During our ‘in field’ recording experience, we encountered the following problems when it came to the quality of the audio. The first problem was setting the setting the input sensitivity as a lot of the first recordings I took could not be heard over the white noise. In the future I need to be more mindful of the recorder and adjust settings when something is wrong with the playback. Playback was also another issue as I found myself to eager to find sounds rather than check the quality of the ones I already had.

The second problem we encountered was proximity, a lot of our recordings could have been louder and clearer had we positioned ourselves correctly to what we were trying to record. For me I found myself timid to really get up and record things I wanted to, so this is something I’d like to correct the night time I work with sound.

Apart from proximity affecting our recordings we also were interrupted by a lot of unwanted city sounds, or even just us communicating when someone else was recording. To fix this, it was suggested that we, go somewhere remote for our sound effects, and make sure everyone knows that it’s “quiet on set” before the recording begins.