The 8 Tasks, Task 1 Chosen Clip

I have chosen to do the second Tom and Jerry clip, from the second 2 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Dx7g4qcRw

Preparing to work with sound effects

1) Sound effect are used in film and television productions because the heighten certain sound that might not be herd other wise.

2) The advantages of sound effects are that is can make things believable. Sound effect add to the overall production such as hitting, gun shots and explosion making the sound stand out and more noticeable. the can also make certain part of film memorable such as the light-sabers from Star Wars.

3) The disadvantages to sound effects are that thy can be over done distracting from what is happening onscreen.

4) A foley artist is responsible for the reproduction of everyday sound, they can reproduce sound such as footsteps, glass breaking and squeaky doors.

Recording SFX

1) Footsteps, two foley artist stamping their feet on a marble slab.

2) Rain, by pouring dried rice onto tin foil

3) Punching, is make by someone wearing a leather glove hitting a slab of meat

4) bones braking, cutting a frozen lettuce.

Revised Equipment List

For the second filming we decided to change the mics that we used going from boom mics to tie mics so the presenters could be herd no matter if there was any other background noise, we will be using the same type of camera and tripod.

Review first footage

The sound in the footage that we recorded was not that good for most of the scenes as there was wind noise in the out side shots and people talking which made it difficult to hear the presenters, in the second inside scenes there was people talking through out and you couldn't hear the presenters at all. The only scene that you could hear the presenters was the first inside as we were in a quite room with no other noise.

Evaluation

We started be filming in three different locations to look at sound recording in three different conditions inside quiet, outside and inside noisy. The inside quiet was good as there was no background noise to distract from the presenters. The outside was not so good as there was wind and people make noise. And the inside noisy was bad as we couldn't hear what the presenters were saying all we could hear were people taking in the background. after looking at or footage we decided to make changes like using tie mics  to be able to hear the presenters and not other people doing this made it easier for the presenters and myself as the camera operator as I did have to hold a boom and work the camera at the same time, it also cut down the noise form the wind on the outside shot being able to hear the presenters. We also move the position of the presents to avoid people walking and talking so that the mics didn't pick them up.
As a group we worked well together as we have worked on other project together and know how to work with each other.

Analyzing second footage

After watching the footage back we found that using tie mics the sound quality is better as you cant pick up that much background noise and can still hear the presenters clearly.