'Tribulation' 60 minute experimental drama shot in 6 days on HDV. Director Christian Barbe. Production company National Film & television School. Visit the NFTS Tribulation webpage. Recording sound on 'Tribulation' presented me with a number of technical & practical problems. To begin with the entire film was improvised (in Spanish) and once filming commenced we would turn over for an hour, change tapes and then continue to film for two or three more hours. I was also told from the start that the production could not afford to fly the actors back to the UK for any ADR. Each scene was covered by two roaming cameras shooting simultaneously on zoom lenses using extreme wides and tights (so I never had a chance to get in with a boom). In addition personal radio mics could only be used on a couple of occasions due the number of scenes involving nudity and liberal amounts of water throwing. Although the sound was almost always being compromised by the nature of the shoot I'm very pleased with our end results. The sound was able to match the ambience of the locations and help contribute to the raw nature of this film. Stephan (from the NFTS) & I setting up the plant mics for the woods location. When placing radio mics on the artists I used COS11s with Rycote stickies and undercovers. These worked really well and I would often live mix the radios with a little level from our planted boom microphones in order to give the sound some lively ambience. My sound trolley, originally designed by Peter Glossop. Previously owned by sound mixers David Hildyard & Tim Blackham. Stefan operating an 816 while holding up two Audio Ltd receivers taped to a boom pole to get reception for this scene. Christian Barbe consults the actors before our first scene. Due to the level of background noise from a nearby waterfall we used radio mics on each actor and split the tracks. Can you spot the mkh60 in the tree? We planted 3 boom microphones and 1 radio mic to cover the action for this 4 hour scene. Back to Homepage