In the audio recording exercise we went over to the RMIT tram stop to build up the sound recordings for the expertise video. We didn’t really have a great understanding of what the exercise was actually about so the idea was ‘observational expertise’. The idea was that the camera was going to record from a balcony (like at building 80) onto the street bellow. As the camera pans across the crowds. Lights, trams and cars bellow the sounds we hear over the video almost replicate our ears in real life as we selectively focus our attention. We took turns in swapping equipment and roles. It was half way though when we realised that maybe we were doing something too hard to achieve for a small project or not quite what the exercise was expecting but id consider doing this type of thing for my project later on in the course. We ended up collect a variety of ambient sounds from the Melbourne Baths area. We got close to cars and trams to record the engines or squeaking. On hearing the sound in the editing suits a few days later most of the stuff we and recorded was very clear and sounded like it had a great amount of depth and heaviness. Id never really used this type of recorder before but it’s a really great tool especially for controlling multiple channels with ease. The Zoom H4n is great but the functionality of the recorder we used (forgot its name) was so easy.