I haven't post anything regarding the studio shoot because I hadn't done things that I wanted to write about, until last week.
But, the time has come and I'm gonna write briefly about them.
As you can see on the following pictures, the beginning of this project was all about building the set.
Building, glueing, flooring and painting.
After the set was built my roll as a sound recordist was pretty straight forward. The only thing I wanted to make sure was the type of microphone I was going to use. Therefore, I asked Anne to book
the Rode NTG3 microphone instead of the NTG2, which is what DFSA students would normally get.
On the actually shooting day, my job was to find a good place to stand, and hold the microphone to get clear sound. Because the microphone was connected to the camera, and not a audio recorder, I asked people to help me monitoring the audio levels.
Wildtrack - That was another thing that I kept in mind the whole time. So, after we finished the scene, the crew kept in silence for about a minute, so I could record the ambience sound (wild track). To be honest, we weren't that quite, which gave me extra work in post, but I come to that later.
In addition to that, during the shooting, there were a lot of noises (camera dolly, people talking, steps). Because of that, after we finished shooting, I've asked to record some folly (foot steps and the sofa rubber) , while we were still in the studio.
POS Production
After I was sent a edited version of the film, I then started working on Adobe Audition to assemble sound.
Open a New Multitrack Session and choosing a destination. From the begging I've being told to keep my projects organised, I reckon I've being doing that in ever single project don't matter how small it is.
Importing files
Enabling Video Window
Rearranging the Working Space
Because I knew I was going to need to work in the Waveform editor, I made a copy of my file using 'Convert To Unique Copy'. This is because, the waveform editor uses destructive method.
'Cleaning up' the wild track - As I said before, the wild track should be the ambience sound only, but that didn't happen. Therefore, I had to use the Healing Tool in the Waveform view to clean up all the noises.
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The last thing I did was to record the narration for our film, that wasn't too hard. I got the Marantz audio record and the NTG2 Microphone. Joshua gave me a big hand and accept to have his voice recorded.
Beforehand, I had asked Thomas, who was the director for this film, to give me some reference of how he wanted the text to be read.
He sent me this video:
Joshua gave me a big hand and accept to have his voice recorded
Audio Narration
Final Evaluation
Working as an audio editor/recordist wasn't something particularly new for me and because of that I didn't have much problem to play these roles. However, regarding sound, I would like to have contributed more in the final process. I believe that we, as a group, should have adopted a tighter schedule to allow everyone, who was part of the pos production process, a fair amour of time to work on the piece.
The process of building a set is not something I want to do again. But, I can see how the experience can be beneficial for those who want to improve teamwork or even DIY skills. But, it is a process which one have to follow instructions that had been decided beforehand; hence, not a very creative role.
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