Evaluation

My group consisted of me, Edd, Jack and Harry. During this task we recorded Jack and Edd reading from a script. We filmed in three different location, the first being a empty classroom, second was outside in the car park and our last location was in a busy corridor.

In the empty classroom we encountered our first problem which was the nearby computers and the florescent lighting, which created a humming sound although we could not here those noises until we started to edit. When we came back to filming the second time we used a personal microphone instead of using the boom, this got rid of the humming sound.

The second location was in the car park, a problem we came across was the wind and a buzzing from a nearby building. We fixed this by moving away from the building and found a spot were the wind wasn't a problem. Because we moved our location, we now had traffic to del with. But that sounded better than the wind and buzzing.

The last location was in a busy corridor, the problems we found were people talking and walking past and also the humming of the florescent lights. To fix these problems we kept control of the people in the public and asked them to be silent for minimal noise. There was no point moving location because all indoor location had florescent lighting, however we used personal microphones to minimize the hum.

Overall I think as a group we were successful at reducing the unwanted noise, we learnt from our mistakes from he first attempt and made the quality better in the second attempt. We changed simple things from the first attempt such as location of microphones, these made a definite improvement.

I think as a group we worked very well, we completed the filming in short time, this enabled use to get and with capturing in the same lessons. We are all friends so our opinions and ideas were easy to get across as we speak to each other daily.

From what I have learnt from this assignment, I will use in future productions so I can get the best possible sound.