Equipment We Need To Use

In order to actually film our music video we need to use a Sony Handycam. This is small enough to be easily carried around London and still has enough quality to record a high standard of footage. We will also store our footage on a recording tape, and then upload it to the computer from there. Using a tape is useful as we can simply rewind it and film over any shots we do not need or want.  

In order to film some shots without any jerky camera movements, we need to attach the camera to a tripod. The tripod allows the user to film shots which have no movement from human error, at different heights due to the retractable legs and have slow pans and vertical movement as the base of the attachment can move up and down and from side to side. Using a tripod in our group will certainly make our filming easier as we have many planned pans across the River Thames and long length shots of the London Eye and a busy road in Westminster.

The group and I will also need to use a music player of some sort. This is so Glenn can hear the music whilst lip syncing the correct lyrics at the right times. Matt suggested downloading the track 'What A Life' to his iPhone so that Glenn can simply have the music playing in his jacket pocket. This will aid Glenn in when to come into a certain lyric and how long to hold it for.  Our phones will obviously be useful when planning to film our video as we can call or text each other to arrange times and places to meet. 

We took still photos of each other whilst filming with my digital camera so we can show them on our blogs. This will also help show our stages of production as we can take photos of each stage as we continue with our filming of the music video.