Use of Equipment

These were significant equipment we used to create our A2 production, post AS production we have gained a greater knowledge of how to use equipment effectively.

We chose to buy a green screen specifically for the making of our film poster as a green screen enables us to edit the background easily.We attempted to achieve a conventional film poster look for our genre. After doing a lot of research we found that the majority of film posters have their backgrounds edited with green screens in order to have a clean and smooth edit.

We chose to have Lola (the protagonist) as the main image with a light yellow background, yellow connoting happiness, a comic feel and additionally summer. Due to the nature of our green screen we were able to edit our background to how we imagined it. Additionally, we added to the background a cartoon of marmalade jars and doodle like cartoons, we experimented with vibrant colours until we found best fit.

I also invested money into buying a LED light that we could attach to our camera, as I additionally study photography, this was the perfect opportunity. The LED Light was very useful as it allowed us to control the lighting of the scenes as we could increase and decrease the levels of lighting on the LED light on the side of it. Therefore allowing us to film our scenes even in when it was dark outside. This was a struggle for us as we were filming a majority of the scenes during winter, so it would get dark quite promptly after school hours.
Our A2 production had definitely progressed from our AS production in the aspect of lighting as we did not have any equipment to help us control lighting in our AS production therefore we only presented our audience with dim bedroom lighting. The shots in the attic were sometimes unclear due to lack of lighting used, however this conformed to our chosen genre.


For the most part of the narration, we used our "Scartlett Studio 2i2" which enabled a clearer sound. However we didn't have enough time to mess around with levels so it was too clear for our trailer as it played over the soundtrack.

 The main camera we used was my CANON 700D, the same camera used for our AS Production, however used to its best advantage. In our AS production we went for a hand held concept and decreased the quality to conform to a cam-corder. Whereas, for our A2 trailer, we used it in both natural and forced lighting, and payed attention to camera angles and lighting closing, especially composition.