Kai Paquin - Sound Blog

Like I mentioned in my previous post a  few questions have been bubbling in my mind What is my thesis statement as a recordist? Why do I pick the things I want to record? How do I approach recordings? What are the things I want to keep improving on? I've been feeling a little stuck with my goals lately and wanted to reassess my values and intentions moving forward. I'm not sure how concrete the rest of the people who responded in their responses are, but I find my approach and values change quite a bit over time. Here's where I think I'm at right now Both my personal library and my general SFX library feel overwhelmingly large and it's really changed my outlook about consuming. When my collection was small, I was really hungry and always wanted to be producing more to fill out what I didn't have and was consumed with amassing bulk. Now that I'm at a point where I have more content than I have time to organize, I've slowed down a lot as a recordist. Some

A few questions crossing my mind a lot lately are: What is my thesis statement as a recordist? Why do I pick the things I want to record? How do I approach recordings? What are the things I want to keep improving on? I posed one of these questions to the field recording slack because sometimes the questions you pose for yourself are most easily answered by listening to others and seeing reflections from what they say. What's your approach to recording? I'm curious how different people here think about recording something and what their end goal is. For instance, you find some interesting sound while messing around and you realize this is your one shot to capture it. You have every tool in your arsenal, so what tools do you pick and what do you want to express in your performances. When do you start rolling and when do you cut? I'll take a stab at answering my own question in a follow up post , but for now I wanted to preserve these  really insightful responses for future re