2. Canon 550D - HD SLR camera . This camera was used throughout the product
of making the documentary . Very high quality clearly shown its use with the Safe &
Sound scene with interviews .
Strength – As the camera is also a
still camera this also helped with
taking pictures throughout the
planning and research and the
poster – ancillary product .
Weakness -As this camera did not
have a internal hard drive we had to
use external memory cards which
limited the footage we could take as
there was not enough space at time .
3. Panasonic TM900 – This is another HD camera coder with a 32 GB
internal hard drive attached with full 1080p HD . This was the
main camera used throughout the product and was far the best
camera we used .
Strength - The camera had a great zoom
and could zoom in from a great distance
and still capture a Sharpe clear image
Weakness – The camera had a lot of
features which sometimes became
confusing as we did not know how to
turn them off or on .
4. Apple I mac 22inch - This was the main
computer we used for the editing stages and also the planning stages as it
was fast and had all the necessary software's on the computer .
Strengths- This computer
has the most recent version
of Final Cut so modern
features available , also had
2 back up hard drives
Weakness – This computer is
regularly used so limited the
availability of it to our group .
5. MacBook Pro 17inch – This was other computer we
used for editing . This computer has a 500GB hard-
driver and final cut pro on it as well .
Strengths – The laptop was one
of the group member's so
availability of the laptop was not
busy .
Weakness – We had some
technqual difficulties with the
footage been transferred across
which caused problems on final
cut .
6. This is the latest final cut edition available .
On the I mac this was the main software we
used to edit our production .
Strengths – Weaknesses – As with
The new software has all any new piece of
the latest features at is software it took us a
more beginner friendly few tutorials before we
than the previous got the hang of the
versions software which set us
back some time .
The software AutoSaves
every 10 minutes so Any previous projects
there is no worry in it no within the old final cut
saving or having to save we could not transfer so
it . This benefitted us as we had to re edit some
sometimes we may be in parts , which set us
rush and may of forgot back some time in
to save . doing this .
