21/11/19 – For the dialog recording we had to record an interview with a music artist, asking them questions whilst focusing on sound as well as picture quality. This involved checking levels on mics and making sure that they were positioned correctly with the aim of creating a clean and high quality sound. For this interview we used the equipment as follows; x2 Sennheiser Shotgun Microphones, a Roland R-44. For this assignment, a member of our group, George Fitton, played the role of interviewer for, Sam Clynch – the guitarist for the grunge band “Character Development”. We decided to split the work load evenly between all members of the group, therefore, I was in control of the audio recording which, involved changing gain and volume levels ensuring that the sound didn’t clip, manoeuvring the microphones depending on the movements of the interviewer and interviewee as well as monitoring background noise. Jack was in charge of the camera which included making sure both the interviewer and interviewee were in shot. Finally, George Fitton was the interviewer. This involved writing and asking the questions he wanted Sam to answer. In order to get the least background noise and chatter, we decided to film this interview in the recording studio of the Creative Edge building. Not only did this have little interference in terms of background chatter, but it also had low reverb levels meaning that there was limited reflection of the walls which could in turn lead into poorer sound quality.
After this, we then exported both the audio from the Roland R-44 and the camera into a pro tools project and synched up both microphones to the picture. This was relatively straight forward, however, one microphone had recorded the interview at a slighter louder rate. This meant that the interviewer sounded louder than the interviewee. We then corrected this in the editing stage by lowering the gain level of Georges mic.
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