Summery

This LO was tailored to recording on set with the 633. I researched into different microphones and techniques during the recording process. This was a strong foundation to build the project off.

This day consisted of shooting a lot of small scenes and cinematic shots.

This was good for us as it gave us time to sort out many different spot effects in the rooms.

As the rooms were a unique sounding, capturing spot effects on location was something we wanted to do.

We spent this day collecting footsteps, car sounds, reverb checks and atmos.

The scenes shot during the day consisted of a bathroom scene which was challenging due to background noise, and a scene where the female character drives up to the house.

We tried to capture as many sounds as we could on location to keep it authentic. This would also help in post when we would come to add reverb and other effects, as we would know what these areas sounded like.

While on set we encountered a lot of issues with microphone noise from the radio mics.

For the scene, the male lead was wearing a shirt. The microphone was rubbing against the material on the shirt causing a lot of unwanted noise.

We looked into different methods of removing this noise. Tape was one solution that we found very achievable.

This article here has a video showing some different ways to help not just hide the mic but keep it away from the material.

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/10/7-great-techniques-hiding-lav-microphones

Joe and I bought multiple various types of tape from Packing tape to medical tape. We found an article on Reddit that mentioned that the tape had to be a smooth as possible.

The medical tape after some trial and error worked out really well.

We were happy with the result.

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.

The first shoot was at Home nightclub in Lincoln.