Unlike the first day of shooting, this day would be entirely based on key dialogue based scenes. One of the initial problems we encountered before the shoot was the fact that the clip radio microphones were all booked out well in advanced meaning that we would need to improvise for this day. Given the fact however that the characters doing the said dialogue were constantly moving we came to the conclusion that shooting a direct shotgun microphone like the Sennheiser wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. In the end we ended up using two of these microphones with the idea that Ed and me would both track one of the actors each whilst making sure we didn’t cross signal pathways (as that would created muffled recordings).

This seemed to work well with the recordings as we had two clear dialogue recordings that we could easily separate without little spill over, meaning we could deal with each characters dialogue track separately.

We would also again take into consideration some of the advice given by the guest lecturers including factoring in how to deal with the relationship between the director and us as the sound recordists. For example, ensuring that we never overstepped our boundary by telling everyone to stop doing what they were doing so we could record atmosphere or various foliage, we would do this before and after recording shots.