After multiple months of research and lectures, it had finally came time to be on set recording. Me and Ed Richardson decided it would be beneficial to meet up a day before hand so that we could test the equipment with the set up that we’d be running, that being 2 wireless radio microphones and a Sennheiser boom microphone however after speaking with our director we discovered we’d not be getting a dialouge on that given day. We still used the time to get aquatinted with the 633 field recording device however.

For our first day of recording we would be heading to a local forest in Lincoln where we would be tracks scenes that mainly aimed to tie everything together, for this reason we would only be making use of the Sennheiser MKE3000 due to its direct nature when used as a boom microphone. This was was quite a simple shoot, with us mainly tracking footsteps and the general atmosphere, we did however take the advice of Jez Riley French and shoot as much as we possibly could within the time frame. This included recording atmosphere of each location between camera set up. This will prove to be quite useful when it comes to the final edit as we’ll be able to bed multiple slates over a consistent layer of atmosphere.

We ended up capturing clear and direct audio. As we went out earlier in the week to do a location check we were able to distinguish some of the issue with recording here and how to deal with them. This included hearing out for planes before shots and checking pathways before hitting record to ensure no shots were disrupted audio wise.