This meeting was just specifically for Me, Sam and Dan to discuss what roles we would take on and the techniques we would need to research before we start shooting our film.
Location Sound
As there will be three of us on set, we established the roles that needed to be undertaken and who would do them. These roles are:
>Boom Operator who concentrates on capturing the dialogue with a boom microphone and applies a Lavalier Microphone when necessary.
>Mixer who’s job it is to control the levels recorded into the mixer, making sure that it doesn’t clip or isn’t too quiet. Checks and gets rid of sound sources that might interfere with the recorded dialogue track.
>Ambient and Wild track recordist. We decided to make this a role as from previous experience, we found it crucial that the connection between Ambient/Wild track and Dialogue should be similar. This creates a smooth and coherent relationship between dialogue and sound design in the post-production stage of the film.
As the shoot will be limited to just 3-5 days, we figured it would be fitting to allow each person to take turns in taken on these roles for location sound to gain experience within the field.
Post-Production
We discussed what jobs would need doing and what we wanted to do for when it came to post-production. Sam expressed that he would like to concentrate on editing Dialogue and Music track. Me and Dan decided that we would switch the recording and mixing process of Foley and Sound FX. Dan would record and produce the Foley and I would mix it and I would record and produce the Sound FX and Dan would mix it.
As a whole, we felt this meeting was useful as it established what was need to be researched and who was doing what. We felt like we had divided the job roles fairly allowing nobody too have too much or to little involvement in the project.