Evaluation (analysing sound)

My group consisted of me (Harry Plunkett), Edd Headen, Jack Neale and Casey Brown. During this task we recorded Jack and Edd reading from a script, we did this purely to analysis the sound. We filmed in three different location, the first being a empty classroom, second was outside in the car park and lastly was in a busy corridor.

In the empty classroom we encountered our first problem which was the nearby computers and the florescent lighting producing a slight humming sound and also some sound from outside the classroom. When we came back to filming the second time we used a personal microphone instead of using the boom, this got rid of the humming sound and there was less people outside of the classroom so it was more controllable.

The second location which was outside in the car park we had several problems such as buzzing from the generator we were next to and nearby traffic. The way we got round these problems and learning from the first attempt we moved from the generator and luckily the weather was a lot less windy, moving meant there was no buzzing but there was still a little bit of traffic which we could not do anything about.

The last was in a busy corridor for this there were two problems found out after reviewing our first attempt, the first one was people walking past and a common problem which is in most location is the humming fluorescent lights. The way we got around this is using the personal microphones cause we had successful sound quality from using it for our first location. People walking past is a hard problem to get around but we decided to do it when it was least busiest and when people walked past we asked them to keep the noise down.

As a group, we worked really well as we have work together before and there's always chemistry. We talk to each other daily and this makes it easy to get ideas to each other. If I did it again I would defiantly chose this group again as it was such a success.

Overall I believe our second attempt was a lot more successful than the first, we learnt from our experiences and made the sound quality a lot better using different microphones works in certain location such as using a personal microphones only really work well indoors cause it can't handle the weather conditions. Moving location is one of the easiest things to do to sort audio problems but it can really effect you production.

I have learnt from this task and I will be taking this information with me when doing my FMP, the audio is important to any production and I want to make mine as good as possible.