Andrei Allen UCA Broadcast Media Blog

Scene 1

Tech problem

Because i didn't check the mic before hand and just assumed that all headsets work the same with most smart phones, the mic i was using for phillips recording unfortunately didn't record successfully, it kept on muting while recording, giving me useless audio to work with, and i found out this the hard way when it came to post production.

Luckily for me however, because Shaun was so close to Phillip and also the way how i placed the mic on Shauns clothing (having it dangle freely where its headphones so the audience wouldn't take notice) i manage to get a decent recording from Phillip anyways.

For the first scene audio, it was fairly easy to do, i synced Shauns audio and also one of the bullies audio to the footage, once i had done that i lowered the audio using the mixer in adobe premiere where you can control the levels of all of the audio tracks.

Scene 2

shop footage sound

For the shop footage what i'd done was used some of the other scene take sounds to build upon the sound for the second scene, i also used the footage from the 5th take as it was longer, the footage in the second scene on the laptop is really the 5th take but because its a small screen and in the same location it should seem like its a continuation of the previous footage.

Once i had finished compiling the audio together to build the scene. i then played it back through pair of sennheiser hd203 headphones and put my hands free mic from my phone between it and recorded the audio using my phone. I then sent the file from my phone to my laptop and imported it into the project and synced it on the sequence with the laptop footage.

I done this so that to the audience viewing the footage, it would sound like the audio is coming out of the laptop. I could of used the hi pass filter but i would be loosing to much of my lower end frequencies and the audio would sound to unnatural for the scene; also it would be extra unnecessary work.

Bedroom sound

Even tho i recorded additional audio, like the foot step and the door slamming and pen pot slapping, in the end i didn't need to use all of the audio because what my camera mic had picked up was good enough, after the gain being adjusted to make the audio sound louder it was good to use.

For phillips moms voice, whilst recording i did not realise that there were mobile devices close by, and this affected the quality of the sound recording, however i managed to cover this up by lowering the voice of phillips mom and applying a high pass filter to her voice only focusing on the hi pitch of her voice, damping out the signal interference with the bedroom sound and also the laptop.

Overall thoughts

The sound editing went fairly well, however if i could re-record some of the audio again i would record phillips moms voice over because of the signal interference.