The days I recorded all the things

As outlined in the previous post, for this first exercise I have needed some foley recordings and I did this in two stages. First I used the studio in the protools room. For the footsteps I used a tray of dirt which had a slab of paving stone layed over it. As I also previously mentioned we couldn't get the television to work so to try and get the footsteps in time, one person sat at the computer and oved their hand in time to the footsteps so the other could step intime to that. This was somewhat successful as the footsteps weren't completley out of time but it needed some youch up in the edit. For the chopping board I used a piece of wood and a piece of metal that I found in the 'box of tricks' in the corner of the studio. I used thesame technique as with the footsteps to try and get them in time but again they were slightly off so needed to be editied. Sounds I also got in the studio were of when The character cuts himself. A variety of exclamations. I also got some breathing for the opening shots. The otherthings that icouldn't get in the studio were either done outside or in my kitchen. I wanted to try the technique of recording atmos with two tie clip mics. I wanted to use this for the shot of walking through the city. Therefore I attacked the mics t the collor of my jacket and walked through sheffeild centre. Unfortunatley for me this didn't work as well as I had hoped. the sound wasn't dense enough to fit with the scene which looks crowded and noise and the recording I got didn't have enough going on in it. For the sound effects that were used in the kitchen I used my kitchen. This is includes the fridge, when he's moving thigs around on the worktop, the tap and walking across the floor. For this I simply recreated the sounds by doing what I saw on the screen. With the help of Stephen who held the mic. I found recording the foley a lot of fun and also I think it was a successful process in term of getting what I needed for the exercise.