Events and developments of the past few weeks

We spent alot of time making sure we had the right materials to hand in for our first presentation. This included, cue sheets, a marker track, skills audit, a work breakdown structure in the form of a gantt chart, a team contract and some initial ideas for foley, including relevant research. The presentation went well overall and also gave us the opportunity to collerate all of our individual work. With the presentation out of the way we were able to begin recording, as all of the preparation towards recording had been completed.

We had cut our film segment into 1 minute 50 seconds sections and split them between the group so that we could all do a part of the cue sheet each which saved alot of time. Having done this, we were able to have a list of all of the different sounds we needed to record with some ideas on how to make them.

We began by buying some bamboo canes which made the perfect sound for the swooshes in the fight scenes. To record them we used a Rode NT2A Mic in one of the booths at uni and simply swung the canes back and forth, trying to get a whole library of swoosh sounds as opposed to the same sound applied to each swoosh on the clip.

The second set of recordings was focusing on breaking wood noises and knuckle/bone crunches. In order to do this we used the same bamboo canes and snapped them a few times. We also snapped some celery and carrots which sounded very realistic and we plan to layer all of these sounds up depending on how they are used. We used two Rode NT2A mics this time facing each other to get a greater stereo image, giving us more room for improvement in the mixing process.

The sound of rain is very crucial in our film segment as almost all of the clip is drenched in rain. Waiting for the weather to turn bad definitely wasn't an option as we simply don't have the time so we decided that we would take a minidisc recorder and record the sound of a shower filling a bath at Paul's house. This gave us a very realistic heavy rain sound which we will not have to loop because we kept the minidisc recording for about 20 minutes. We also took the opportunity to record some splashing sounds in a sink at Paul's house to recreate the sound of footsteps in puddles.