Construction Post 1: Our production kit

Our Production Kit

Our production kit included:

• Canon Legria HF G30 
• Sennheiser HD 201 headphones
• Tripod
• Shotgun microphone
• Clapper board
• Shoot board

We used this camera to record our footage to a high quality. We then plugged headphones into it to ensure that the sound quality was good and to prevent any background noise ruining our shots. This was also helped by our use of the shotgun microphone as it was extremely effective at picking up the dialogue in our shots and its fluffy texture prevented a lot of extra noise being created by the wind. The tripod was used to keep our shots steady and level, however, we were unable to use it for hand held shots as it could not be shortened to the height which was required. This meant that it was difficult to shoot hand held shots as the camera would often shake. We used the clapper board so that we could easily distinguish our shots from each other during the editing process. This was extremely helpful as it meant that we were able to name our shots much quicker. However, in some shots the clapper board was held too far away from the camera so the writing became illegible. This resulted in us having to play the individual shots to figure out which ones they were which was very time consuming. Finally, we used the shoot board to keep a track of all the shots we had taken and kept a note of all of the takes that we had made. The shoot board was arranged according to location, meaning we could shoot our shots more efficiently.