AUDIO

Ambience & Sound Effects

When you are filming you want to be aware of the sounds of the place. If you are outside at a public park maybe you will hear children playing or birds chirping or cars passing by. If you are inside, maybe you will hear the dripping of a coffee machine, or the humming of the refrigerator. You’ll want to capture some of those sounds for ambience as well as mitigate others so the sounds you really want to hear can come through. For example, a tv or music playing in the background can make your job editing the footage extremely hard. You want to record the good sounds while turning off the distracting sounds.

Recording voices for interviews

Almost all cameras have an internal microphone, so when you are filming, your camera will be recording audio from the mic that’s built in. It will pick up the audio, but you will want to use an additional mic to capture good, clear, audible voices, especially for interviews.

Music

Psychologists and audiences agree, the soundtrack of a film dramatically impacts the tone of that story. Finding music to enhance the telling of your story is an important element to the score of your film.