Sound Test

For this practise we shot two two scenes, one in a large room which had lots of background noise and echoes. And the other outside, which had lots of wind, but not much other surrounding sound. 

For the indoor scene we used a rode directional mike on a boom pole to achieve maximum sound from the actors whilst in the noisy room. The background noise was an issue, distorting all sound a bit, particularly as the room was echoey, meaning sound form other people and elsewhere traveled further. For our filming we want to massively avoid these sorts of rooms, ones where there are lots of people, thus more background noise, and room where it is more echoey, as any sound will be more easily heard. Another issue we had was the boom pole lowering the mike into the shot for a few seconds, which will be unacceptable in our real media product. The boom pole is heavy for one person to hold for long periods of time, hence when we do our filming we will make sure we have another person helping support the mike, and be particularly careful about this happening. All in all, the scene went well, the only major downfall being the surrounding background noise, but this was unavoidable.

For our next scene we filmed outside using the stereo mike, which went better than the indoor filming, mainly due to the surrounding sound being minimal. The only downfall was the actress being slightly quieter due to the mike, particularly as the shot was not as close in, meaning the mike had to be held slightly further away from her in order to not be in frame. As well as this, there was a lot of win, mainly due to the location being so open, but this too was unavoidable, but is something we must consider avoiding when filming and choosing our locations. Overall, I feel both scenes went well, and gave us insight into what to avoid, and what to be careful of when filming our media product. 

EL