Soundtrack sheet 2

When working on a sound track you would sit down with the director and main production crew, such as the editor.
You would met up with the director before they finish filming so they can get across what atmosphere they want the audience to be placed in and how they want, in sound terms, to focus on. Also you would the director for spotting which is when you talking about each shot and make notes ready for lock cut. Other people you will have to talk to would be the editor or editors and sound recorders, When the editor has picture locked the film, which means all the filming is done and now it cant be changed, to probably look over the final footage and think about how the sound would be with the images. Meeting with the sound recorders would to be productive and playing around with sound to give away to get across the sound effects you and the director are going for.


For my single camera drama I wanted sounds such as the heavy door in the office scene is closing, I wanted is because it was an old wooden door and its closed before the gun shot. On location I recorded the scene with the actor saying dialogue then closing the door behind him, I then went back and just recorded the sound of the door being closed as hard as possible, to get a more natural sound.

I also needed some 'natural' sound such as the weather, like the wind also birds and church bell's playing in the background. For the natural sound I recorded the outside locations with the actors, then went back and just recorded the location without anyone there, I also added in ADR and SFX sound of the weather and birds. A problem with this was because I went back and record the location alone the dialogue was hard to pick up so in the editing process I had the actors come back and record their dialogue in a studio.


Locations

Church - when recording it had a lot of echo so when the character was walking into the church and up to the window the foot steps were a lot louder than normal, with this I had to fix it in editing, also in the office scene because it was a back department in the church it was again very echoy so I had to get close with shots and microphone. For sound effects I used a sound effect website which with copyright laws are free to use. It was freesound.org this has a number of versions of sounds so I had a lot to pick from and in final cut I could change the ditch in case it wasn't what I was looking for but close enough. With the audio recording on the day I used road stereomic for the DSR sound camera's.

The only problem with filming and recording the sound on location was the church is open to the public so we had groups of people in the background rather walking in shot or talking which from time to time came out louder due to the microphone being closer to them than the actors where. I knew in my film I didn't want to use any licensed music like a single so I didn't have to worry about copyright law however when it came to looking for sites or ways to record sound effects like a gun shot or a clock I looked for a copyright law site that allows the public to put up sound files of lots of different things that came be used in projects as long as you say where you got the sound from.