[Stan Welks]

Thank you to everyone for your time and info!!!!

[Stan Welks]

1.) I might record using a lav connected to my shirt. Would I record room tone by just standing there for 30 secs and not making any noise while still wearing the lav?

2.) “This way, the editor can introduce the BG noise slowly and make it less obvious.”

How would/could the editor make it “less obvious?”

Thanks!

[Stan Welks]

1. Will using headphones plugged into the camera help with hearing these sounds you speak of? Or without a mixer to filter off the lows do I have to wait until I view/listen to it on my computer?

2. What types of sounds will a low-cut filter on a mixer eliminate? ex: Someone in my building who slams a door, someone banging on a wall somewhere, someone walking real loud on the floor above me?

Thanks!

[Stan Welks]

Thanks so much for taking your time to respond.

– I will mostly be the only person on the podcast, however, there may be times when I might have someone else on it as well.
– I have access to an Arri lighting kit (not sure of the model, it was around $3,500) that has at least four lights (not sure what types of bulbs)
– I have access to a soft box.
– The room I am shooting in does not have much daylight.

1. Does any of the info I provided make any difference with regards to your recommendations?

2. I’m trying to determine whether it is even feasible to do this in my apartment. Will being 3-4 ft from the wall be sufficient? Is there a minimum distance that I need to realistically be?

3. I do not have much daylight in the room. I am not sure what types of bulbs the Arri kit currently has. Will it make much difference since I do not have much daylight in the room?

Thanks again!

[Stan Welks]

Thanks so much for your replies. I wasn’t sure if one worked better generally than the other. I will be doing this in my apartment, so come to think of it, I am guess the boom will pick up other random sounds that may occur in the building.

[Stan Welks]

Hi David,

1.) I do have carpet. Does this mean I will not need them on the floor?

2.) Is the goal to cover as much wall as possible out of camera range where I am recording audio?

3.) In general, how far should the sound blankets be spread on the walls away from the source of the audio?

Thanks!!!

[Stan Welks]

So if I understand correctly, a series of steps might go like this:

1. Select a name
2. Get a lawyer to search and secure it in various markets
3. Register the domain
4. Develop a logo and it will automatically be copyrighted (no lawyers involved)

Questions:
1.) You said:
“Your logo is your trademark so that’s automatically copyrighted, but the onus is on you to protect it.”

What do you mean by “protect it?” Do you mean protect if someone challenges you or is there some proactive strategy?

2.) You said:
“…and immediately get a tax number (or whatever in your province/state) and you’re set in a basic way. ”

What is a tax number? Why would I look into this?

3.) If someone challenges you, it’s dismissed fairly quickly if you can provide any docs that support you registered the name.

Do you mean domain name, or registering it through a lawyer?

Thanks!!!!

[Stan Welks]

I am really new to all of this, so sorry for having to ask:

1. When you say “sound blankets”
are these special blankets for this specific purpose?

2. What is a “moving pads?”

Thanks!