For this exercise, we were thrown into the deep end of audio and visual production. It was interesting to see the script come to life in the setting of a university. We used a boom mic for the first time and the quality of the sound amazed me. It was difficult balancing the sound with all the construction behind where we were filming but that made for a good experience on its own. I had to hold the boom mic as close to the actors as I could, making sure I was not in frame. If we had framed the shot differently, I believe that the sound quality would have been better. We should have lowered the height of the tripod and shot at eye level to the actors, instead of looming above them. As we were all unfamiliar with logging, doing this exercise in a short amount of time and logging correctly was very difficult. We did make a mistake on the log sheet but it was easy to understand our mistake and find the corresponding voice recordings, as we had very few clips to go through. As it was our first time using the boom, we did not know the importance of using a clapper or just using our hands to clap the audio in.

In the editing suites, syncing proved difficult as we had not used a clapper or clapped ourselves. When we merged the clips via premieres settings, there was a very obvious echo. In this case, it was more logical to manually sync the audio, and we achieved better sounding results. This was a very enlightening experience, as we made many mistakes and have learnt what never to do again.