//In this meeting Dave told us we need to be focussing on our learning outcomes, for this we decided to approach the film team and ask for their ideal delivery requirements from us so that we could manufacture our outcomes to fit their needs.
//Before the main shoot at Harlaxton manor, we went to have a look at the area, to see what the challenges would be for recording audio in that space, we discovered that some of the rooms echoed quite a lot and had loud squeaky floors, to counter this as much as possible we aim to use close proximity radio microphones to try and isolate good quality dialogue from the actors. Another issue is that the actors need to dance to music to maintain the correct timing in dance scenes, so we will have to create the sound of footsteps through foley instead of on location.
We decided it would be good to record the sound of the reverb in the rooms by clapping so we could replicate it in the studio and make sure that any sounds we recorded sank into the scenes well.
//In this meeting we discussed splitting up the roles a little bit, so we knew where our research started.
Callum and myself decided that I am more suited towards operating the boom microphone and fitting the microphones onto the actors, and Callum is more suited towards using the 633 itself to set gains and to control the recording starts.
We plan to alternate a little bit to give ourselves a good chance of experience, but these are the main location roles we shall be filling.
//We came to Dave knowing who we are filming with and knowing dates.
Because the media group we are working on have been arranging this project since september, they have already finished the pre production and expect to be ready to film in february.
Dave has advised us to find out when the meetings are with their project tutor and to attend 1-2 a month, so we can include ourselves into the production team.
//There were two meetings before christmas.
In the first meeting the script we were given was for a film about a nuclear evacuation, with the main characters escaping through the woods. This script had a lot of potential for foley and atmospherics so we agreed to it.
In the second meeting we were told that the script had changed and the group members had changed. The script was now set in 1-2 locations with little foley but a lot of dialogue instead.
We decided that we would still do this as it would give us some vital experience into the mechanics of recording sound on location and editing clips to the clapper board.