Sound Concerns

Yesterday in class, Gabriel brought up a great point that sound is going to be really difficult for this project. I do not think he is wrong. We do not have professional cameras or equipments so when we film with our phone outside it may be hard to hear the dialogue and there will definitely be a lot of natural sounds. This would make our audio sound very poor which is something we do not want to do.

An idea of something we can utilize is an attachable lavalier microphone that will be plugged into the phone that we use to film. On Amazon, I found one that costed $11.88. I wouldn't mind paying for this all on my own because I may use this for future projects anyways. Using this microphone will allow the audio to be focused in on the dialogue and less focused on the natural sounds that are going on in the background. 

Another option that we may use is recording the audio is as voice over and then putting synching that with what is being filmed. This may sound a little clearer but this will definitely take more time. We would have to record the voice overs separate from filming in person which would take more time. It will probably be difficult to edit the footage because we will have to synch the footage. 

We will definitely have to do some strategies similar to a voice over by creating some foley sounds. For example, the phone being picked up will probably be recorded along with kicking the basketball and more. There will definitely be some aspects of having to synch audio to our filming in one way or another. 

I don't know right now exactly which strategy we may use but it is always good to have options. I plan on also talking to my teacher and other groups to figure out what they did to combat this issue.