Over the weekend from the 12th to the 14th I worked as a sound recordist for a documentary about non-binary people with a student from LCF, each day we visited a different person and talked about their journey of self discovery, what their daily lives are like and what it is like to be non-binary. For the production I rented out some equipment from the ORB at LCC, this included a sound kit (zoom h4n, rode ntg 2 etc.), a sennheiser radio mic kit, and a boom pole. After the first day I found that all I really needed was the radio microphone and the zoom h4n, the way the documentary was going to be edited was the only audio would be the interview itself and so I quickly realised there was no need to lug all that equipment around. In working on this project there was certainly a confidence boost however I also found out what I didn’t know, or rather what I needed more experience in. For example, I understood that I didn’t really know what I would need to do when setting levels, or in the editing stage how much noise reduction is appropriate. I suppose this shows my naivete in just assuming all I’d need to do is bring the mics and press record, I wonder though if these things I learn by working with those more experienced than me and just by doing or if I have to be actively taught. The atmosphere was definitely less professional than sets I’d been on before, not that it was unprofessional but because it was two rather inexperienced students it has more of the feeling of mates hanging out (which, in a way, it was) and I imagine that this won’t be what it is like on any future projects but as an introduction to how things might be it wasn’t a terrible start