Technology and equipment which we will be using

There will be a number of technology that we will use to shoot our music video. The most important will be of course the camera. This is a small hand held camera so is easy to take with us on location. We have had experience with it before so there have not been many problems occurring. However we did experience difficulty with the disc used, at times it seems that it is not recording but this was over come by making sure we upload the disc properly before filming. Another piece of technology that we are using is not to do with the filming but with the album cover that we will be producing. To make the album cover, we will be using the software Photoshop. We have all had to learn how to use this and at the beginning this was quite difficult, but we practiced and are now ready to complete our album cover. A final piece of technology is the lighting, for which will occur both at the beginning and at the end. We hope to use the school spotlights for the end to create a performance feel to it. At the beginning when a spotlight appears over each of the band members, again we hope to use the school spotlights with the rest of the hall pitch black, this will create an illusion of professionalism.
When it comes to equipment this does not just mean technology, for instance, for one shot we will be panning round the main character but we do not want to do this hand held. So we came up with the idea of the dolly. One idea for this was that we would take the top off of the swivel chair and attach the tri-pod and camera to the bottom. We already new that the year previous this had been used so we were confident that it would work again. By using the dolly we will hopefully gain a smooth pan around the character.