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Bare Minimum Config for Interviews
Newbie questions sorry….
Should I:
a) Simultaneoulsy mount a shotgun on the shoe of my DVX *and* record with a lav?
b ) Is it possible to both hold a shotgun mike and film with the camera at the same time and forget the lav? (‘fraid I don’t have a boom op!)
I’m doing informal interviews with musicians. I’d like to keep things as simple as possible.
Thanks
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5 Replies
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Do you have access to a c-stand? Your best bet would be to mount the shotgun above your interviewees as close as you can w/o busting frame.
As for your option “b”, you could always juggle the mike & camera duties, but that sounds like a recipe for disaster. Better off mounting it to your camera, or back to my first idea.
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thanks for your input frosch
@ c-stand: i was hoping to maybe not have them nailed to their seats :-/
@ juggling duties: what you mean putting the camera on the tripod and then the mic on a stand? (i’m inferring that one can’t hold a shotgun *and* point the camera feasibly)
i think i may have to try a lav/shotgun-mic-mounted on camera combo.
do you happen to know if a sennheiser me66 will protrude in front of the camera if mounted on top?
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Try your setup before you go out with it and you will see the problems of placing the shotgun on camera. Even a shotgun should be placed as close to talents mouth as possible. And a shotgun might not be the best possible choice for shooting interiors, too much reflections off hard surfaces
good luck
Tom -
thanks tom.
next question then!
can you reccommend a directional mic i could mount on the camera to double up with a lav?
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IMO a directional mic on the camera is fairly worthless. Much better with the c-stand approach. Or if you don’t want to be nailed down, hire someone to boom. Without good sound it’s kind of a pointless exercise anyway.
-Noah
Noah’s DVX100 and FCP DVD:
http://www.callboxlive.com
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