8 – A VERY BUMPY ROAD INDEED

Remember how grand and impressively average our Day 1 shoot was with Terri, well we’ve encountered more and more frustrations this Day 2 shoot. We had planned our equipment to help counter the problems we faced on Day 1, but our choice to record via an external mic to get cleaner audio within the store ended up a bust. Our wireless lapel ended up not working at all on the shoot day, and since it was a Sunday we couldn’t just drop by the techs to swap for a new mic. So we had to free hand record directly into our Zoom hand recorder, which worked, but was too sensitive and picks up way too much extra noise for our liking. The acoustics of the store don’t provide much of a buffer against the audio bounce and Terri wasn’t the type to talker that could direct her speech very well into one direction. However, we didn’t let this deter us from getting more b-roll footage, and trying to get as much as we could from the limited time we had on the day of the shoot. At this point we have gone through so many technical difficulties that I think we will all come out as seasoned troubleshooters eventually.

But hey if anyone knows what went wrong with our wireless lapel, give us a message and explain to me how to fix it, because it was very frustrating to not have what we planned play out. I guess we gotta just go things the basic way from now on. Having too much new tech probably left us open to problems that should have been avoidable. Next time I think we’ll just go back to our basic set-up and if any problems arise we should be able to fix them.