After Christmas I was assigned a role as Location Sound by our tutor, Roddy to help the TVP complete their project. Travelling was not an issue as I live near Felixstowe, where Megan the Director lives. The Documentary was based on the beach down by the Felixstowe pier where we filmed all the footage.
My role in this documentary was to record the sound of the waves hitting against the shore and the sound of the arcade games in the amusment centres, using a boom pole and mic and a zoom H4N kit. I needed to put the windshield onto the boom mic as I was recording sound outside on the beach, where it was very windy. The windshield helped me block out the wind hitting the microphone as it was very sensitive and made loads of muffling noise, blocking out the sound of the waves. To minimise the muffling wind noise, I had to lower the recording level to get nice clear sound which was then boosted during post-production. There was extreme weather conditions on the day of the shoot, which affected us whilst we were shooting but we worked around it. To get from the amusement centres to the people who were fishing, we had Megan's car which was useful as we did not have to carry our heavy kit from one side of Town to the other. As we are students, we bought batteries from Poundland but the result of buying cheap batteries ended up changing them every so often.
Next time I go out on a location shoot doing sound, then I would check the weather forecast and let the Director know that there will be bad weather conditions and if they would like to change the date to a more suitable day. As the wind can disrupt the recording of the sound, depending on what you are recording. I would also go and buy some batteries, which are a little bit more expensive and well known so that it would last longer and I wouldn't have to change the batteries every so often.
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