Props and Equipment

When it comes to filming my production I must make it as believable as possible to keep my audience maintained in a trance like state to speak, using props are a very good way of maintaining this illusion and help make a character or a scene more believable. This is key when it comes to making my film opening as I want it to have a film quality look to it, obviously this cannot be done with the cameras we have available too us so I will make sure that everything else filming and editing wise is pristine. To help me achieve this level of precision I will make the most of the media equipment that I do have at my disposal.

Props:

The main prop I used in my film opening was a replica Makarov pistol that was supplied by one of my friends, it plays a key role in my film opening when it appears that the main character is safe and ready to take on the zombies when in fact when it comes to shooting the pistol the main character realises that it has no ammo, once again making the audience panic for the mans safety.

Other more subtle props were the clothes my infected were wearing, to keep the opening believable I made sure that my infected were wearing casual clothes to emphasise the fact that anyone can become infected and that no one is safe. However to make the scene look more believable I should have made their clothes and the faces of the infected grubbier to show that they are more animal like in their thinking and do not care for cleanliness.

Equipment:

When it came to filming my work the most basic but most important piece of equipment I had at my disposal was a Panasonic SDR-S50 digital camera provided by my school, it was the newest camera that I had at my disposable, however is not high definition as I would have preffered to film with a HD camera to make sure that I ended up with a higher quality finished product.

To make sure I kept my camera shots as steady as possible when they were meant to be steady I used a tripod provided by my school. This was proved to be very useful when it came to filming almost every shot that I took, especially the panning shot of the corpse ridden street, and gave me some very fixed quality looking shots. The adjustable legs made it very easily fit into any location I needed it at as well at most heights and the adjustable handle made panning shots slow far smoother.