The workshop

I have a new deep respect for sound. I think we can take for granted crisp audio pieces. The exercise was about going out recording an interview and being able to put it together. I think I thought sound would be way easier than filming but I think I was wrong. Even when you do film what makes or breaks a good shot (or at least one where they are speaking) is good audio. It was kinda difficult to work in our group because two of us have very strong opinions on how this should work.

Editing- I think I got the hang on how to create different textures with the different background sounds. It was good to identify how to change the volume of each clip and be able to change the loudness as you needed to create certain effects of transitions. This was super useful in terms of understanding how to put things together in the mix and be able to have full control and understanding how to piece it together.

I thin what I need to practice more is identifying when you need to record in mono or when to use the other mics on the zoom recorder. We had lots of cool ideas as to what was the way to best integrate all of the electronic sounds we had recorded but ended up not using them because we didn’t have enough time.