Meetings with Dave and with the Media Team
//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.