Interview Sound Ideas

After getting out some sound equipment out and testing between different microphones and different set ups, I've decided to go with lapel mics the reason for this being I feel I will get a much clearer sound as it will be right up near to his mouth. 

I think there are a lot more pros with using a lapel mic for this, as I we will be able to put it through the camera and It shouldn't pick up any unwanted sounds as it will have his jumper to muffle the sound. 

Discussion of Music

After a discussion on the sound design and whether or not we want music we have decided that we want to go with some music, the reasons behind this are because we feel that Ruben himself is massive music fan and the sounds that we will use will try to reflect his calm persona and also the rhythm he uses when boxing. 

The songs we have decided to go with are: 

Dashade: "90's Old School Hip-hop-Sample Beat 127 Piano Boombap"
Darius Marian: Asap Rocky- "Ghetto Symphony Instrumental Remix"
Kasim Keto - "Through"
Hans Zimmer - "Time (Inception OST - Cover)" 

Ricky Hatton: The Road to Redemption

I have been looking at another boxing documentary, this time it follows the story of Ricky Hatton, I feel that this one is quite important for ideas towards ours, the reason being I feel that our documentary is going to be a bit of a redemption story. Due to Ruben being cheated out of his final and his story being that he still wants to carry on, I feel I can find some similarities and gain some ideas from this. 
This is also a very personal account of Ricky Hatton which is hopefully something we can get from Ruben. 

Floyd Mayweather

I have also looked a T.V special on boxer; Floyd Mayweather, this has given me a lot of ideas in terms of interviews and the way the approach of this is fairly typical of a boxing documentary, in the way that it is a bit flash and how it focuses on Floyd Mayweathers confident persona. I would like to think that we could do something a little bit different as Ruben is very different from your average boxer, I do like the idea that it is shot in Floyd Mayweather's house. 

Life and Death Row

To get inspired I have been watching a variety of different documentaries, by watching them it also helps me to understand how they would have done the sound recording, Life and Death row is a little bit reflexive in its approach to documentary, in that you get to see the inmates take off their microphones, by doing this it gives and insight into how the documentary is being made, I think this is something that we could bring into our own documentary.