PPECS XLR's are unreliable. seriously.

Alright so Becca, Ellis and I shot 2 scenes this weekend. Luckily they aren't dialogue intensive scenes because guess who has terrible audio? We do! That's right. The XLR that went from the mic into the mix pre was good, which means Ellis heard good sound. However the XLR that went from the mix pre into the camera, was bad. So we got terrible audio that we didn't know about until we looked at the footage. So beware, even if youre racing the sun for sunlight, make sure you test your audio. It was a silly mistake we made, but it cost us. Now we'll ADR the scenes.

Doorknob Weekend Recap and Important Realization

Hey All,
So this weekend seems to have been a big weekend for everyone, shooting their doorknobs. Our group, (Alyssa, Matt, and I) did really well overall with our shoots. Saturday we really lucked out with the weather in the afternoon and got one out of our two outdoor scenes completed. Today we shot the opening and ending scenes, which was actually really good because of the weather.

We did run into a small glitch though concerning audio for one scene. For some reason our mic wasn't working in the beginning, we caught it right away thankfully, and were able to fix it. This does bring up a really important point. A lot of the xlrs from ppecks don't seem to work or are bad. There is a way to check this though BEFORE leaving ppecks. They have an xlr tester on the desk by the center computer, and its actually a really good idea to check the cables this way so that when your on set and ready to start shooting you don't realize that the cable is bad and you won't have any audio.