Recording in the studio

I have now been into the studios several time both with classes and on my own and have recorded one song which still need a little work but is getting there this will be a simple description of how i went about recording the instruments and then how i EQed paned Quanitized if necessary i.e. for midi tracks.
To begin with it is always a good idea to turn on all the desk equipment, whilst it is turning on; then i set up the microphones on the drum kit guitar bass and any other instrument that would be good to record as a beginning mix; if there is a keyboard it is better to DI two channels on for left and right. Once you have all the Mic's set up and you have labeled then correctly into the desk. then you can set up the recording session in pro tools set up a head phone mix then; invite the band in and record enable the tracks and let them do a first take.
Once recorded safety all the tracks and allow the band to have a listen; if they are not happy then get them to do another take until they like what they have recorded. Once this is done you can then take each performer on there own and see if they would like to record it again or just to record small sections to over dub.
Once all the Instruments are sounding Good then invite the signer in to have a listen and get him/her to do an initial take as a guide line then you can change the set up of the mic position or anything else, some times a little reverb helps if the singer is slightly out of tune. Then continue recording until the singer plus the band are happy with the outcome; then you can go and record backing vocal.
Once you have done this you are prity much done on the whole recording, now its just down to you to either simply add a few tweaks or make a masterpiece out of pure crap.
first edit the drum kit maybe a compressor on the bass drum with little eq to get a nice sound boost around 150Hz, most tracks will require little or alot of EQ but for each mic placement make sure the track sounds good on its own so you can here it individually and not pick up other instruments which you normally get when recording a session. For the vocals it normally a good idea to to set up an aux track to put the reverb onto which you can then just re root the vocal channels via a bus to the aux track, this will take less of the computer memory and allow you to have better control of the general mix. Once Eq Maybe Amp farmed or any other plug ins you have added or want to add you can do a general mix and see what levels you have.
Instrument i like to keep quite high are the high hat, kick drum and bass guitar. The bass is normally the quietest instrument so it needs more gain than most of the others.
Once you have a mix you can then Begin mastering, so on the master fader its a nice idea to use a little compression to make it sound tight. Then you can Turn up until you can hear the speakers distorting then turn it down so you can no longer going to hear that sound and bounce it down onto a CD as a Wave file. Then you can go into sound forge and tweak it some more to get an end resulting song.

Mise-en-scene

The Blocking in this film is quite important; each character has a different relationship with one another, however the Presenters character is Platonic and is able to mingle equally with each character.
The different sets change the emotions of the characters, i.e. when the contestants are in their dressing rooms. they are alot more open with their feelings (they seem to come out of the shell)
But when they are in front of each other they are quite shy.
The Camera placement in this film will be very revealing and in your face not at all suttel. we want to get out every last emotion and action that we can, we want to protrude into these people's life's.
The location is hope to film in will give me the opportunity to film between the stage/ set and the audience. This will allow me to have a crowd in the stalls and a sense of realism, i.e. we will see people holding up signs to encourage the crowd 'boo' 'clap' etc.
I hope to use a camera with a 15mm lens to give me a nice open feel to the stage so you can see everything. But for the interviews of the contestants maybe a 35 o even a 50mm lens to get good portrait shots.
I want the composition quite minimal so that all the viewers attention is on the contestants. The camera movements will not be very drastic, maybe a few pans as the presenter walks around the stage or maybe i might like the camera to follow him at all times. over the shoulder for the interviews in the dressing rooms maybe, but am not sure until i start shooting.
I want to cover most of the set/stage most of the time apart from the odd close up on each character.
Set colour in this film will be quite vibrant, maybe some lights etc but each character has their own characterising colour, i.e. Caroline for intense must be quite dull apart from the bright head banner .
Depth of the shots will be created by different shades of colours adding more layers to the shots. i hope to light the set to give different moods. but as the space is completely blacked out from outside light it will give me a great atmosphere for what ever the time of day i decide to shoot in.
The rhythm is going to be quite bounce i.e. if some one feels a little low the presenter tries to comfort them and then get them back on with the game.
we see the film mainly one point of view the camera and there for the viewers however we also see alot thought the eye of the presenter and occasionally the contestants.
Most of the sounds you will hear will be diagetic however these maybe over dubbed to add clarity. and some possible Foley in which case there will be aspects of non diegetic.
Their will be some soundtrack to kick off and end the show as well as voice overs by the presenter. most of the sound will be objective. and again form the audiences point of view.