Studio Production Unit- Body Image VT Shoot

Today I attended a shoot for the Body Image VT which will be shown as part of the studio production unit. My job on this particular shoot would involve me mostly operating the sound equipment, which I had booked yesterday. The kit I took included.

• Sound Kit- Rode Mic, XLR Cable, Gun handle, boom pole
• Zoom Recorder
• Radio Mics.

These pieces of equipment were hired out specifically due to the fact that we would be filming indoors and we wanted to get as many different sources of sound as possible so that we could provide our editors with lots of alternatives to choose from.

Some problems I came across which I really had no control over involved background sound from other people in the UCA building (where we were recording) and the sound of an elevator which made the pipes in the building's ceilings vibrate whenever it was in use.

We wouldn't have usually had a problem with this, but the sound was really loud at certain points, especially when the contributor was trying to speak in an interview with the radio mics.

I am hoping that this is something myself and mike can work on in editing.

Another problem I came across which I did my best to rectify was the fact that the Zoom I had hired out seemed to be producing some strange sounds whenever the XLR inputs were in use. However, I fixed this problem by strapping the Zoom recorder to the boom pole with a lot of duct-tape and recording sound directly to the Zoom itself. This seemed to eliminate the problem, but wasn't too easy to use.

Another problem was that I got arm ache after a while, but this is pretty much part of the territory.