I am going to record an Opera-Singer for a surrealistic short-film a friend of me was shooting earlier this year. After the recording i am trying to move her voice in postproduction trough a 3-Dimensional space fitting to the pictures.
Things to think about:
What is the perfect microphone Setup?
As 3D sound tools use mono-sources (or render stereofiles down to mono), i am aiming for a simple big membrane setup. The situation doesn`t allow me to visit a proper recording room, so i am going for a little bit of an DIY approach. Some Rugs and blankets will be used to treat the room for achieving the clearest signal possible.
The scene:
As seen in the picture the scene starts in a (virtual) room
How to move the object?
I spent a long time searching for the perfect tool to move the voice through the percepted virtual 3D-Space AND keep the file in stereo as the movie will only be mixed down in stereo. In all the tests i did the Plug-In “DearVR Micro” from DearVr in collaboration with Sennheiser did in my point of view th best job (and it`s for free yey!).
The recording took place in an (as mentioned above) empty, roughly 20m2 big room. As you probably can imagine the reverberation was pretty huge, so i had a little bit of an “MacGyver” – attempt to get a clean recording. With the help of 6 tripods, 4 bamboo sticks and loads of rugs an other textil i created a capsule and achieved some honestly not too bad sound. In thoughts of my hopefully future career i wont show a picture.
As the record worked well, i will move on to the post processing. Stay tuned!
