Post Seven - Boom Boom Boom Boom
This week has been so hands on - I am knackered but loving getting some practice in all areas!
On Thursday I went into the Foley studio to work on Foley recording and SFX on ProTools with Quentin on the Snapchat Project - this is a horror that was shot in the woods so we bought in dried leaves to make the sound of walking on the forest floor. This project is really interesting for sound design because much like A Quiet Place, the main character is deaf. Trying to make the sound design scary whilst having almost no sound was really tricky but interesting as we attempted to make the lack of sound really uncomfortable for the viewer.
The next shoot I had was on Friday, filming for the Bodyguard Trailer project. We were filming with the police and police vehicles so I got the opportunity to record car skidding sound effects and I got to practice using the boom whilst recording fast action. This shoot continued on Saturday where I spent most of the day recording with a rifle mic, but it was great to mix and adapt to the 5 different locations that we filmed at. As this project is also a trailer this was the first opportunity I had to record Voice Over. This went really well and allowed me to practice using the TASCAM and SQN-Mixer to mix the actors dialogue. This shoot also required recording dialogue in a car, so I wanted to rig a Mercedes with a radio mic in the sun visor, however it was very cramped in there so I'm still waiting to hear back on how well this worked!
On Friday night I also helped out with filming on an American Football Documentary, this was a really cool one for recording SFX such as kicking balls and tackling in training. The circumstances meant that there needed to be 3 cameras, but only one sound recordist, so I found it difficult to move in between cameras to record sound when we were not completely aware of what we would be recording as the training happened spontaneously. This morning the American Football shoot continued, and I was on hand to record an interview with an American scholar. This helped me learn more about using the SQN-Mixer in a relaxed environment where I could really concentrate on mixing between the radio mic and the rifle mic, and I think this went really well!
On Thursday I went into the Foley studio to work on Foley recording and SFX on ProTools with Quentin on the Snapchat Project - this is a horror that was shot in the woods so we bought in dried leaves to make the sound of walking on the forest floor. This project is really interesting for sound design because much like A Quiet Place, the main character is deaf. Trying to make the sound design scary whilst having almost no sound was really tricky but interesting as we attempted to make the lack of sound really uncomfortable for the viewer.
The next shoot I had was on Friday, filming for the Bodyguard Trailer project. We were filming with the police and police vehicles so I got the opportunity to record car skidding sound effects and I got to practice using the boom whilst recording fast action. This shoot continued on Saturday where I spent most of the day recording with a rifle mic, but it was great to mix and adapt to the 5 different locations that we filmed at. As this project is also a trailer this was the first opportunity I had to record Voice Over. This went really well and allowed me to practice using the TASCAM and SQN-Mixer to mix the actors dialogue. This shoot also required recording dialogue in a car, so I wanted to rig a Mercedes with a radio mic in the sun visor, however it was very cramped in there so I'm still waiting to hear back on how well this worked!
Today I am back in the Foley Studio working on my own project, redesigning the sound from a scene of Peaky Blinders. (Depending on how this has gone I will show this to my sound group in our seminar!) I have decided to edit the dialogue out of the clip so that I don't have to deal with any ADR issues, so I now have to realign the SFX that I had already edited in ProTools to this clip - making slow but steady progress!
Back into the Foley studio tomorrow for more preparation for the Showcase Presentation... wish me luck!
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