Hardware

The camera we will be using wont be the cameras

provided by school but instead, a camera owned by one of the group.

The camera model is a Sony Handy cam and the features are as follows

• Standard definition video recording on affordable mini DV tape.
  
• There is a 40x optical zoom and a super steady technology built in to provide a higher quality during shaky circumstances. Yet if this is not an effective measure then a tri-pod can be used to achieve the shot needed.
• There is a 800k pixel ccd sensor with a Carl Zeiss lens showing that the camera we are using is of a high quality.
• The focus adjustment is both automatic and manual which allows the group to have control over what is in focus in the scene.
• The microphone is inter grated into the camera with stereo sound, however to improve on this a boom mike could be purchased to have a higher quality of sound and would avoid such disadvantages as excluding background noise and being able to block out more ambient noise when the subject is a distance away from the camera.
• There are several shooting modes which are available on the camcorder including the various shooting modes -spotlight, landscape, portrait, sports mode which is used to eradicate blur when filming fast moving objects and various others which are modes for different lighting so little manual tampering needs to be undergone such as a twilight and sunrise setting.
• Another set of effects which is custom to this model is under the category of special effects and includes such visual effects as solarisation, sepia (which gives the impression that the sequence is aged yet original), mosaic ( which almost pixelates the frame), pastel ( which washes out the colours), monotone aka black and white and finally negative art.

 

• In terms of the white balance feature on this camera there is the option to have a custom white balance which can be manually adjusted or use and automatic white balance. Then extending into indoor and outdoor modes.
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To take the stills of the location a simple camera phone was used with a reasonably decent camera function. The model of this phone was the Nokia 95 8gb.

The camera phone has a five mega pixel camera which has a 2592-1944 pixels resolution so it will still retain its quality so when sent to a computer it wont pixelate.

It also has an auto focus feature which enables stills to be taken even with a shaky hand. There are other features around the camera such as a sepia, black and white and negative aesthetic. This would be useful if the film would be edited in these ways as it would portray the picture.

The phone also has a USB port enabling the pictures to be easily imported on to the PC which can then be uploaded onto blogger, as well as blue tooth which enables the files to be sent directly to the macs.

To accomplish this we used Apple Mac computers. The properties are listed below.

Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version: 1.8f2
Serial Number: W87090DWY3W