Sound Recce Report

LOCATION 
CITY LODGINGS, SNIG HILL
SHEFFIELD 
S3 8NB 


The shoot for our film will take place in apartments in the city centre of Sheffield. When I did the location recce, there was a few issues that I found and I needed to rectify for the actual shoot. 

The apartments were situated next to a very busy road and I found that the windows were very thin and I was picking up a lot of sound from the traffic. I decided that a good way to combat this would be to tape up cushions to the windows and also take the curtains up, this was to try and keep as much sound out as possible. I found that this had a massive impact and the noise from outside was blocked out. I also suggested that we shoot later at night as the roads would be less busy. 

The room its self was fairly small and I found that there was very little reverb picked up, I think acoustics of this room will be very good to work with. The living room has wood flooring, this could be a slight issue as it could cause creaking underfoot. In terms of rectifying the problem, we will be dressing the room up with plastic sheets this means I put a softer material under, taking away any noise. The sound of the plastic may also be in issue, I think the best way to make sure it doesn't make to much noise would rely on the actors clothes being fairly soft, this would help deter much of the rustling sound. 

I was also worried due to it being apartments I would pick up sound from other apartments, at the point of the recce I found that I didn't pick up any sound from neighbours, this might be an issue when we actually shoot though, I think that If I use radio microphones this could cancel out those sounds, due to it being tucked away on the actors. 

Due to the room being small I won't have a lot of room to work with, which means that radio microphones will most likely have to used.