Capturing Sounds for Film

     Sound is so important for film. Without it storytelling would be very difficult. Not only can sound make a video good, it can also ruin it. Whenever you can your best bet for good audio would be to hire a good audio technician. Not everyone has a big budget though, so the next best thing is to capture it yourself! When recording your own audio it is important to remember that there are three types. Transient Sound is abrupt sounds that start and stop almost instantaneously like a gunshot or a plate shattering. Evolving sounds are sounds that are not abrupt and fade in and out. Third is speech, it tells the story, and helps anticipate action. 

    When recording it is realizing how important an action is will benefit your videos audio track. Recording distant sounds make them less important as closer up makes them more of a focal point. There are three perspectives you can remember to help with this close, medium, and distant these help you match up your audio with your shot. Mixing these sounds can also have a benefit with fading them between each other to provide a smooth transition. In the way of speech the inclusion of speech can make a scene feel more real, where you can hear everyone's interactions, while including no voice can really make a scene otherworldly and special.

     Since sound plays such a big part in our films, making them sound good is super important.Easily you can confuse your audience with bad sound design, whereas with good sound design you can point every scene in the right direction. When recording my audio I make sure to have a bunch of variations of each sound to work with and really experiment and be free form with it.