Sound is one of the most important aspects of making a film and is normally overlooked during productions, to get some practice at using the sound equipment and to test our creativity we were set a task to go out around the campus and Hartlepool to record some sounds that we would then playback as sound effects and have the rest of the course guess what they were. We split off into groups and used the Canon camera as our recording equipment with an external microphone which we plug in to capture our audio, to make sure we all got some experience with the equipment we rotated job roles every now and then, we would have one person holding the camera, one person holding the microphone, one person listening with headphones on to the sound and another creating the sound. We had equal turns in the job roles and each role was interesting. We didn't want to be completely average so we tried to search for sound effects that were too obvious or common so we experimented with the sounds in a phone box, the sound of a pen rolling off a table onto the floor and even a mobile phone vibrating on a table. We weren't 100% sure what the quality of the sound was until we played them back for the course but we were quite proud and impressed with the quality once we heard it, it was nice and clear with the audio not too loud or not too quite.
It was a great exercise at getting used to the sound and camera equipment and even helpful at showing how difficult it can be to get great quality sound.
- Mikey Barker
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