Description

Recording Polaroid camera shutter sounds

Back in California, I worked a few days on a film set as the boom operator. The director of the project loved taking photos with his Polaroid One600 Classic Instant Camera of the cast and crew during the long shoot days.

On our last day of the shoot, I asked if I could borrow the camera to capture foley sounds of the polaroid camera. If you’ve ever shot a photo with this type of camera then you know how gratifying it is to press the shutter button and have the instant image eject into your hands. While they are fun cameras for nostalgic reasons, unfortunately, they are expensive to use!

Equipment used for this foley recording…

I came prepared with 3 different microphones to capture these sounds. With my Rode NTG4+, the Audio Technica (both are Mono Mics), and the Zoom H6 (Stereo) I was able to have 3 sound variations which gives you more options as well! All these sounds are recorded in 96/24 and have not been manipulated.