Digital News: Studio Shoot (Take 2)

After looking at the footage for the studio shoot, we realised that the sound quality wasn't very good. We only used the zoom, as we felt confident that the sound quality would be good, having had good experiences with it on previous shoots. However, there was a rattly sound in the background which meant that the audio was unusable. In reflection, we shouldn't have just relied on the zoom and should have backed it up with a clip mic. Re-doing the shoot today has allowed us to get a little more experience with the lighting equipment and we were quite surprised as to how quickly we were able to set it up, with the knowledge from yesterdays shoot. The lighting was relatively simple, however, we did have some guidance and help from Ferg when playing around with some of the settings on the camera in order to get the professional studio look we were after. The filming itself was very successful. We spent a lot of time with the sound, adjusting the levels to make sure it wasn't peaking and that it was clear. Overall, the quality of sound was much better and I feel like we have learned from the previous shoot with only the zoom for sound.