First Day of Recording Sound Dub

04/11/19 – Today  was  the  first  day  of  recording. We  aimed  to  recreate  the  following sounds; A fuse burning, a lighter strike and footsteps on sand. I started by shaking a fizzy drink vigorously. I then slowly removed the cap of the bottle and used the Sennheiser Mini Boom Mic to record the noise made. This is because this is a shotgun microphone meaning that it is highly directional and so is ideal for recording our clips. The problem with this recording, however, is that we also could not avoid recording the noise of the bottle cap being removed or the slight talking being picked up at the end of the recording. To combat this, I have decided to cut out the first few seconds of the recording in which the cap of the bottle is removed and the end portion of the clip. I also incorporated a fade at both the start and end of the clip, resulting in the sound of a fuse burning. I then decided to record the noise for the lighter strike by simply recording the sound of a Clipper lighter striking in time with the visual scene. Lastly, I recorded a different takes of walking on the sand at Edge Hill’s Beach. This would recreate the noise of the characters walking on sand. The problems faced when recording this, however, was the fact that the female XLR to ¼ inch cable attaching the microphone to the field recorder was too short limiting the distance I could walk and thus steps I could record. To combat this I tried getting someone to walk alongside me whilst recording. However, this presented another issue in that it was also recording footsteps from the person recording. Finally, I decided that I was going to use the few steps I had and edit them together in pro tools in order to match the steps taken in the scene.