On Location Recording

With the film rotating around a large set of interviews, we found ourselves with a busy filming schedule of on location recording. Trying to create as many options and contingencies as possible, we tried to record each interviewee with lapel microphones, as well as boom mic and camera audio as a fall-back. Dealing with gear failings and production issues, we were unable to use lapel audio for each of our interviews, making our backup sources invaluable.

Editing

Post production started with creating an appropriately organised session, pulling apart overlapping audio clips and separating different speakers and rooms to be processed separately.

With the fast cuts between many speakers that the structure of the film relies on, creating space for each voice without obstructions of one another was vital to keeping the production clean before processing our tracks.

Mixing

With so many different spaces in the documentary, processing each separately and still sitting together cohesively was the main challenge of mixing the project.

As we included audio from phone footage and interviews in noisy spaces, reducing noise and treating voices to cut through and sit comfortably above the music was our focus, while still letting the compositions bring a positive energy and fun vibe to the project as they were written to.