On receiving picture lock, we decided to watch the whole film first with camera audio and then using ours.

We first decided which scenes would need replacing with our on set ADR.

The bathroom scene was one which had a few problems on set for some reasons. Firstly, both radio mic’s were unusable. Luka’s radio mic was constantly being ruffled as he was getting dressed in the scene and Olivia’s was under a rather thick coat. This meant both of them were ruled out for their poor quality. The boom was used in conjunction with the onset ADR to help recreate the performance.

As this scene had not been rehearsed before the shoot, the actor’s performance changed throughout the takes. As they settled into the role the way, they read their lines evolved. This meant when we recorded our ADR after shooting the actors said their lines as they had been in the later takes. In editing, they chose an early take. This meant I had to use an unfortunate amount of correction.

I started by using warp within ProTools in an attempt to line up the dialogue. I used this in conjunction with the boom and some harsh EQ and reverb.

I felt this scene came out poorly in my opinion because of this.

iZotope RX is an audio repair plugin which I found particularly useful throughout this project.

This tips and tricks section from iZotope was helpful in explaining the plugins which sped up the repairing process.

https://www.izotope.com/en/community/blog/tips-tutorials/2015/10/rx-5-quickstart-cleaning-up-audio-and-reducing-noise-with-rx-5-audio-editor.html

The plugin features a graphical view of the sound so you can manually select different sections of it. This also allows you to edit different files at once, which was brilliant for sorting large amounts.

I found it excellent for helping with microphone ruffle when tidying up the radio mics.

De-reverb was fantastic at helping give the dialogue that professional finish and sound we were after.

RX also has a feature called ambience match. This is a feature I tried to use, but I never got a product I was happy with. It is supposed to mimic the characteristic and create a continuous version. I found that it sounded too much like static as I believe the rooms we recorded in were too quiet.

RX was exceptionally useful throughout dialogue editing.

 

 

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.

The media team had gained permission to film at Harlaxton Manor in Grantham.

We took a trip down to see what kind of sounds the rooms gave and what problems we might encounter.

The rooms were very reverberant and all had very unique characteristics. We took notes of the rooms they wanted to film in to help us plan for the actual shoot.

We decided on recording atmospherics, and some spot effects at the time of the shooting. This was due to the interesting nature of the rooms and our lack of specialist gear.