The Software and Hardware

The Software is called, Final Cut Expess 4. http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/

The difference between AS couresework and A2 is that as opposed to working on iMovie HD to edit the film, we now have to do it on Final Cut Express. Overall, this was good to use because the film has turned out brilliantly however it definately took everyone out of our comfort zones by trying to learn how to use it correctly. I had aome trouble to begin with but many advantages came with using this particular type of software.

1. The first advantage is that the amount of tools and special features of this is far more to add audio and visual effects this provides more choice and for peoples films to look more unique and different compared to others.
2. Next, is that you can have more that just one screen to work on instead of the likes of iMovie which only just allows you to view and edit one scene at a time. This can really improve editing ability.

1. The negatives are that as there is more choice of how you want to edit a film it means there are more features and tools that you need to learn and remember more things. But the tutorials are made so easy to understand on the final cut 4 website and tell you everything from importing clips to editing and publishing.
2. It's definately problematic starting to work on a bigger, better movie maker because things are so much more simple on iMovie.

The Hardware we used is a camcorder to record footage called Cannon Wide Screen MV920.

It's features are a standard RCA cable, an AC cable, LCD display, 1 + Li-ion rechargable battery, optical zoom 25, digital zoom 800, lens focal length 2.6 to 65mm, filter diametre 35mm and a 12/6 Bit PCM digital stereo audio.

Everything is simple on this and self explanatory because every setting is labelled, from recording to zoom and shutter up/down. The only thing you need to supply is the mini DV tape which places on all your footage as you record. To go with the camera was a tripod, this was a TD 1932 Photo and Video tripod. Good for enabling panning shots and for the camera not to be shaky. Many camera footage i have done in the past, i haven't used a tripod but you really do notice the difference of quality when it's there.

To take still images we used a Fujifilm Finepix A900 camera and many i took on my own is a Kodak Easyshare C513 3X optical zoom, this was to take pictures of the cast, locations and props etc. All were uploaded onto the blog. http://fujifilm.co.uk/