As part of Unit 5, we had to record our own ADR and Foley sound for our short chase scene film. Today in class we used the Zoom H6 handy recorder, we used this to capture the audio needed for our film. We worked in pairs to record sounds such as the opening and closing of doors, footsteps, breathing, dialogue and wild tracks. The Zoom was quite simple to use once taught how it works. To turn it on you hold and slide the power button and the small screen should come on. On the screen, it will show the input levels of each of the different channels this will show whether the audio is too loud or not picking it up at all. You can tell this as if the input level goes into the red than its too loud and if it doesn’t go up at all than the mic isn’t picking up th sound. When recording the sound you want it in the yellow/orange to get the input level. We used a stereo field microphone connected to the top of the zoom, using the left and right inputs. With this, you have the stereo control that is used to adjust how much audio is recorded. This mic allowed us to pick up audio without too much background noise as its a unidirectional condenser microphone. When used outside in windy conditions you may use a muffler to cancel out any unwanted noise from the wind and capture clearer audio. We also used the Zoom in the audio booth when recording the dialogue.
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