REFLECTION: December 7th, 2009

"today" we went to the field to film sounds for the comic book soundtrack. we actually encountered quite a lot of problems today because of the equipment and other things...

FIRSTLY, we borrowed one of the small Sony (i think it's Sony) cameras that don't have the microphone jacks, except we didn't know that at first and we went all the way back up to get the mic and the headphones only to find out that it's not supported in the camera when we went back down to start filming. without the shotgun microphone, we need to use the built-in microphone to film the sound. this is a problem because the whole purpose of filming is to get the sound and if we use the built-in mics we can't really get good sound quality and therefore it won't really help. so we had to find out ways to get the camera microphone as close to the sound as possible, which was quite hard because we want the video to be nice enough to be used for the documentary too. i was the camera person (as usual) and Nadia and Lea did the sounds (as usual) and Vikki is kind of the sound checking person who checks whether the sound is okay. in the end we got quite a lot of artistic shots that were quite pretty, however the sound kind of sucks because the microphone simply isn't as good and it captures all the useless sound surrounding us as well as the useful sound that we were creating.

SECONDLY, Nadia and Lea rewound the tape and I personally hate it when people rewind because I log everything and the time code gets messed up when you rewind and you have to press all these extra buttons when you capture. But they don't seem to know that they did something wrong and they're just like "well we're just watching the footage..." and I kind of got really annoyed but whatever because they already did it anyway so there's no use yelling at them and I don't really like being the kind of person who yells at her group members a lot (because I did that a lot for the last project...). but if you ever work with me for a film project, just remember this: NEVER. REWIND. THE. TAPE..i don't know but i just don't like people rewinding tapes...

THIRDLY, a lot of sounds don't actually sound right for the comic, so we had to find different ways to do it within the field. but since we're at the field we get more "natural resources" that we could use and therefore it wasn't really much of a problem and we filmed the horse galloping and snapping twigs sounds pretty smoothly after we figured out all our problems.

i think we got pretty much everything we need today and we worked quite effectively (even though it was really cold up at the field and there were some minor arguments). i think we're ready to start capturing and editing next time so we could test out whether the sounds actually work properly or not and have time to refilm if it doesn't work...we're also going to be composing our original music and Vikki and I are doing it together and it's gonna be SO FUN but really hard because neither of us are that good at music (though Vikki's better than me)...

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