Ryan Elder
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When I say that there is more reverb in the mastershots, what I mean is, is that in the master shots, since there is more head room, I have to boom with the mic further away.
Here is an example of what I mean in this scene here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AApQkNSViGg
Notice how Kirk Douglas’s voice has less reverb in, in the close up shots of him, compared to the master. That’s what I mean about masters being worse when it comes to trying to hide reverb.
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And yes I am also the boom operator as well as the director.
When I say that the reverb is worse in the wider shots, what I mean is, is that in the wider shots, the boom mic is further away cause there is more head room in wider shots, compared to close ups.
So you hear more reverb in the master shots by comparison.
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Okay thanks, I don’t have a super, but I have a hyper. However, a hyper has a less narrow pick up pattern than a super, so would it do a possibly better job than a super?
As for the house of cards idea, I don’t think that will work for me cause when the actors around, and the camera follows them, I think the camera will hit slightly different marks each time and will be hard to reanimate frame to frame.
I don’t have C stands and blankets, I just planned on using light stands for the lights so far and that’s it. I can see about getting C stands, but the shoot is in two days and if I can’t get them in time, not sure. That also goes for helium and balloons, as that was not in the budget either. But I can try.
If none of this becomes available in the next two days, how good would the hyper do in such an environment?
Also, as for a blanket over top of the actor, some of the shots, are from the ground pointed up, kind of like in citizen Kane, while the actors are talking, so I don’t know if that will work. I don’t think I can restory-board the whole thing in two days, cause the DP is away right now, and not back until the shoot day.
So he won’t have time to get use to all new storyboards. This is going to rough I think but I can try to get the C stands and blankets. Blankets aren’t going to help very much I don’t think though, unless I am wrong.
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It would be a real challenge to dub it in and make it look convincing I would think or at least it has been in the past. Maybe a couple of lines are okay, but this is a five minute scene.
We are booming with either a shotgun or hypercardioid.
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Okay thanks, but when you say shots 1 and 2 are unnecessary, and to pick it up at 3, and 4, aren’t 3 and 4 the same shots, since the camera didn’t move? Just making sure what you mean by ‘shot’, since I think shots 3 and 4 are the same as 1 and 2, since the camera didn’t move.
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Okay thanks, sorry. A lot of the advice, has me now asking all these other questions, which is why I asked more. Sorry.
Here is a scene I shot with a gimbal operator, operating the gimbal. It’s just a rough cut, but do you think the gimbal moves look good, for a long lens, or is there too make shake or jitter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqGfDhT1RiQ
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Okay thanks. Sorry about all the questions, I just don’t want to make the right decision with my money and budget, and I start to get nervous and anxious and don’t know what decision to make. But your advice has been very helpful, it’s just I don’t know what to do about the limitations of the suggestions, and perhaps I just have to make a decision on what to do, that will most likely work for me.
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Okay thanks. It’s hard to tell cause in that video the camera is going up and down, rather than gliding smoothly. However, all of his shots are of actors walking, so I don’t know if he is doing this up and down thing intentionally, or if all the figrig movement, looks like that naturally.
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Okay thanks. What do you mean by pseudo wife, and tromboning?
As for adding in the shots I didn’t have, I don’t have those shots, like her eating something or something. I have already stabilized them. For some reason, the camera was on a gimbal, but it kept shaking, I was told the A7s, has a sensor that tends to vibrate sometimes, I will look into that. And yeah the audio of the men talking is not going to be in the final cut.
As for the shots you have suggested to put in, I don’t have those shots, and these are all I have. So is there anything I can do to make it work with what I have?