Camera Specifications

In terms of camera specifications and camera equipment, we have many of the resources we require at this initial date. The various technical equipment will certainly aid our finished product, and provide the professional touch we feel we deserve, after a thorough session of pre-production. For the shooting itself we will be using..

A Sony 5K will be our base recording device. This camera is highly efficient and delivers effective results through a crisp, clean shot. I myself already have this model, as I often use it for my own, individual extra-curricular film work. An example of the rich depth of field that can be achieved can be seen to the right.

In order to create the rich, professional-looking depth of field in our shots, we require a photographic lens which sits comfortably with the Sony 5K. We will use an 18-55mm lens, which comes with the 5K. This depth of lens is perfect and highly adaptable for a diversity of situations and scenes, whilst delivering a superb shot for post-production. 

As well as the capturing equipment, we need further equipment to assist in camera movement. We will of course be using a tripod for much of the shooting. Even when a dynamic and shaky shot is required, we will artificially create this using a tripod, to control the level of shake. Long shots especially will make use of the static outcome of using a tripod, in order to set a cinematic scene.


We have some further ideas and miscellaneous equipment we wish to make use of in order to 'put the icing on the cake' of a professional sequence. For example, I am considering storyboarding several tracking shots, which would of course require a camera 'dolly', which is effectively a device which shifts the camera along two parallel rails to give a real sense of movement. This will allow us to add to the dynamic theme and emphasise our planning in production.