This document lists and describes the equipment that will be used to produce a documentary film and accompanying poster campaign. It includes several cameras, microphones, tripods, lights, and editing software. The Panasonic HC-X900M and Canon 100d cameras will be used for interviews and photography respectively. Microphones include the Rode, NTG-2 shotgun, and lapel microphones for capturing audio. Final Cut and Audacity will edit video and audio, while InDesign and Photoshop will be used to design the posters. The school has a photography studio and most of this equipment for the project.

1. EQUIPMENT
All equipment we will be using and what they
will be used for.

2. Camera gear
• Panasonic HC-X900M
• This will be used as our main camera during the
production of the documentary piece. We will be using
more than one of these cameras during our interviews for
multi-cam effect.
• Canon 100d with Additional lens
• This will be used to photograph the objects for the poster
pieces. The lens we will be using is a 17mm and this will
give us more area around the object for text.

3. Camera gear
• SD cards
We will always be carrying spare SD
cards with us during the production
of the documentary just in case one
fills up we will always then have a
back up.

4. Tripod and attachments
• Tripod
• The tripod will be used during a large amount of our
production allowing for still video and aiding in
creating shots such as panning and tilts.
• Dolly
• This is an attachment placed on the bottom of a tripod
and allows for easy maneuverability along the ground this
will be especially useful to us when doing montage
footage around the workshop.

5. Tripod and attachments
• Slider
The slider is an
Attachment that allows the
Camera to slide left to right while on a
Tripod. This will be used during montage footage to
To try and add more variety in terms of montage shot types.

6. Sound equipment
• Rode microphone - This will be our general
Microphone used for montage footage where
audio is not main priority.
Rode NTG-2 Shotgun microphone - This piece of equipment allows for
pinpoint accuracy in terms of audio. We will be using this when
interviewing the busker during our trip to London because it only picks
up sound it is pointed to so will in theory cut out any unwanted
background noise and instead focus on what he/she is saying.
Lapel microphone – This microphone is the microphone that we will use
for our all of our interviews because it provide high quality sound and
cannot be seen in the footage if hidden correctly!

7. Sound equipment
• Zoom h4n handy portable digital recorder
This will be used along side other microphones
as a way of storing the captured sound. It is also
small and can easily fit in someones pocket.
This is useful in interviews when we can have a
Lapel microphone connected to the H4N to
and cliped onto the shirt of our interviewee as
well as back up microphones on the cameras
just in case the H4N ran out of battery for example.

8. External lights
• External lights will be used during both the production of
our documentary and the poster campaign
• During the interviews for our documentary we will place
the lights around the subject which will get rid of any
artificial looking light that may be produced by other lights
in the rooms.
• The lights will also play the same role during the
photography for our poster campaign. The lights will
ensure that a shadow is placed on the white background
making sure that the poster does not look to plain

9. Editing software
• Indesign
This will be the software we will use to produce our poster.
We have decided to use this because it is predominantly a
publishing piece of software which will allow for far greater
freedom in terms of document editing than something like
photoshop will provide.
Photoshop
We are going to use Photoshop as an editing software
where we will place our images for the poster onto. This
allows us to take any imperfections out before it gets
exported to indesign where the actual poster will be
created.

10. Editing software
• Final cut
This will be the editing software we use to create our
documentary piece. We are using final cut because it is
assessable for all of our team and is something we are all
comfortable with. Final cut allows us to manipulate any
video we import into the software in many different ways
making it the perfect editing software for us for our
documentary.

11. Audacity
Audacity is a similar program but is a little more advanced.
Audacity allows for more precise sound enhancement. We
will use audacity alongside final cut. We will edit the sound
in audacity first to get the best quality from it and then
import it into final cut to edit the different sound clips
together.

12. Radio advert recording
• Because most of our radio advert will be put together
using sound from the footage we have we are just going
to use the h4n for the recording of the voice over which
will give the name of the documentary a short description
and information about its release.
Posters
• We are fortunate enough to have a photography studio at
Ratcliffe College so for our Posters we are going to use
this as it has a plain white background which is what we
want. We will use the external lights with the white
background to ensure that the subject is well lit.

13. Where we will get access to this
equipment/software
All of this equipment (except the Canon equipment) we
fortunate to have access to through school.