3 Elements of Crucial Sound Gadgets

By Aaron B. Baker


Ensuring that you have all of the critical devices that you need to create a feature film can be very complicated. Ensuring that everything blends with to create the perfect film that you will be envisioning is never easy, but spending some time to ensure that everything is proper before you start recording your film is essential. Without good sound, you'll probably lose a large number of people who will make up your potential audience. This can often cause a great film to wind up largely ignored and a filmmaker extremely frustrated.

The first piece of equipment is going to be a microphone. That is something that should be looked at far before actually shooting any of the scenes so that you can 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 they are all knowing the proper range for your microphone that you are using. If you want a microphone that records close-up, then you need to ensure you have proper placement, without getting so close that you are interrupting the filming in the scene. A microphone dropping in the scene during recording can ruin footage and make additional headaches in the future.

Microphone cables will probably be your second critical component. This must be properly installed or you will find that after spending a day shooting a scene that you just love, you have no sound to work with. Nothing is worse than finding out you might have wasted an entire day filming since the microphone cables were not properly connected. A period check is essential to ensure that they're connected. Aside from just ensuring the cables are connected, you need to ensure you pick up cables that are a good quality. Poor quality cables may cause problems when you are trying to record the sound and will add interference into the recording. Being careful to avoid interference as well as ensure proper connection go a long way towards ensuring that sound is correctly recorded.

A final step looks at the sound software you have. Using good quality sound editing software you possibly can make huge changes to the recording since you will have the flexibility to easily alter the order of speech and sounds. It's also possible to work to adjust the sound levels for the scene to adjust for ambient noises too. You might discover that while you were recording there was clearly an annoying siren in the background which is distracting from the scene, having additional ambient sound footage selecting able to replace the siren, that can assist you to save the footage entirely.

As you have seen, each of these three components is important to create the overall feeling for the movie. A feature film containing poor sound will likely lose the attention of the audience very quickly. Taking the time to really pull together the right sound equipment is a great step towards ensuring the success of your movie. Taking pride in the sound will show as people are viewing your movie, and gives you a great opportunity to have fun with different sound scenarios to discover what really works best for the person feature film that you are creating. Finding out how to make the changes and produce the high quality results will be a key benefit that will you well for all films you create.




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