Equipment used
When me and Nadege (Producer) had a meet up with Sobia for the first time in a cafe we took a zoom H4N recorder, and a lapel mic to get a clear audio recording of her voice. However, once we had turned up to location and we were ready to start, the connection between the lapel mic and the zoom recorder didn't seem to work at all so we had to improvise and use the zoom's microphone to record Sobia's voice which I then cleaned up when it came to post-production. We only used this recording for the short poetic documentary.
Then for the second time the whole group met Sobia we went into the sound recording studio in Harmer and used a zoom H4N recorder again, with a sennheiser 416 boom microphone and a lapel mic to go into more detail with our questions for Sobia. We have used most of this recording for our 5-10 minute documentary as a narration.
The third time we had a shoot was when the whole crew went to Barney's house to film a sit down interview with both Barney and Sobia in order to get some more information from them both on Sobia's condition and to get a better insight to their relationship and how it has helped Sobia. We took a lot of equipment to this shoot, we took some dedo lights, however we could only use two of them because one of the bulbs broke as we arrived. We used an XF305 camera and video camera tripod to record the visuals of Barney and Sobia. For the sound equipment we used two lapel mics, a sennheiser boom microphone, a boom pole, a H4N zoom recorder and some sennheiser headphones. I was the one to listen to the recording from the boom microphone connected to the camera and Courtney (The first sound recordist) was a boom operator and listened to the recording of the lapel mics being recorded on the H4N zoom. However, we had a bad connection again with one of the lapel mics and lead to a constant buzzing on one of the recordings, however I managed to clean this error up by using noise reduction on Protools and Adobe Auditions.
The fourth and final shoot we made was when me and Amber (camera operator) got some cutaways of Sheffield City center and then went on to interview Sobia and her friend in a cafe in town. The equipment we used was a Canon 600D DSLR, a video camera tripod, a H4N zoom recorder for the sound along with a sennheiser boom microphone and sennheiser headphones. This shoot day seemed to turn out quite well despite only having two members of the crew.
Half way through the module me and Courtney decided to switch roles so that I would be the sound designer and Courtney would be the editor. We made this decision because I felt like I had too much work to do at this stage as I was the person to organise shooting days and be in touch with Sobia as I was the closest to her and I would be helping Courtney do the sound design as well because she wasn't certain on what she had to do with the software and what equipment to use. Therefore I thought it would be both easier for me and Courtney to swap roles. Up until that point I had used Avid Media Composer to edit together the poetic documentary as well as part of the 5-10 minute documentary. From switching roles I have managed the sound recording on every shoot set and I have already cleaned audio and created a short soundtrack for the 5-10 minute documentary. I feel like I am more comfortable being the sound designer for this project as the documentary itself hasn't had much of a direction and has been very complicated already.
Equipment in order of being mentioned:
H4N zoom recorder
Lapel Mics
Sennheiser 416 boom microphone
Dedo lights
Canon XF305 camera
Boom pole
Sennheiser headphones
Canon 600D DSLR
Avid Media Composer
Pro-tools
Adobe Audition
The third time we had a shoot was when the whole crew went to Barney's house to film a sit down interview with both Barney and Sobia in order to get some more information from them both on Sobia's condition and to get a better insight to their relationship and how it has helped Sobia. We took a lot of equipment to this shoot, we took some dedo lights, however we could only use two of them because one of the bulbs broke as we arrived. We used an XF305 camera and video camera tripod to record the visuals of Barney and Sobia. For the sound equipment we used two lapel mics, a sennheiser boom microphone, a boom pole, a H4N zoom recorder and some sennheiser headphones. I was the one to listen to the recording from the boom microphone connected to the camera and Courtney (The first sound recordist) was a boom operator and listened to the recording of the lapel mics being recorded on the H4N zoom. However, we had a bad connection again with one of the lapel mics and lead to a constant buzzing on one of the recordings, however I managed to clean this error up by using noise reduction on Protools and Adobe Auditions.
The fourth and final shoot we made was when me and Amber (camera operator) got some cutaways of Sheffield City center and then went on to interview Sobia and her friend in a cafe in town. The equipment we used was a Canon 600D DSLR, a video camera tripod, a H4N zoom recorder for the sound along with a sennheiser boom microphone and sennheiser headphones. This shoot day seemed to turn out quite well despite only having two members of the crew.
Half way through the module me and Courtney decided to switch roles so that I would be the sound designer and Courtney would be the editor. We made this decision because I felt like I had too much work to do at this stage as I was the person to organise shooting days and be in touch with Sobia as I was the closest to her and I would be helping Courtney do the sound design as well because she wasn't certain on what she had to do with the software and what equipment to use. Therefore I thought it would be both easier for me and Courtney to swap roles. Up until that point I had used Avid Media Composer to edit together the poetic documentary as well as part of the 5-10 minute documentary. From switching roles I have managed the sound recording on every shoot set and I have already cleaned audio and created a short soundtrack for the 5-10 minute documentary. I feel like I am more comfortable being the sound designer for this project as the documentary itself hasn't had much of a direction and has been very complicated already.
Equipment in order of being mentioned:
Sennheiser 416 boom microphone
Canon XF305 camera
Boom pole
Sennheiser headphones
Avid Media Composer
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