Women Climb Diary Entry 17th of November to 24th of November

17th of November

Today we started are filming our first scenes which was at the house location. The first scene we began to film was the bedroom scene that involved the actor daydreaming about running, My job was to capture the ambiance during this sequence to make the scene have a realistic feel and to make make the scene boring and flat. After a few tries this worked perfectly however it was also a challenge as there where children present downstairs in the house, this caused me to be very informative with Nico (Director) about if we picked up any noises from downstairs as to make sure the sound was of good quality and not disrupted by outside sounds. we then moved to the kitchen scene where i was needed to capture the sound of running water and washing up, at first i thought that the sound i was recording was very overpowering and would not be of good quality when used to after so to fix this i informed Nico that i would need to check the audio levels and move to boom mic further away as correct this. We finished this scene and moved on to the last scene which was the front room scene, one of the objects that would create a lot of sound was the hoover that Nico wanted to use in the scene to have some action and movement. As to not let the sound be completely ruined by this i moved back as adjusted the sound levels on the field recorder so the sound would be at the correct level of sound and would be intact.

After recording that day i decided to research more tips on how to improve my skills, i found a website that has a short list that showed me the basics on what to do to getting better sound and having an easier experience ( https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/4-simple-tips-for-recording-high-quality-audio/).  I learnt that you can have complete control over the sounds that you pick up and the environments you work in. by using this information provided by this list i can better improve in the future to help with contamination with the audio and to get the correct ambiences. I also learnt
to get the best audio you need the best equipment, the collages equipment was very usefull and some of the best you can buy. This made me realise that when i record sound in the future i will need to buy and obtain good sound equipment for the job.



22nd of November

Today we all got the crew together and went to Dovestones Reservoir  to film the next few scenes of the montage which was the running and overtaking scenes. When we arrived Conor gave me the job of recording ambiance for the film so i gathered my equipment and walked of to a location far from the car-park and higher up away from everyone as to not capture natural noises. When i reached my location i calibrated my field recorder and began recording the ambiance unfortunately i soon realized there was a background noise behind the ambiance so i began looking through the possible problems or that the field recorder had malfunctioned. After much thinking and checking i discovered it was a massive nearby waterfall that was causing the problem so i walked back to the group to help out and inform Conor and Nico of the problem. As the far away running scenes didn't need sounds i helped out whenever it was necessary. As we got further into Dovestones i was able to get a much better and clearer recording of the ambiance that we needed without the background noise. After i had recorded my 2 minutes of ambiance we packed up and returned to the car to finish up filming and return to collage.

24th of November

Today we went to Debdale Park to finish of the recording of the project which was the biking scenes. We began by finding a very secluded park of the park that would help with the sound recorded and that no people would spoil the shots. When recording the first bike scenes i worked with Nico to get the correct sound for that scene and made sure the audio was not contaminated by outside noises and the sounds we might create because of the locations we had to be to get the shots we needed. As we progressed around the park we unfortunately had interruptions a few times by a certain group of people, we where patient and continued on with the recordings but this became annoying to us but the only way to fix this was to continue with the filming. after we had walked around the park and completed all are recording and audio we went back to the car to return to collage so we could begin editing and reviewing the audio.