//The film crew gave us a short sample clip as a taster to start recording foley with, so we discussed with Dave how we were approaching recording.
We decided that our best aim would be to create a full edit of the clip to present to the media team so they could hear how their work would come out at the finished product.
This was the last meeting we had with Dave, so we made sure we were ready to deal with the full project before it was too late.
//This meeting basically was just us reporting that the problems we had have been solved, all of the audio had been handed over, checked, and was now in the hands of the media team to synchronise to video while we prepared for their picture lock.
//After the problems which arose with the workflow we were invited to a meeting with the media group and Phil, their tutor, to discuss how we were going to progress. Lee sat in with this meeting and reviewed the audio as the group thought that what we had given them was too quiet to sync up to the clapperboard.
Lee was able to confirm that our audio was fine, and that the only way we could help would be to normalise the audio to make the clapper’s peak a little higher for them, but other than that we were not the problem.
At the end of this meeting we were told that we were not needed to attend another unless anymore problems needed solving.
//It was at this point where we discovered that the workflow was wrong and that we weren’t meant to be synchronising the audio tracks to the picture ourselves.
In this meeting Dave taught us that we need to give all of the audio to the media group, and then taught us that they would return a picture lock to us with an .AAF file or .OMF file, which we could then import into protools to edit the sounds of the dialogue after the media team were finished with their editing.
After learning this it did make a lot more sense to edit the video first otherwise we could have been syncing the audio to all of the takes that wouldn’t have been used.
//This meeting was delayed by a week as the filming days fell onto the usual days of our meetings.
After we had finished filming we came back to dave to report on what had happened on the set, all of the good points and bad points, before discussing our next steps. It was in this meeting that we had a misunderstanding with the workflow, leading us to believe that it was our responsibility to sync the dialogue to picture.
We were also able to discuss the possibility of constructing our atmos tracks while the film crew were busy with editing the film because there wouldn’t have been much else for us to do otherwise.