I immediately noticed the set dressing in the dining room area. We had been asked to hand in spare cereal boxes for the set, though I had no idea how these were to be implemented. As it turns out, the cereal boxes were cut up and stuck to the walls like decorations. This wasn't quite as creative as I would have imagined, simply sticking the faces on the wall, but the rest seemed to be happy with it.
Despite my efforts, I was encouraged to still use the Tascam by Callum and Jason. It almost felt selfish on the cameraman's part, telling me that they didn't want to put up with the wires if I connected the microphone to the camera, despite it really being no problem at all. After some argument, I finally gave in and used the Tascam despite knowing the problems it will ultimately cause. Luckily I had done some research on how to use the Tascam the night before, though I still wasn't exactly proficient with it.
The filming of the bedroom scene went very smoothly. I was quite surprised at how professional the actors were, though I felt like some of the line delivery was quite flat in some places. The Director, Will, seemed happy, however, so I didn't question it. Thankfully, the sound quality was good, however I feel I might have been holding the camera a little too far away for some shots due to having to keep out of Jason's way. This meant that I was behind Jason a lot of the time due to the cramped space, making the argument for my having to use the Tascam invalid, which annoyed me even more. I thought the sound was good enough, however, and the only retakes we needed were for when a police siren could be heard from the passing traffic (which happened a worrying amount of times).
The dining room scenes produced more of an echo which I had already identified as a problem. However, I was able to nullify the echo by holding the boom microphone closer to the actors when they speak. The only other sound, which I was not able to do much about, was the creaking floor and chairs. To try and tackle this, I asked the actors to only make sudden movements when required. This worked to an extent, however I didn't want the actors to appear immobile.
Although these scenes took several hours, there were little to no retakes apart from when fixing some technical issues. We actually finished much earlier than expected, showing that we were efficient enough in our filming process. I did thankfully get the hang of the Tascam equipment and was able to use it more comfortably by the end of the day.
Once I'd got home, I immediately started labelling the camera footage and the sound which were given to me by Aimee, who had been digitising the footage throughout the day. This was done so that I could match up the camera shots to the sound files for editing purposes. However, the cameraman had chosen not to still record from the camera's internal microphone, meaning I could not hear the sound from the video files to match the sound files up with. This made the process much more difficult as I had to look at each individual video file and watch the actor's every single move, as well as mouth movements, in order to tell which sound file matched up to whichever video file. To avoid this in the future, I will ask the cameraman to record from the camera's internal microphone as well as my own recording to make this process much easier.
Here are screenshots taken of some of the video and sound files fully labelled:
This process will take place after every production day.
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