February 2017 – Page 2

Filming – Harlaxton Manor – Day 2

February 18, 2017April 24, 2017 Callum Price

We arrived at around 10 again today, with all of our gear set up from yesterday.

The schedule had been changed due to not being able to film yesterday.

The first scene shot was the ballroom dance scene.

As there was not any dialogue needed for this we didn’t play a large role.

I did aid in directing part of this scene, as well as filming.

We then moved on to the dinner scene.

This had been changed since we last visited and needed to be blocked by the actors. Joe and I decided to go and record some soundscapes of different areas.

It took them around 4 hours to block this scene.

We began filming the scene with me working the 633 and Joe using the boom.

This was the final part of the day as a lot of time had been spent blocking scenes.

Overall from an audio perspective the day went really well for us.

Filming – Harlaxton Manor – Day 1

February 17, 2017April 24, 2017 Callum Price

We arrived on set at around 10 o’clock with the shoot scheduled to start at around 11.

I began with sorting out the scene numbers on the 633 while Joe attached radio microphones to the actors. As we had practised with our equipment before hand, we were set up within around 15 minutes.

This day become a practice day for the media team as they were unable to book out their equipment.

We ran a few scenes that would not be used in the final edit.

Joe and I weren’t too happy about this as we were not told beforehand. We had very little to do as they spent most of the day lining up shots for tomorrow.

Due to the media team needing to go to media loans this day finished at around 3.30.

We hadn’t really tracked very much this day, and we were not pleased with the organisation of everything.

Filming – Home Nightclub

February 10, 2017April 24, 2017 Callum Price

The first shoot was at Home nightclub in Lincoln.

This was our opportunity to meet the actors and to get an idea of the media team in a filming environment.

The scene being shot is a flashback scene and mainly consists of music to tie it in with the main story.

Due to this, there wasn’t a lot for Joe and me to do. We decided to put radio microphones on the actors and recorded a set of on set ADR. We did this as a backup just in case the media team decided on adding dialogue.

Overall this shoot went very well from an audio perspective.

Equipment Test

February 7, 2017April 25, 2017 Callum Price

Going on from the advice given in The Location Sound Bible we decided to take out all the equipment we would be using. This was to refresh our memories with it and allow us to be professional on location.

We are using the

Sound Devices 633,
Rifle Mic
Radio Mic’s
Zoom Recorder

Mircrophones

February 5, 2017April 26, 2017 Callum Price

For the shoot, we decided to book out two radio mics and a Sennheiser MKH 416 (Rifle Mic).

As we knew how reverberant the location would be, we looked into what microphones would be best for the situation.

Ric Viers talks about lapel microphones and how they are very dialogue focused. As this is what we mainly wanted to capture while on set we thought these would be the best choice.

The Location Sound Bible also talks about different kinds of boom microphones or shotgun mics. Viers speaks of the advantages that come with a longer microphone. The more extended the microphone, the narrower its pickup pattern. Due to the reverb at the location, we opted for the Sennheiser MKH 416 as we felt this would be best in picking up as little room tone as possible.