I watched my clip after recording footstep sounds and felt I should have recorded my atmos sounds first. To not only help the foley artist who was doing it but also for me to not nitpick my sounds.
I watched the clip back and looked at my initial sound plan and realised it was mainly three-ish atmospheres. The initial village outside the pharmacy. The close up against the wall with the missing posters. Then the varying changes in the pharmacy. I really needed some isolated atmosphere and felt it was almost impossible to record in London so I took a weekend out ton Brighton as it’s where I’m from originally and I know the place well enough that I can cycle outside the city and have no noise pollution.
I rented out the Sennheiser 418 for its stereo recordings with a mid-side polar pattern for the lovely stereo sounds I was promised to receive. I also decided to use the Sound Devices 633 as previously the other recording box ZOOM F4 had very loud preamps.
The night before I learnt the machines and prepared for the next day. Wired my bags up, scouted locations and made a plan to record. I started with recording sounds of the ocean at low tide, I got really close on the rocks to the ocean holding my mic stand. I wanted to also get these recordings to use for experiments as Tim spoke about recording at 192khz and reducing the octave for frequencies we wouldn’t normally hear for sound design. I will follow up with a blog post after I’ve done this well as I’m really interested.
I then cycled up to a small farm area with a plot of green land and set up my mic and started recording, I found that even though I was more than a mile away I could pick up road sounds. I felt really frustrated, I recorded anyway and decided to keep heading away from roads. I walk and arrived near another farm around the university of Sussex. I pushed the gate and heard a really creaky horrible metal sound and decided to record it again at 192khz for experiments later. It sounded like the perfect scary movie metal gate.
I went up the hill and pointed the mic towards the scenery and managed to find a spot without any noise pollution (fingers crossed) I waited until planes drove past and set my timing correctly, even sometimes lowering the mic to reduce the spread and pointing away from roads, I figured this out after subtly even more than a few miles away still hearing the road traffic.
I haven’t yet put the atmospheres into my clip but the process will begin tomorrow most likely.