Last night we had our location shoot for the anniversary scene in our film ‘April’. This was shot in the Hilton Hotel, Lincoln. This overall went really well. My role for this shoot was Audio Recordist as some of the angles the boom had to be held, i could not hold it high enough due to issues with my shoulder injury. We had to overcome problems with loud background noise. This ranged from AC Units to people talking and laughing at the bar etc (which was in the room next door). We easily rectified this by using closer positioning with our boom and getting various takes of the same audio so we have plenty of takes to choose between. This is so we can get the best dialogue sound for the scene. We used the SQN 5 Channel Mixer again along with the Marantz Recorder as we will for the remainder of the shoots. We had to be careful when using the built in limiter on the SQN at the Hilton Hotel. This is due to how loud some of the sounds were which could easily cause the level to limit whilst recording. To Rectify this we simply lowered the gain slightly and went in closer with the boom. Overall it was a successful shoot and I am happy with the clarity of the audio we recorded. This was probably the most challenging scene as we had many extras in shot who were making noise at the same time as the actors were speaking. We have 3 shoots left and then its time for post production to begin.
