Logistics Facilities

Logistics Facilities

Equipment

. Tripod

. Lighting

. Slider/glidecam equipment

. Jib/crane

. Track and Dolly

. Lenses

. Camera

HD, full HD and sensor size

A larger sensor will capture more information

Canon Legira

Canon 5D

Canon 1D

Black Magic Cinema Camera

Red Camera 

Recording sound

Sound recorder

Microphone

Boom pole

Wind shield

Lighting equipment

Gels

Filters

Lenses

Stands

Reflectors

Post production

Edit suite + s/w

Sound edit suite + s/w

Post-production equipment

Post-production equipment refers to the various technical parts during post-production that put the film together and make it presentable for release. 

Post-production equipment includes:
Picture Edit
Sound Edit
Visual Effects 
Grading 
Tilting 

Post-production equipment also includes packages and facilities:
Picture Editing package:
Adobe Premiere 
Apple Final Cut Pro
AVID Media Composer 

Sound Editing facilities:
Audacity 
AVID Pro Tools
Steinburg Nuendo 


Facility houses

Facility houses are Companies that hire out a variety of equipment for film, television and video production. 

£10,000 budget for camera and audio equipment

To practice using a budget correctly I decided to give myself a hypothetical budget of £10,000 just for camera and audio equipment. I used three websites to help me make logical decisions on which pieces of education I will purchase. The websites I used were Procam, Provisionequipment and cameraworks.


Equipment

Website one

Camera, Media storage, lighting, lenses, audio recorder, Mic, Light stands, Batteries, Audio cable, Headphones, Lens pen, Card reader, USB cables, C47’s and Gaff Tape, Laptop, Gels and Diffusion, Power, Light stands and Tripod.

Website two

Camera, Lenses, Stabilization, Computer & Storage, Memory Cards, Sound and lighting.

Website two only shows the categories of the equipment you need with one or two examples of each piece of equipment whilst website one delves in to each category and shows each part of that category. For example, with camera unlike website two they showed not just the camera but the lenses and battery required for it to work.

University checklist

There is a lot more equipment on the checklist for the university compared to the two websites above. These include areas that the websites left out. Such as doorway dollies and flags and nets. The checklist makes sure you have any type of equipment you will need for a film project; you are fully prepared for production of a short film. The checklist is also for projects with a bigger budget whilst the websites are for less experienced film makers with a small or no budget.

The checklist is for a different kind of short film than the first websites. This apparent with the casting and crew on the checklist compared to an average short film project that only has the equipment in the other two websites. The short film the websites above were checklists for were tiny budget short films with only a few other members of the crew or even no crew just the person with the camera and the actors. This is the reason why the university checklist is for a bigger budget short film because of some of the crew on the checklists does not fit with the normal crew for a short film but more like a feature film. For example, having a 1^st and 2^nd assistant director is common with a feature film but not a short film unless it is a heavily packed short film like a Sci-Fi short film.

Film camera equipment checklist

 The checklist in this pdf goes in to more detail than the rest of the checklists it also is the longest one and only covers the camera equipment. Due to the price of the equipment and the amount of equipment on the list it is obvious that the checklist is for the production section of a feature film. The amount of equipment also shows that the director has many different types of scenes he wants to shoot due to the amount of different lenses etc, it is very obvious that this equipment is not made for a film shorter than 40 minutes.  

Using the checklist from the first two websites

Using the checklists from the first two websites for a short film would be possible however it will limit what you could do. For example, there are some shots that wouldn’t be possible with the small amount of equipment you have, if you want a certain moving shot you would not be able to do it without great difficulty due to not any kind of dolly on your checklist. The only good shots could be still shots or panning shots due to the only camera mount you have is a tripod. The visuals are not the only thing that will be affected by the small checklist the audio will also be affected. The only audio recorder is the built in one to the camera which is decent however in some scenes you might want to record the background noise or only have the audio of the characters talking but it would be difficult with only the built in mic. It would be easier if there was multiple mics on the checklist like a shotgun mic. Overall the checklists on the first two websites are good but only for the most basics of short films and can be used to create good short films however they do make it difficult to get professional looking shots.