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[Brian Reynolds]

If you are using a shotgun mic, you do have a pole and boom operator?
Going into a difficult location (as you have experienced in the past) with NON pro gear and minimal time to prep it is asking a lot…..

[Clyde Villegas]

The doctor that I’ll shoot will be sitting all the time on a chair so I’ll just put the boom on a c-stand. No need for an operator to follow her.

I could have simply hired an audio guy (with own equipment) to handle this but budget is a major consideration. I have to make this work even with a super low budget (they had the bulk of the budget in post because the video’s heavy in motion graphics and animation). My plan is when things go from bad to worse, I’ll just have to look for better rooms to shoot (within the building). I will also bring in a pro lav mic as backup. Will also consider buying an H5.

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