R+P Post 28: My kit list

The next step of our preparations was to create a list of all the equipment we planned to use in our shoot.

A couple of lenses we used, a 100mm prime,
 and a 75-300mm telephoto.

Due to the fact we are shooting the entirety of our music video in the studio at school, the majority with the green screen, we can use a lot more kit than we would have had we been shooting in another location.

The lectern was very useful as it allowed us to connect the
Macbook to the studio's sound system to listen to the track
whilst we recorded the lip-sync sections.

Kit List

• Canon 5D Mk II
• Canon 600D
• Lenses (50mm, 75-300mm, 24-150mm)
• Arri floor lights (x5)
• Leap Frog lighting desk
• Studio ceiling lights
• Tripod (x2)
• Dolley
• Batteries (x 6)
• SD Card (x 2)
• HDMI cable (to connect camera to TV)
• 50-inch TV Monitor (for us to see what we record in a much greater detail)
• Lectern
• Macbook Pro
• Studio control tablet

My Canon 600d

Cameras
We alternated between the media department's Canon 5D Mk II and my Canon 600d as not only did this allow faster shooting (as we could have one set up for a CU and another set up for an MCU), but it also allowed us to spend less time changing camera settings.

It allowed us this as for many scenes we required slow motion, and so we could leave my camera set to shoot at 50fps whilst the other was still 25fps.

The Leap Frog lighting desk.

Lighting

The Leap Frog lighting desk was very useful as it allowed us to save our settings for which lights were on or off, and what intensity we had saved them at.

It saved these set ups as 'memories', and these memories could be loaded to instantly pick up from where we left off when testing.