We stopped in a Barnes & Noble while recording sound. Our first thought was to get sound from the cafe which was sure to be filled with different people there for different reason.
While we recorded, we got the babble of people talking and the music of the store playing faintly in the background. The loudest thing I could hear, though, was the crinkle of a woman's wrapper as she ate her food from Starbucks.
We heard the scratch of metal chairs against the tiled floor and the cash register making noises while baristas took orders.
We kept moving around the store and I noticed how our footsteps changed based on where we walked. There was the obvious difference between our shoes tapping on the tiled sections and those same steps thumping quietly on the rest of the carpeted floor. But the center of the store was more interesting. It includes a raised platform and out feet thumped again, but it was deeper and much louder, almost like we were taking muffled steps along a boardwalk. It was one of my favorite sounds that we found.
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