Working in the edit suites today reminded me of a problem I have with sound editing. Sometimes I feel when dialogue has been re-recorded for a clearer and cleaner sound, it doesn’t match well with the footage. Since the actors are much closer to the microphone when this happens, their dialogue tends to sound too ‘close’ and ‘intimate’ and ends up being a bit jarring when combined with the visuals. This is especially the case with my week 6 mini project. I filmed it in an area where there were mostly hard surfaces so the actors voices’ echoed while performing.  We decided to do a sound-only take at the end of filming so the lines could be heard more clearly. However whilst I was editing, I found the cleaner the sound, the weirder it was to both listen to and look at. Something about it was disorienting and threw me off; I didn’t like it. In the end, I scrapped the idea of inserting the clean sounds and just went with the dialogue they had recorded while performing.

I am not sure how this is done in the industry, and I actually don’t notice sound editing much. I take note of sound effects and music of course, but not really the way dialogue has been edited, if it has at all. I guess another problem is that I don’t know how to work the boom mic and sound device. If I had known how to do that, maybe I wouldn’t have encountered this sound editing problem. It also just occurred to me that we have minimal discussion about sound editing when we review scenes in class. I think this would be quite interesting look into.