The very minimum
Camera wise you can't go far wrong with your bog standard Canon DSLR [preferably the 600D or better], if you want 4K quality on a budget another good camera system is the DJI osmo[http://www.dji.com/product/osmo], it's a gimbal stablised 4K wide angle camera for around £550.
Now for your audio a Rode [http://www.rode.com/] video mic is great for your on camera audio as it plugs directly into a 3.5mm mic jack, if you want to isolate dialogue you can give your actors Rode smartlav mics connected to a smartphone
Upping the anti
Now maybe that's not for you and you have a couple of thousand lying around that you can spend... .well there are 2 options for you're camera system, both can use standard EF mount lenses, well one will with some mods and the other has an inbuilt EF mount.
First option and the cheaper of the 2 is the Lumix GH4 with metabones EF to MFT mount adapter, there are plenty of Micro four thirds lenses out on the market so the metabones adapter isn't 100% necessary but good to have.
Option 2 is a Blackmagic mini URSA [https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/blackmagicursamini], it's basically the best Cinema camera there is in the price bracket, it records to C-fast cards that yeah are expensive but it's a new transfer format so most likely will get cheaper and suck much like SD cards have, it has 2 channels for audio takes both 12v industry standard camera power or V-mount batteries that are used world wide.
Audio at this level is a big thing, both cameras listed have the function to monitor it through headphones so you can get it right in camera, but for capturing that sound you need the right kit, again I'd go with Rode, they have a couple of new wireless kits out or waiting to release [filmmaker and newsshooter respectively] that will let you have more freedom with your filming, they have a 100m range and run off of USB power, AA batteries and L-mount batteries, the Newsshooter kit has an XLR transmitter than can be mounted on an in-hand mic or be mounted to a shotgun mic inside a mic blimp on a pole, or you use the filmmaker to put wireless lav mics on your actors or reporter and guests.
Now for the mic's themselves you'll be good with a Rode reporter mic if you're doing pieces to camera for news and vlogs but if you're making a short film you'll be wanting a NTG4 or something similar.
And sadly that's all I've got time to write tonight as it's getting on to 11pm and I've got a long day ahead of me tomorrow but I hope this has helped any of you who are looking at getting into doing indy film, reporting or film making in general.
This is Adam signing off once again
