Sense of Space - Final Piece!

We've had a very rocky last half of finalising our edit together; at the last minute we decided on cutting out the narration whole together, as we felt it sounded better without it. This was a huge decision to make as the whole half of our final piece was meant to integrate the narration to help move along the narrative.

Recording the sounds went pretty well overall, however it took us a while to gather everything we wanted... We resorted to recording sound effects in bursts, as a majority of the time we were busy/had something scheduled, so we were forced to re-arrange another time to meet to finish off the recordings.

PROBLEMS - We hit a few dead-ends whilst trying to record, some equipment was faulty, for example the headphones and a shotgun mic, this forced us to head all the way back into Uni (stores) to return and swap the equipment. If i have learned one major thing to take on board for future reference, is to test/check the equipment before leaving.

Another problem we came across was only receiving one connecting cable lead with two shotgun mics in-which we intended to record stereo.. this furthermore emphasises the need to check the equipment before leaving.

As for the editing, initially it was a long and steady process of logging every sound we had into Soundtrack Pro (SP) and re-naming them.. this took up heaps of time and forced us to return to editing the following day... Once we had began the editing we knew exactly what we were doing. I began by creating the intro, introducing the egg frying clip whilst layering the running up the stairs clips, brushing teeth, the knock on the door etc. What we had learned in the workshop sessions really helped with the editing we were doing on the day - The shortcuts, editing in fade-ins/face-outs quickly and efficiently, layering and altering the EQ/compressing options.

Personally I feel our final piece was satisfactory, nothing we did was too out of the ordinary or ground-breaking. Perhaps I think we should have kept in the narration because it may have made the whole piece more interesting.