What Technology Did I Use?

Filming title sequences no activity for the stone age! It requires a lot more technology than one may think. Now, considering that we are only in high school and do not have a Hollywood budget, our title sequences didn't require green screens and CGI. But, we still did have our fair usage of technology! 

1) Canon Rebel T3i and T4i

I own my own Canon Rebel T3i, and Mr. Engle owns a Canon Rebel T4i which he allows his students to borrow. During our first round of production at Super 8, we had used both Canons. However, during our true production at our school's hospital simulation, we only used my Canon Rebel T3i. This was especially useful for adjusting the lighting and for doing a rack focus.

2) iPhone X and iPhone 8 

I own an iPhone X, which is what we did the majority of our filming on, considering it has the best camera. Along with that, we shot on Roberts iPhone 8 when filming on multiple cameras at once. Both of these proved useful when the Canon got too heavy for our arms to hold steady. The iPhones were much lighter, which made our shots less shaky, and they made it easier to get abnormal shots (high angle, rack focus, etc.) 

3) Industrial Lights

Pierce owned two industrial lights, which we used to create a human shadow behind the curtains. This took a few "trial and error" events in order to find out exactly how high/low and how close/far away to hold the light from the curtain in order to achieve the perfect shadow. Eventually, we got the hang of it.

*Along with the lights, we also briefly used an old laptop as technology, in which we had a word document typed up (similar to the papers typed up in 'The Shining'), and we used this in one of our shots.*