Saturday, February 18, 2012

3 Items of Necessary Sound Equipment

By Aaron B. Baker


Making sure you have all of the critical tools that you need to create a feature film can be be extremely complicated. Ensuring that everything blends with to create the perfect film that you are envisioning is never easy, but spending some time to ensure that everything is proper before you begin recording your film is vital. Without good sound, you are likely to lose a large number of people who would make up your potential audience. This may often cause a great film to find yourself largely ignored and a filmmaker extremely frustrated.

A piece of equipment is going to be a microphone. This can be something that should be looked at far well before actually shooting any of the scenes to be able to be certain you are getting the best sound possible. Each microphone will have a different range that it is most effective. Your key to having good sound from are all knowing the proper range for the microphone that you are using. Prefer a microphone that records close up, then you need to ensure you have proper placement, without getting so close that you will be interrupting the filming of the scene. A microphone dropping to the scene during recording can ruin footage and build additional headaches in the future.

Microphone cables will be your second critical component. This should be properly installed or you will find that after spending a day shooting a scene which you love, you have no sound to use. Nothing is worse than finding out you've wasted an entire day filming as the microphone cables were not properly connected. An occasion check is essential to ensure that these are connected. Aside from just ensuring the cables are connected, you should ensure you pick up cables which might be a good quality. Poor quality cables can cause problems when you are trying to record the sound and may add interference into the recording. Being mindful to avoid interference as well as ensure proper connection will go a long way towards ensuring that sound is properly recorded.

A final step is looking at the sound software that you've. Using good quality sound editing software you possibly can make huge changes to the recording because you will have the flexibility to easily change the order of speech and sounds. You can even work to adjust the sound levels for any scene to adjust for ambient noises also. You might discover that while you were recording there was clearly an annoying siren in the background that is distracting from the scene, having additional ambient sound footage choosing able to replace the siren, which will help you to save the footage entirely.

As you can tell, each of these three components is essential to create the overall feeling for a movie. A feature film which has poor sound will likely lose the attention of the audience very quickly. Making the effort to really pull together the proper sound equipment is a great step towards ensuring the success of your movie. Taking pride inside the sound will show as folks are viewing your movie, and gives you a great opportunity to have fun with different sound scenarios to find out what really works best for the consumer feature film that you are creating. Understanding how to make the changes and produce the product quality results will be a key benefit that will you well for all films you create.




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