Anita SarkeesianInterview
Media critic, creator (Feminist Frequency)
Adapted from Anita Sarkeesian's interview on Uses This, published 4 March 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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If I film outside of my studio I often use a Sanken COS-11D Miniature Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone.
My main lighting rig consists of two Kino Flo Diva-Lite 200 Fluorescents with both daylight and tungsten lamps.
The newest addition to my filming set up is IKAN's Elite iPad Teleprompter Kit.
The teleprompter kit is fairly top heavy and ends up putting too much pressure on the tripod's removable faceplate so I use a heavier duty Calumet tripod with an attached faceplate camera mount.
My producer and I both have Retina Display MacBook Pros with 16GB of RAM.
Drive crashes have already been an issue during my current project so for editing video I now use the Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB Dual Drive set up in RAID 1 to protect data and footage.
For research and recording video game footage I use the El Gato Game Capture High Definition Game Recorder to collect gameplay.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
Design
Media
I use the web based video-translation platform Amara to create English captions for all my videos.
VLC is my primary media player but I also use Plex Media Center with the Plex Home Theater app to organize and watch videos, TV shows and movies.
Storage
Dropbox and Apple's Airdrop are used often to share files quickly.
Other
My capture box software runs on a separate older MacBook Pro which I use for capturing gameplay and running my PLEX media server.
I use an older version of LittleSnapper (before they rebranded) to screen cap, tag and organize images.
(Note: MPEG Streamclip does not interface properly with Apple's Retina display so I had to use the QuickRes app to change my screen resolution in order to get the app working correctly).