[Kimberly Behzadi]

I can’t say where exactly I’m going to be filming because there will be multiple shoots throughout the semester. A lot of the shoots will be indoors and nothing is “designed’ to be a film set.

The shotgun mic would always be on a boom pole and I’ll always have a boom operator with me.

Audio is a huge issue with our films on campus. We are always told not to rely on a microphone that just “sits” on the camera. So I wanted a second microphone, especially for recording dialogue.

[Kimberly Behzadi]

First,

Thank you SO much Mr. Ford! Your tutorial was extremely helpful. Our Cinema & Screen Studies department is very new at school, so audio tutorials like these are extremely beneficial.

In your post you said:
You have an consumer unbalanced mic that you’re trying to use with a balanced professional XLR input.

Can you explain what that means? I don’t really know what “balanced’ or “unbalanced” means.

Can you make any suggestions for a shotgun microphone that would work well with the SONY HVR-A1U?

Thanks again!
Kimberly Behzadi