Audio is the single most reason why a film submission will not score high with our judges. Sound is a vibration, or a wave. And just like a wave that breaks towards the sand, sound gets smaller the further away it travels from the source. The louder the sound, the bigger its wave will be. The bigger the wave, the further it will travel. Apply this concept when you begin recording your audio for your film by creating sound waves that will reach your microphone consistently and smoothly. For example, louder sounds close to a microphone will produce hurricane force waves that distort your audio, while speaking too softly or having the microphone too far away from the source of sound will produce low or inaudible recording.