Q3- What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?

During the production process we were given a:

• Video Camera
• Tripod
• Set of headphones
• Shotgun Mic 

Our group in action

Obviously we used the camera in order to capture our footage that we would later edit together. The tripod was used in all shots but the crab shot, because it allowed for stability and for the camera to be steady when panning and also for the master shot. Along with these factors we used the tripod to help us achieve an eyeline match.

The shotgun mic was the only piece of equipment that was new to us. It allowed us to choose how much background noise we wanted to include by its three settings. For most of it we chose to use settings 1 and 2 because we wanted to cut out most of the background noise but still wanted to make it clear to the audience that we were in a school setting. The only problem we found when using it was that sometimes it picked up too much background noise and we were concerned with whether the noise difference between the corridor, etc. and inside the edit suite would be too varied.


Our Editing Station

For the editing process we used Adobe Premiere to capture and edit all of our footage together. As we had experience of this software from our GCSE media coursework we were familiar with how everything worked so there were not really any problems in using it.