In preparation for the up-and-coming post-production for Where The Sea Doesn’t Follow I wanted to retrieve as many location field recordings as possible. Despite not yet being on set, I have undergone several meetings with the crew regarding the quality of recordings for dialogue. However, I felt my work quality could be enhanced if I went and received ambiences and Background recordings myself.
With that in mind, I took myself to Cleethorpes – a northern seaside town. One of the main locations of the film is set in a seaside town. Cleethorpes mirrored this perfectly and became a good place to begin my recording.
I took the 3:1 recording approach to ensure I had fully surrounded recordings. When mixing Where The Sea Doesn’t Follow I hope to mix this in 5:1 so it helped to have multidirectional recordings in advance.
I felt that the recording day was really successful and will show great benefit for the future post-production sound on this project. I opened my eyes to location recording and it aided me towards a sonically accurate sound design. Upon reflection, I wish I had dented his for more of the locations within the film. Moving forward with this in mind I hope to try and find some more location recordings in order to reach that high-quality piece of work.
