Problems I had on treks one and two.

Throughout my first two treks on this project I experienced two problematic situations. The first one was weather conditions not being vary cooperative. The second problem was trying to find a way to get good audio sounds while avoiding recording common talking at the skate park.
As far as weather conditions, I live in Wisconsin and we have this saying here that goes like this, “If you don’t like the weather wait five minutes and it will change.” I had a couple of days shooting video where it would rain on and off about every half hour. This caused problems with having a consistent gray cement tone to my footage. When it would rain I would be forced to wait for the rain to dry up. Waiting for the rain to dry up also took longer than it would in the summer months. Also with the seasons changing here the weather caused the leaves to change colors. The color change was great but as we all know the color change is followed by the leaves falling off of the trees. Many times I had to bring a broom to sweep out the leaves in the skate park.
The problem of avoiding recording conversations was also prominent on particularly busy days at the skate park. I wanted to capture the sound of skateboard wheels shrieking across a tail slide, the crisp snap of an ollie and trucks grinding coping. This problem would not have been so bad if the conversations were anywhere near G-Rated. Kids like to talk about things they would never say in front of their parents I guess is what Im saying. This problem caused me to resort to picking out little bits of recordings and piecing them together as apposed to having long takes of ambient sound.