Sound Recording for a 4Docs entry

Sara Barbas is a freelance animator and is studying for an MA in Scriptwriting at Bath Spa Uni - she decided to enter the '4Docs' documentary competition - she put a call out for crew so I decided to lend a hand with the Sound Recording...

The documentary is on little things we can all do to recycle - so we visited a guy who makes his own organic compost, interviewed him in his conservatory and then filmed him working in the garden. I used a 416 and Boom for all of the sound and was able to get really good clean sound on all of the takes. Next up was a spanish girl who reuses water on her plants - again not a challenging scenario technically - but good experience of bread and butter sound recording work and of working in a similar way to a news gathering team.

For the finished film I also worked with a good mate of mine to write, produce and perform the music for the doc. Sara wanted a 'Brazilian' feel so we put our heads together in his studio and came up with the piece of music that you her at the end of the doc. enjoy !

http://www.4docs.org.uk/competition/view/277/Little+Green+Gestures