Hey guys,
I recently finished shooting my first feature film, a sci-fi musical set in the 50's. I firstly have to thank this board for many of the suggestions and information presented here. We wound up using the Oktava w/hyper for our interiors and the Rode NTG-2 for all of our exteriors and some interiors that we had in large rooms where talent would be a bit further from the mic and the walls. We ran the microphones through a 4 channel yamaha mixer into the M-Audio microtrack. We used an on set slate to synch up the audio in post, and the results have come out pretty good. I'm noticing some interesting things now that I'm really listening to the sound, so I thought I'd post a clip for all of you to check out.
http://www.fleanation.com/Sc5Sample.wav
This was recorded outside at night, in the middle of a field. There was a building roughly 50 feet behind the actors, and another building maybe 150 feet to the left of the actors. The NTG-2 was placed directly above the actor standing in the middle's head, roughly a foot and a half away. What I noticed about a lot of the audio in this scene is that the voices sound pretty clear when played through my monitors (although the edit bay they're currently in is NOT properly balanced yet, working on that to prepare for our mix.) When I put on headphones, I notice a bit more of the background noice, there was a road about 300 feet behind the actors, and another one 500 feet to their left. Also, there's obviously some crickets chirping, not much we can do about that at night around here. I can also feintly hear the power generator we had set up, albeit very softly.
I'd like to hear what some of you guys think about this audio clip. Maybe some suggestions from the experts around here on how we can improve on it, etc.
-Steve
I recently finished shooting my first feature film, a sci-fi musical set in the 50's. I firstly have to thank this board for many of the suggestions and information presented here. We wound up using the Oktava w/hyper for our interiors and the Rode NTG-2 for all of our exteriors and some interiors that we had in large rooms where talent would be a bit further from the mic and the walls. We ran the microphones through a 4 channel yamaha mixer into the M-Audio microtrack. We used an on set slate to synch up the audio in post, and the results have come out pretty good. I'm noticing some interesting things now that I'm really listening to the sound, so I thought I'd post a clip for all of you to check out.
http://www.fleanation.com/Sc5Sample.wav
This was recorded outside at night, in the middle of a field. There was a building roughly 50 feet behind the actors, and another building maybe 150 feet to the left of the actors. The NTG-2 was placed directly above the actor standing in the middle's head, roughly a foot and a half away. What I noticed about a lot of the audio in this scene is that the voices sound pretty clear when played through my monitors (although the edit bay they're currently in is NOT properly balanced yet, working on that to prepare for our mix.) When I put on headphones, I notice a bit more of the background noice, there was a road about 300 feet behind the actors, and another one 500 feet to their left. Also, there's obviously some crickets chirping, not much we can do about that at night around here. I can also feintly hear the power generator we had set up, albeit very softly.
I'd like to hear what some of you guys think about this audio clip. Maybe some suggestions from the experts around here on how we can improve on it, etc.
-Steve
