Effects of having free use of equipment

All of the equipment we use to film/edit on is owned by the college. This means that we have the ability to use it for free, which drastically affects the costs and process of making the video. In most productions the camera and computers would be hired. Doing this would mean you would have to pay for the camera. The fact we can use them for free means we have a lot more freedom when going to film. This means we have more room to make mistakes, which maybe isn't necessarily a good thing but means we can learn from mistakes. For example, if I were to edit something wrong I would easily be able to keep editing for longer at college, however if it was a real partnership than this would mean it would be costing both parties more money to continue to hire the laptop.