LO3: Production materials in line with plan

When filming my Trailer, I used a variety of equipment to create the scenes I had planned on my storyboard. 

Camera: the most important piece of equipment I used was the camera, this was to get high quality footage compared to other alternatives such as filming with a phone, and allows me to control the image manually too, such as adjusting the focus so the subject can be seen easily. 

Tri-pod: Another piece of equipment I used was a tri-pod, this allowed me to hold the camera still in scenes so that the shot wasn't shaky, this creates a much more visually appealing scene and overall improves the trailer quality. The trip-pod also allowed me to create smooth turns and camera rotations making scenes more exciting/engaging to watch as the camera follows the subject. However one negative aspect of the tripod is that, even at the smallest size adjustment, it was still to big to record scenes that took place close to the ground, resulting in me having to prop the camera up on boxes or holding it manually making filming some scenes much more difficult and time consuming.

LED Site Light: As the genre of my teaser is horror, lighting is very important in scenes as you want them to be dark, but still make the subject visible, this is why the pole lamp was a valuable piece of equipment as it allowed me to directly control where the light was coming from as well as allowing me to highlight a subject and create a strong visual contrast, these all helped to give the trailer more style and make it more visually appealing. However, one negative of the pole lamp is that it didn't allow me to control how much  light was in a scene, as it only had one setting which was very bright. To work around this issue, I used a white t-shirt and/or a plastic bag to reduce the amount of light in the shot and change how the light looked.

Powerful portable LED light: This was the second piece of lighting equipment that I used to control how the scenes looked. Although this lamp produced much less light, it was much smaller, allowing me to use it more flexibly in tight areas. One example of this is the fireplace shot, as the fireplace wasn't producing enough light for the desired effect, I put a yellow cap over the lamp (to create a fire-yellow light) and placed it in front of my actor to make it appear as if the fire is producing the light, making the silhouette much more bold.