Sync Sound

During one of our production skills seminars we learnt about sync sound, the way in which to achieve clean sync sound and what mic to use in which situation. i found this an extremely helpful seminar as it wouldn't just help with documentary but it would be something we could continue with throughout the course. Unfortunately with our documentary we won't be using any sync audio, we only plan on using a shotgun mic as nothing needs to be synced to video. However, i did learn ways of attaching solar microphones to subjects, methods of using electrical and surgical tape to hide it in costumes which is a really helpful thing to learn. we also learnt how to attach the mic straight to the camera so that it syncs straight up without having to line it all up together in post it just does it all in camera.

We also learnt how to use a clapper to mark scenes while shooting, I thought this would be a great tool to use. (Even though we were not recording any sound linking to video) We decided to use the clapper to mark all the individual tattoos, for example before recording the clapper would be held in front of the camera and it would say "tattoo 1 / take 1" so that we knew what number tattoo was being filmed straight away when it came to editing. Although it is normally used to link sound to video via the spike in audio that the clapper makes we decided to use it purely to label each shot for the editor.