Sound recording

Well I wasn't expecting to find sound recording so difficult, I spent a a few hours in town trying to record some background crowds but I was overwhelmed with how much sounds the microphone picked up. I went into the studios at uni and managed to isolate myself so I could get some good footstep noises, felt like a fool doing it but the result wasn't too bad. I think I'm going to ask certain shops to allow me record some interior noises. In an ideal world if I could go into a casino and record the interior noises that would be ideal for my animatic. I have also asked my flatmates to hopefully provide some grunting noises and some other general foley to help out. I think I will end up using a little bit of online sourced sounds but as long as I have a few sounds I have recorded myself, the overall animatic will be successful.