Sound Practise

For this practise we shot two two scenes, one in a large room, which has a lot of background noise and a scene outside. We used a stereo mike for the scene outside and a rode directional mike for the scene inside.

In the scene in the large room, several problems occurred such as the large amount of background noise which can be heard, hopefully when we film our trailer we won't encounter this problem due to us not filming at locations with lots of people, however we need to make sure that when we are filming we have silence. In this scene we the rode directional mike also fell into the shot for a second before moving back out. This is something we definitely have to avoid and therefore need we need a dedicated sound guy who will be able to hold the boom pole steady for a long period of time. We also need to check through our footage after we have finished to make sure it hasn't slipped in. Overall I felt this scene went well apart from the minor slip up of the boom pole falling into shot, it went extremely well. The background noise was frustrating however it was unavoidable as it was such a large room with lots of people in.

For our next scene we filmed outside using the stereo mike. This scene went very well, unfortunately we couldn't find the setting to tune out the wind and so this can be heard throughout, when filming we should aim to turn on this setting in order to give our film a more professional feel. The mike picked up all the sound even from quite far away very clearly and didn't come into shot once, so I feel that this scene was overall quite successful.

AF