Technology

A Laptop
DVD's
Camera
Tripod
MAGIX Movie Editing Software
External Harddrive

Alot of people in my media class decided to edit their footage on the Apple macs however I decided to use my own software as I was more comfertable with it and I find it much easier than using a mac. This is another reason I used my own laptop than a mac as I was just more used to using a pc rather than a mac.

I used the external hard drive to store large amounts of video footage as both backup and tranportation incase I need to move the footage to another computor for what ever reason.

DVD's are the standard medium of storing the final product.

The tripod came in handy for filming long periods of time where I was not moving and it worked (almost) like a makeshift steady cam for tracking shots. I had a small tripod and a large tripod.

The camera was also my own and I find it was more convienient than the school cameras because they recorded onto a tape rather than a harddrive or an SD card meaning I would have to use the school computers to edit the footage as I didn't have the right port on my laptop to transfer the footage from the camera to my laptop. Also I found with the tapes where they had been used alot the tapes would be slightly jumpy inplaces meaning the footage was not usable.


I also used a new piece of technology called Google Docs which allows me to upload files onto the internet. It is also easier to add the files into the blog as i can just paste a link to the file into the blog and whoever is reading the file can then click the link to open up the file in a new window.