lot of our shots involved the two characters walking around and this allowed us to film the shots of the people walking whilst still making sure the footage was steady and clear. I feel like we used this effectively as the end version of our video was of a good standard and without this equipment we would have had shaky footage and it wouldn’t have looked as good. I had never used this equipment before so it was a good learning curve and I would know in the future that it would be a effective bit of equipment to use for any future projects.• The tripod was also a useful piece of equipment. I had used it

before for other projects such as my AS thriller and preliminary tasks, however it was very useful for this. By using a tripod, it allowed us to keep the footage level and this was especially good for the performance shots.

LIGHTING • When we were filming outside, we opted to use

natural light as it gave clear, crisp lighting which the camera worked well with to make in focus footage. This worked effectively as it would have been impossible to use artificial lighting outside so it was rather convenient. • When we filmed indoors, we used studio lighting

to make sure that the colours and contrast was consistent throughout.