Soundtrack

Audience -

There are many different ways of listening to a soundtrack. Listening on a phone is extremely different to a 5.1 surround sound system. Listening on a phone is a much lower quality, this means you won't hear some subtle sounds as clearly as you would on a surround sound. Earphones are generally a low quality of sound. Earphones are used to hear the sound but as a much lower quality, things such as dialogue will be fine. Its action scenes that require a high quality sound for all the little sound effects and sounds that have been edited. 5.1 Surround Sound is a system that has 6 speakers. They will be placed around the room (behind, in front, left, right, and diagonals) to make it sound like you're in the film. 5.1 is used in theatres and cinemas. 

Preparing for my single camera drama i considered recording my sound in the studio. I did a soundcheck using a boom mic and realised the sound in this room wasn't good at all. This is because the room is rather large. This means the sound has to travel further causing the sound to be week at a poor quality. I could try to prevent this by using the curtain as a wall, this will increase the quality. Outside the studio is the college main centre which is very loud and echoey. I tried a boom mic and a clip mic, the boom mic was a little bit better depending where you directed the microphone. I had trouble using the clip mic, the mic was very faulty as it didn't really pick up sound particularly well. Even when speaking into the mic it would barely pic it up. After realising this, i stuck with using a boom mic and a blimp. (I used headphones to listen back to the audio).  

In my short film, i will be using soundtracks. At the begin i will use relaxing music, then it will drop to a much more aggressive piece of music. This will show anger within the main character. At the beginning of the film the main character will be skating through his neighbour hood over dialogue. There will be subtle music in the background. I am considering having it behind the dialogue, but I'm not sure if thats what i want. I'll either have it fade out over dialogue and then fade back in once the dialogue has finished.