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  • Q&A Session

    Posted by Neal Klaeser on April 20, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    I am going to be shooting a single person seminar tomorrow with two cameras an was wondering how some of you handle Q&A sessions. The presenter will have a presentation and after will ask for questions from the audience. I have read that people will hand around a hand held microphone or they will set-up a microphone on a stand and have people approach the mic and ask questions. Are there any other ideas that have worked for other people? I believe that the hospital that I am shooting the video at has a hand held microphone but I am not sure I can get access to an output to record.

    Chris Tompkins replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Chris Tompkins

    April 20, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    Do you have mics?
    Is there house audio?
    We’d tap into the house audio if available.

    Do you have a sound tech on the job? Running a mixer?

    Wireless lav on presenter.
    Wireless Handheld on stand or passed around for Audience.

    The hard part is getting all questions using the mic.

    Chris Tompkins
    Video Atlanta LLC

  • Neal Klaeser

    April 20, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    I asked the person in charge of the seminar and they where not sure if the room had a mixer to get a feed from and they only have one hand-held wireless microphone.

    I plan on putting a wireless on the presenter and will decide whether we pass around the wireless microphone that I have that will go directly into the camera and not over the PA or just put a microphone on a stand. The people will probably be tapping the hand-held that I give them because they will not hear it over the PA system.

  • Chris Tompkins

    April 21, 2011 at 10:59 am

    In the past I have taped a wireless lav to a handheld…

    If they have house sound, that would be the best. But they can screwup too.

    Chris Tompkins
    Video Atlanta LLC

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