Studio shoot (my role on set)

the shoot 

on the shoot I had two roles, to watch the continuity of the set and help out sound recording, I couldnt do continuity of the actors as i had my other role so that was the directors role.

On set the direction of the actors and camera was mostly handled by Billie so when I had a question about scene me and ade would ask Billie,
when it came to where the camera would be we asked the DOP ethan before each shot what the path of the camera would be so we could best position ourselfs.

we had a plan before the first day on how to best use the cameras (technical difficulties caused issues however)

our plan was to put the zoom recorder by the divide of the two rooms and use it omniderectional mics which recorded in stereo and use that as an overall capture of the sound in both rooms.
we were then going to use the tascam with boom mic to recorded the directional more detailed sounds.

issues arose when the tascam and zoom mics died on us, going though batterys and a crazy rate, we also saw in the edit it had split files up making them useless. the zoom had to be used at the start as the boom recorder we managed to use the planned set up towards then end with lots of batteries.


another issue we had was the studio is not a sound stage, the lights made a huge amount of sound and general russling of the room meant the sound was not clear, it was good practice but goes to show why everything but dialogue and atmos and some field recordings is done in Foley.


Overall I did really enjoy recording sound as an activity, I think their is creativity in placment of types of microphones and the opperation of the boom pole, if i was the main sound guy i would of done more in foley to make up for the lack in the first recording.



as for continuity before the shoot i had the plan to map out the entire sets floor plan with props and use a diary to map movements of props during the scene and use photos to set exact placments.

In reality these were not needed. as only two things changed, the chairs and the sheet over the door. so i had to repearly move the chairs back to the possition and refold the sheet,
I took photos to make sure the looked the same, I also taped the floor where the chairs would be when out and put away.

over continity was pretty easy but i imagine if there was more elements to be in control of it could be difficult.




my overall opionon of the shoot was mixed feelings, I felt the camera crew did very well but there was a confusion on who was in charge over all of the shoot, I also feel like there was misscumincation between directors and camera, but for my role I feel I did the best i could with the technical equipment errors which happened.