Choice of camera and lighting equipment

 3 point lighting 

we have chosen to use three-point lighting because we were able to get good lighting, and this creates a more interesting and more dynamic image where we can have the subject be shown with more dimension ad, we have more control over the shadows we want to create if we need major or minor ones. 3-point lighting is also used to fill in the light instead of just creating shadows, we made the light to be dimmer than the key light and we positioned it at an angle where it gives Selma some depth in some scenes. The reason we chose 3-point lighting is that we wanted to give the shadows a bit more depth and make them sharper.

Choice of camera equipment 

For our film Hallucination, we have chosen the Canon DSLR 250D (with a 18-55 mm lens) as our camera. The reason we have chosen this camera is because this is the camera that we have been advised to use for this task. We have chosen to use a tripod as we will need the camera to capture clips that are not shaky and that do not move.

Canon DSLR 250D with a 18-55 mm lens

Choice of camera settings 

For our short film, we used a range of camera settings to get the shots that we needed to make the atmosphere look as if the film is in a suspenseful mood. So, we have increased the aperture and what this does is it allows less light to enter the camera which we needed as we were filming outside, and we had a lot of light already coming in. This setting was also better for us as we wanted everything to be in focus as we were filming in a group and a landscape.

Changing the shutter speed has also helped us control the amount of light that the camera takes in as this acted like a curtain for us infant of the camera sensor and will remain closed until we start recording.

For the ISO on our short film, we made sure that in certain scenes we decreased it to 200 as we wanted less sensitivity to the light especially in our picnic scene, we turned the iso down as we already had enough natural light coming in, we didn't want to make it go worse. In some scenes, we kept the ISO at 3200 as we needed a lot of light to get the camera as we were indoors, and it was a bit too dark.