Sound Recording in Low Budget Productions

The Importance of Sound

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Amerikanistik), course: American Culture, language: English, abstract: the aim of this paper is to point out how a movie can be provided with the best sound possible under the worst circumstances imaginable: next to no money available and pressure from all sides, including but not limited to: the director, schedule and the director of photography, just to name a few. By doing so, I am going to divide my paper basically into three main parts. At first, I want to explain why sound is so important, but also why it is so underrated (which goes hand in hand, as can be seen in the following). After that I am going to get right in to the practical aspect of sound recording, for example by pointing out the proper equipment. I am going to conclude this paper by talking about the various ways to record the sound for a movie.