ABSTRACT
The most common problems with location sound recordings are noisy backgrounds, such as people talking or moving around, traffic, dogs barking, sirens going off and aircraft overhead. The noise floor is the sound we hear in a room or outside on location that is outside of our control. There are ways to work with poorly recorded sound in post-production, but none of them will give the quality could have achieved with properly recorded dialogue. The goal of sound design for the film is to help pull the audience into the story and that becomes harder when the production track sounds bad. The most natural sound is recorded with a boom microphone. It'll pick up the dialogue and also some of the ambience of the location.
