Investment Plan.

Here is the link to my investment plan for the college:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BP1frb3GGySAZvhesuQ2kyVB5CvOlbarbzptT3R8pKk/edit?usp=sharing

Because some of the text is slightly difficult to read, I'll copy the reasons behind my choices onto this blog post below.


Equipment:

Aluminium Tripod.
The tripods that the college use now are large, heavy and are difficult to move around. If we had cameras that were lighter and could fold up smaller, it would save people a lot of time and effort when it comes to moving their equipment, setting up and filming. Buying this in the first year would me an improvement as it would also free up the tech office, and allow there to be more room for storing different equipment instead of a large majority of it being taken up by tripods and their casings.

Canon 6D.
Canon 600Ds are quickly being outplaced by the 700D and the 6D, which are all improving greatly. The quality, weight, size and features are all quickly improving and outdoing the Canon 600D in many different ways, which means that the quality of films shot on college cameras would decrease over the years and look less and less professional, so getting a Canon 6D in two years would mean that although there will have been a newer camera than the 6D out by then, the price of the 6D will have dropped slightly by then, but would still be good quality.

RØDE Stereo VideoMic Pro On-Camera Microphone.
The stereo videomics for the DSLR cameras will soon go out of date, and be replaced by better videomics that have a higher quality of sound recording, as well as cheaper, lighter and generally work better with the newer cameras. Because the camera equipment that the college uses will have been upgraded by this point, the microphone equipment will also need to be replaced otherwise the camera work will greatly outdo the sound recordings when it comes to students work.

Sony CX280 Full HD Handycam.
By the fifth year, the handycams that the college uses will be extremely outdated and bad quality compared to what's out on the market today. These would then therefore need to be replaced with something that is of much higher quality, so a camera that is similar to today's Sony CX280 would be a good choice because it is reasonably priced with good, high quality features and would work well with student's films.



Software:

Final Cut X.
Final Cut 7 is quickly being replaced and is no longer being sold, so the college will soon need to upgrade to Final Cut X to keep up with the software that the industry uses. Although there's not a huge change in the software with the exception of the layout and compatibility to other Final Cut programs, students would need to get used to it more than Final Cut 7 if they wanted to pursue a career in editing as that is what is being used in the profession.

Celtx Studio.
An upgrade to Celtx Studios would be a huge improvement to the college, and help students with their screenplays. It offers many more features that the free version cannot give, and would allow students to access their screenplay and notes from anywhere with the cloud feature on Celtx Studios. It offers storyboarding, shot lists, character profiles, production files etc. etc. which would help many students with the writing aspects of their productions and allow them to keep things in more of an organised order.

Screen-Recording Software.
The college doesn't particuarly have a decent screen-recording software. Although we can use Quicktime, it's not amazing, and could easily be updated by buying a screen-recording software from the Apple store. They are cheap, good quality and offer a lot of features, and would be very useful to students when doing presentations, as it would allow them to record the screen as they speak and present it.

Microsoft Office 2016.
By this point, Office 2011 will be out of date by a number of years, and to keep up with new software that's being used, the college should upgrade to Microsoft Office 2016 - as it would be 2017 by this point, and instead of spending lots of money on buying the newest version, it would be just as useful and money saving to buy the one from the year before, as it shouldn't have changed drastically compared to the huge differences between Office 2011 and 2016.

Viven.
With this software, student would be able to accurately draw their own floor plans, as well as design sets in large detail. Lighting and camera arrangements can also be decided on and worked out on this software, and it would also allow us to have a virtual view of our sets - which we can render to be able to use during explanations of how things will be filmed in a clear and precise way. It's a software that we don't yet have, but would be extremely useful to us as it would allow us to create these things digitally instead of on paper, and give us more control with our ideas and pre-production planning.