Cameras
Flip Camera
Pentax K-7
We used the flip camera for the hand held shots and the Pentax K-7 for the still cinematic shots.
Laptop
We used Max's Apple MacbookPro to edit the film together.
Editing software
iMovie
Garageband
We used iMovie and Garageband to edit our film and compose the music.
Our Style of Filming
We wanted to create a new genre of cinematography in our trailer, we did this by using two different cameras. The flip camera was used for handheld shots like in The Blair Witch Project. This is to give a sense of realism to the trailer. This matches the styles of Paranormal activity, and the advantages of this are that you can draw an audience in and make it more realistic. However the drawbacks are the amount of little cinematography you can achieve. This is why we decided to use the Pentax K-7, a normal SLR digital camera but with video recording. This way we can create shots that have the same quality as an artistically well lit photograph. This is perfect for creating a sense of art to the film, a bit like in the film Antichrist. The advantages are that we can make beautiful shots with stunning video quality. The drawbacks however, is that most of the time it needs to be on a tripod and stood still in order to work to it's full potential. In spite of this, it did work well when we decided to move the camera around for certain shots, but not as well as it was when it stayed still.
The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity Examples of Camera Style.
You can see here that using a handheld camera does create a great sense of realism but in terms of quality cinematography it's not so great, notice the amount of light on the main characters body, it is too much light to even see what she is wearing.
Again in The Blair Witch Project you can see how real the shot looks, this is down to the quality of the shot aswell as the mise-en-scene of the shot. But it is also way to dark to see everything properly.
Antichrist Example of Camera Style
The cinematography of Anthony Dod Mantle in the film Antichrist is so good that it has been given awards. It is truly beautiful. The cameras used were a Phantom V4 in at 1,000 frames per second for one certain scene in which everything was shot in extreme slow motion but still managed to maintain a crystal clear image quality and a
Red One cameras in 4K
resolution was used for every other bit of filming. We used the Pentax K-7 in order to get great image quality and lighting in certain scenes to really bring a dramatic and professional look to our trailer.
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