Evaluation

My group consisted of me (Edd Headen),Harry Plunkett, Casey Brown and Jack Neale. For this task we had to record me and jack do a fake news report from a script. This was all to analyse the sound, we had to film in three different locations, the first was an empty classroom, then outside in the car park and the last was in a busy corridor. In the classroom we found one of the main problems this was that the computers where on and left a slight buzzing while filming, we also had this problem with the lights as they are fluorescent and left another buzz on the recording. In the car park there was multiple problems we discovered, the most prominent of these problems was the wind, as it constantly kept blowing the microphone so we had some audio distortion. Other problems that we found was that cars kept driving around us and making a ridiculous amount of background music, there was also buzzing here as well, we think that this was the generators near by. The last location was the busy corridor, there was so many audio problems with this take as there was people walking past it was almost impossible to hear us talking as people where walking around almost shouting.

The second time we went out filming we tried to improve every shot we did in the first place. First of all we tried making the corridor shit better, we still used to personal microphone because it was best suited for this location, this time we where lucky because the corridor wasn't busy at all and there was only a few people in there including us. The overall sound difference was much better as there wasn't a ridiculous amount of background noise so it was much better than our first try. Next we filmed the outdoor scene in the car park again, we used a shotgun mic again because the personal microphone wouldn't work outside, with all the wind.  This time it was much better because there was nobody around and cars were not interrupting us, like they did in the last take. the all round quality of the footage i far superior to the last one we shot. And finally we shot the classroom scene, this was the only audio that we thought was fine the first time, but we recorded it again to get any improvements possible, we still used the personal mic's because there was nothing wrong with the first shot.

We worked well as a team because we see each other everyday and are abe to talk about the work, we also all had assigned roles for example me and jack were presenters, Harry was sound man, and Casey was the cameraman. we are all good friends so we are accustomed to talking to each other so we said what we wanted. Overall i'd say the second set of filming was better as it had improvements from the first recording.