A1 Logistics: Availability Of Equipment

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Availability Of Equipment

 When buying or hiring equipment It is crucial to pick the right equipment as it can affect the entire filming of your production and for your budget in general, it can take an unnecessary and detrimental chunk out of your budget, and if the budget was initially small to begin with it can be even more of a problem. Not only will it hurt the budget but it will also harm the overall filming of the production as well. For example, if a camera fails to start working it would therefore mean that the crew is incapable of filming, slowing down the movement of the process, this would link to why deadlines are important, as failure to complete something on time has a domino effect within the process and the loss of equipment could therefore ruin the following tasks that follow.

Another issue you need to consider with availability of equipment is the budgeting. For example, when filming a high budget project the company/crew/people behind it may choose to actually purchase the equipment to use as they will. This would also be the case in productions that last a long period of time and take a lot of time and effort to finish. Whereas productions that have smaller budgets may choose to hire equipment instead as it would be much cheaper in regards to obtaining your budget and not going over the set price. It is also ideal for productions that will not take a large amount of time, hiring equipment for short periods would be more efficient in regards of budget as you don’t have to spend large amounts of money on the equipment that you can hire for a cheaper price. There is a detrimental difference between prices of buying a hiring. For example, to buy a RED camera, including all the lenses and other accessories would cost averagely around £100,000. Whereas to hire a RED camera it only costs £850 daily. Therefore, if you are contemplating hiring or buying equipment you should take the length into consideration

Availability Of Equipment Average Prices

·         Film Range Camera- £3000
·         Monitor- £1000
·         Lens- £500
·         Tripod- £15
·         Shoulder Rig- £30--£100 (Depending on quality)
·         Shotgun Mic- £135
·         Extension Cables/ Adapters- £5
·         Wireless Kit- £279
·         Audio Recorder £20

Availability Of Equipment For Short Film

·       Film Range Camera- £0 (Provided by The Beacon School)
·       Monitor- £0  (Provided by The Beacon School)
·       Lens- £0 (Provided by The Beacon School)
·       Tripod- (Can be provided from The Beacon School)
·       Shoulder Rig- £50 (Amazon)
·       Shotgun mic- £135 (Amazon)
·       Extension Cables/ Adapters- £0 (Taken from home)
·       Boom- £10 (Amazon)
·       Wireless kit- £279 (Amazon)
·       Audio Recorder- £20 (Amazon)


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