Methods to Capturing Sound

We visited the Clapham Learning Centre to test all the different equipment that we could use for filming our interview.

Two members of our group testing out the standard microphone. From this we found that using it would alter the layout of our interview and is more likely to have inconsistencies in the sound level than using an indoor foam covered boom pole.

 Three of the group testing the mini clip-on microphone. This would be good a choice to have to record a double of the audio that we get from using the boom pole. The problems with this method are that it picks up a large amount of unwanted sounds from its surroundings and has a very short life span and will require a lot of spare batteries. However, will still use this as our back-up source.

The wireless clip-on microphone kit that is a possibility for using for our interview. This is just as good as the above, but we feel that there would be no point to having a wireless set, when using one with wires would cause no problems for our interviews.

This is the Marantz that we have chosen to be our primary way to capture our sound. Its good because it can capture a large amount of sound whilst maintaining a good battery life and producing very clear, high quality recordings.