I haven’t done much preparing for the camp this week, but next week I have some goals I want to achieve. This week I got some field recordings on a bike path nearby my house at 11 am, 2 pm, and 6 pm. I want to put these recordings together to create a roughly 3-minute soundscape. I will finish the mix of the soundscape by tonight so that this weekend when I am free I can plan out the video for the camp. I also just got done booking a meeting with Dr. Wolek to help me come up with a way to record audio and video. Before the meeting, I will check the sound quality of my camera to see if it is good enough. I do not want to use the in-camera microphone but if it is a last resort I want to prepare myself for the quality. A good idea that I might do instead is rent a camera from the library at Stetson and use that since I know that has a 3.5mm headphone jack and use the wireless mics that I used in my senior project. I might use those mics since they are really sensitive and can pick up a lot. The only drawback that I can see is that they are wireless and I need to be aware of their battery life. I am not sure what the best option will be, but hopefully, after talking to Dr. Wolek I will know the best option.
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Glad to read you are thinking this through. Since we will be doing some field recording with the kids, it might be as simplest to introduce some sync points into the recordings. If we simply tap the mic used by a kid on camera, you could then use that as a your point of sync. We would just want to be careful not to over do it.
The RODE wireless system has really good battery life. It all charges via USB, so you would just need to plug it in at night.
I look forward to meeting with you today and discussing these options! We’ll also need to go over the schedule, but perhaps that can be another meeting later in the week with Kelly.