Sound

I'm going to do a separate reflection for my job as the sound director on the shoot, before a general one.

Firstly, during the shoot, my group member came to have a look at my mixer where we were recorded a random noise and it was peaking below 0. She asked if I could adjust it so that it would peak at 0 and have a little red. I said yes, but the problem with that was that because the sound was happening so fast, and this was the softest part of it, I would not be prepared to lower the volumes when it suddenly became loud, and the sound would end up being distorted.

That was a huge challenge I faced during the shoot. Although I was constantly changing the levels of the mixer (a huge thanks to the super group who helped loads with holding the boom pole), the actors read their lines differently in each take, changing their volume constantly in a take, Sometimes I would be unprepared and start off with a sound that is way too loud and have to go for another take so it'll peak perfectly at 0 or slightly above.

There was no way of playing back sound, although tehre was with film, and that makes my job even more nerve wrecking and worrying.

The last time we recorded the Lenny, it ended up peaking too softly, but then again when we played it back in class, the levels were great.

I also wished that there was a way I could have held the boom pole and the mixer as the person holding the pole may have moved, thus affecting my sound quality in the mixer. It would have been better if I could have controlled the both at the same time.

Effects wise, as we are going for a more dramatic thing, I have found much audio to put in, and will probably go with that.

So, I hope the levels will turn out great when we put it in editing!