Planning - Equipment_List

Filming equipment:

Camera – Canon EOS 70D Camera (20.2 MP, 18-55 mm IS STM Lens, 3.0 inch LCD).

Camera Rigs – Neewer® DSLR Shoulder Mount Support Rig with Camera/Camcorder Mount Slider, Shoulder Lift Set, Double-hand Handgrip.

Tripods – several 3 legged tripods to hold up cameras and lighting equipment.

Microphone – Senal SCS-98 DSLR/Video Stereo Microphone. This was to pick up the actors and any other sounds to enhance the audio.

Autocue – Ipad, helping our actors read a long script.

Lighting Rig – Red heads lighting rig,

                       – Soft box (Continuous).

                       – Flood lights.

Reasoning:

For some equipment it is easy to know why we need them, such as a camera to record the filming. But with other pieces of equipment we used to help connote to the audience the genre of our film trailer.

Using a camera rig like a mounted shoulder camera rig for our hand held shots we could create a more stable shot without using a tripod, which would make the shot too stable or using the camera by hand creating an unstable shot. But with the small shakes of the camera on a shoulder mounted rig helps emphasis the panic and distressed in certain scenes, such as the kidnapping scene (seen below), this helps connotes to the audience the way our antagonist (Murray) could be feeling; enraged, panicking or worried.

Using different types of lighting rigs to create to help’s us create an atmosphere. Mainly to help define our actors faces, so the audience can see their full emotion, such as when Amy is on the phone on her house (Seen in the image below). The lighting was used with a lap shaped to show where the light would be coming from, while using the ‘Red Heads’ lighting rig to expose more of Amy’s face denoting to the audience the stress and panic she is in.

We also used the lighting rig to help create certain illusion and leading the audience on. This is what we did for the last shot of the trailer which is the shot of Amy in Bed with the shadow of gun rising to her head. The shot below was done by setting up the lighting away from the bed and next to the bed creating various shadows effects, allowing us to try different angles until we got the shot we need.

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