During our shoot for the therapist session, we were using a Zoom H5 and shotgun mic to record sync sound of dialogue between the patient and therapist. All of the patient's lines were recorded, while some of the therapist's were dubbed in later (since he is off-screen throughout most of the scene). This process mostly went ahead without incident; that was until around three-quarters of the way through our recordings, at which point we encountered and unusual problem with the equipment. The Zoom H5 was connected to the mic via an XLR lead. Some component involved in this process started to produce a strange electrical buzzing sound; one that was very audible on any recordings we tried to take. We were unsure what may have been causing this issue. We initially though that the zoom may have been picking up to kind of interference, but we couldn't find anything that could have been causing such a thing to happen. We determined that there was some kind of issue with the way the pins in the XLR cable were connecting the microphone and the Zoom together; but were unable to determine the exact source of the problem. We were forced to report the issue to the Creative Media Centre, who were likewise stumped by the issue. To compromise, they replaced our equipment with some functioning ones; swapping out the memory card so that we could keep our recordings. This seemed to solve the issue.
This was not an eventuality we foresaw. Of course, faulty equipment is not always something that can be predicted; especially considering that the equipment had been functioning without any issues for a majority of the shoot. Thankfully, in this case, we were able to replace the faulty equipment and continue as normal without any loss of data.
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